Bath on the Porch

Who needs a bathtub when you can take a bath in a bucket!

Scott had the idea first and of course Sydney wants to be in the other bucket of soap.

Mission Completion!

Oops!

Let's try a new container...

Why didn't I think of that before?!

This post is kinda silly but I'm so excited about my discovery! I LOVE watermelon but HATE cutting it up because it makes a mess so I rarely buy it. Tonight all my cutting boards were dirty and I was too lazy to wash them so I was hunting for something else and came up with a craft tray. Problem solved! This is my exciting life while the kids are gone and I'm home alone :o)

since vacation...

So what have we been doing since our trip? Apparently not wearing too many clothes as you can see by my pictures :o) Here's a recap...

Eating in a restaurant

She has become quite the purse carrier. Last night I took them on a walk. I put the kids' shoes on first and while I was putting my shoes on Sydney comes in carrying her purse saying she's ready to go. She refuses to leave it at home and is walking down the sidewalk with her purse. Unfortunately she had to go home after a few minutes because she wanted to ride Scott's bike. The whole neighborhood got an earful of that one!

Checking in on Penny, our friends' dog.

Writing about the trip.

Attempting scissors.

Wearing mommy's shoes and wondering when we can go outside again!

Finally a mosquito free morning!

Sand Art

Our big craft this week was making a fish bowl. The kids painted their paper blue and I cut out a bowl shape. They then drew their own fish. Now the fun part came when they got to sprinkle the sand on the bottom of their bowl.

Sydney's is the top bowl and Scott's is below.

So of course we had to play with the colored sand some more...

It took awhile before it sunk in that you were suppose to put the sand ON the glue!

Scott kept putting his glue on the same circle and layering the different colors of sand.

Now she's getting the idea!

Car Town

So the car town is growing! I (almost) finished the airport mat today. Just needs a few more parking spaces and other small details. The "is it done yet" questions wouldn't stop so I gave up and let Scott play. I now have 2 more mats to go and the town is complete!

So far Scott has been taking Daddy to the airport...

Even Ally is fond of the new mat :o)

One fish, two fish

Meet the new additions to our family: Goldfish and Goldfish. Yes those are their names. We took a trip to the pet store a couple of weeks ago and Scott picked out these guys. They were the cheapest fish in the store ($0.13 a piece) and hardly swam around their new tank for the first week. Now they have settled in and seem quite happy!

First (and appears to be the last) feeding by Scott. He also chose the red rocks and pink plant :o)

Lunch with the new guys!

Sports

No summer trip to Minnesota would be complete without a little bit of backyard baseball.

Of course Scott got to play a little golf too...

And whatever Scott does, Sydney is sure to do too!