WATER WATER EVERYWHERE!!!

Charles is becoming a real water baby. He loves to be on our pool. These are at a local neighborhood park. There is a nice area with dancing fountains. Charles was "havin' a ball!" as my dad would say. He stomped and spun around and ran in, under, through every which way in the water. I took about 150 pictures (yeah digital!) It was hard to get pictures because I'd never seen Charles move so much! Many times by the time I pushed the button on the camera he was spun around and onto the next droplets and I had yet another picture of his back!








of course what are big brothers for?? Clay filled a bucket of water and poured it over Charles's head. Charles loved it...foiled again, Clay!!

Fun in the Sun

Wednesdays are "mom connection" days. We meet somewhere different each week. Today we met someplace REALLY different...my backyard. The kids all loved swimming and harvesting the grapes.

Charles keeping up with the 'big kids' as usual.

Moms keeping up with each other...as usual. Hey, who forgot the margueritas??!!

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SLIDE

Charles was moving all over the house so an hour before nap time I zoomed him off to the park down the street. Caleb actually taught him to go down a slide a couple of weeks ago but he hadn't been on one since. Watch the learning curve. I had to bribe him with my cell phone. He loves playing with cell phones and mine in particular is OFF LIMITS so it was a worthwhile coax for him!!

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INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!

We went up the street to a friend's house, Lisa and Steve, for a 4th celebration and we're having our good friends, the Whites, over tonight. It's not so much that we have 2 sets of friends but you have to remember...we were heading down the path of life when we were suddenly blessed with Charles soooo...we do sort of have 2 sets of friends. The set with young kids Charles's age and the set with young grand-kids Charles's age. It's fun falling into both categories. It was fun to hang out with them and bring Charles. Something we hadn't done in a long time, if fact, ever I think. LOL

Here's Charles all decked out for the holidays!



And what's 4th of July without WATERMELON??!


Daddy time! The funniest thing is for those of you who know Steve. He would not face the camera before Charles was born. This photo-phobia is yet another transformation in our lives. It will be good for Charles to grow up with so many photos of his daddy's face as opposed to Caleb and Clay who only have the back of his head. LOL



A little memorial...this is the SAME hat Charles work LAST Independence Day...check it out!

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BEHIND THE 8 BALL AND PLAYING CATCH UP!

Ok, I just spent an hour updating lots of photo's and videos and it all just disappeared! arrrghhh.

I was saying, grab a cup of coffee and enjoy catching up with us on this post....

I was saying, from June 10 to Aug. 8 is 'celebration season' around here. Someone has a special day every week to 10 days. I already feel like I'm behind the 8 ball trying to keep pace with making everyone feel special on their special day.

After Charles' birthday party...we had Father's Day.

A few days later, was my mom's birthday...
Charles practiced long and hard to serenade her with this little birthday ditty...



For no reason at all, my friend, Olga, and I took our babies to Sly Park for the day. What a fantastic find. I actually had no idea this little treasure was within an hour from here all these years. Olga mentioned at our mom's group that she was a little nervous to go by herself so I chimed in "I'll go with you!" and off we went a couple of days later.

Now you should also know that shortly after Charles was born, somehow, he was attributed a theme song. It was Tomas's doing. His theme song is "Johnny Be Good" by Chuck Berry. Only we sing over all the "Johnny" parts with "Charles"
Here's Charles on the way UP to Sly Park rockin' out to his theme song....


and here he is on the way BACK...


Next on the summer celebration list is STEVE. He turned 40 on the 30th (as did his twin sister!) There's a quiz later. LOL The birthday was low key as requested. Two years ago in the middle of a riveting sermon at church er'h'm...Steve turned to me in a panic and whispered "Holy Crap, I'm turning 38 which means in 2 years I'm turning 40...holy crap....40." He said he didn't want a big deal on his 40th and he really freaked a little....pulled old High School videos (at least they weren't Beta) from a trunk I didn't know he had. Pulled out old trophies and medals, told us stories of his youth then packed them all up again and looked for gray hairs. So I threw him a surpise party that year. Who would'a thought just a year later he'd have a baby to keep him young!! So, 38 ... surprise party... 39 a new baby... 40--we just let him know how much we admired him and let him slide in at a restaurant.
And that brings us to July....
We rang in the month with Charles's first trip to the zoo....

I'm glad we got in free, thanks to my friends, Elle and Katie, because Charles was clueless when it came to the animals.

Tomorrow is INDEPENDENCE DAY...I don't have to get anyone a present for THAT but the next day is Caleb's birthday... LOL
ENJOY YOUR FREEDOM TOMORROW EVERYONE... I have a few friends in England to whom I have to rub it in as they insist they "gave" us away. LOL

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