Hot Day = Pool

Sunday's weather put us up in the 90's. It...was...hot! So we cleaned up the pool and filled it up for early afternoon swimming.
Oh yes, and XXL giant chocolate chip cookie eating.... courtesy of our baker, McKenzie. And YES, she ate it all...
Tyler wasn't too thrilled about keeping a hat on...
and this is what happens when the stool you are sitting on doesn't quite clear the top of the pool water...
Tyler, nearly falling asleep while Mom dunked him up and down and rocked him in the water...
(i felt the burn!!!!)

Trevor entertaining his little brother.

Addison and neighbor, Ezlahrya a.k.a. "Poochie"

Monday, the boys enjoyed a new slip n' slide next door.
And McKenzie and Maliah watched 2 baby robins hatch in a nest below our deck. They even fed them worms... they were some very proud mamas.

"Aaron" & "Devon"

Game 2

McKenzie had her second softball game on Wednesday. Her team is done practicing and will just have games from here on out. With only a handful of practices before their games started, they have had a lot to take in and remember about the game. But they are picking it up and learning as they go! And doing a good job!

McKenzie walked twice, and had one hit...
Fielded a few balls to get the out at first a few times...
She played 2nd base and did EXCELLENT!!! And even though the team lost by just a few points, McKenzie had a great game!
And Trevor and Addison made a new friend...
We have 1-2 games every week throughout the summer. It will be a fun filled action packed season!!! And we LOVE going to the games! Nick took her to get her own bat and some batting gloves and a helmet so he can take her to the batting cage between games. He and McKenzie went with our neighbors to the park to do some fielding and batting practice. I think they'll be doing more of that in the future! It helps to have that 1:1 to help her learn the game!

New developments

Yesterday, little mister Tyler commando crawled around the couch, then out of the blue, propped himself up on all fours and just started crawling!
And just went crazy crawling all over...

(don't you love his fuzzy wuzzy hair!?!)

And if that wasn't enough milestones for one day, he crawled himself over to the stairs.... and headed upwards!
With his cheerleaders supporting him and encouraging him all along the way!
Guess it's time to break out the child gates again!

Garden Update

After a week of rain last week, and lots of sun, and some Miracle Grow treatments, my garden is thriving!!! Upon my most recent inspection with my mom yesterday, we discovered some vegetable on their way!!!! YAYAYAYAYAY!

Snap Peas, Green Beans & Radishes

Cucumbers & Tomatoes

My first cute little green pepper!!! It's about the size of a quarter now.

The first snap pea

Cute little greenie beanies!

Visitors

While we weren't off site seeing, our visitors, who according to Addison, went by the names of:
"Gamma" - Grandma
"Pappa" - Grandpa and,
"Pappa Allawon" (pappa other one) - Great Grandpa

...just hung out at the house and spent time with the kiddos. Here, grandpa and Tyler are looking under the TV stand for.... I'm not sure what. Tyler kept looking under there, so grandpa thought he'd take a look see too.

Tyler got a hold of grandpa's shades.

Take 2...

Take 3...

And since Addison always seems to be wearing a hat of some sorts, and it seems that she is fascinated with winter caps, I found her this pretty hat online here that came with a dainty pink flower. I wanted her to model it for me, but she was just SO THIRSTY (and didn't want to put the cup down for the picture)
The weather was mostly nice and warm... so we spent some time out on the back deck.
Yesterday, my grandpa and dad flew back home. We took a quick picture with my grandpa in front of our house before we headed to the airport! My mom will be staying a little bit longer!!!

Washington D.C.

Monday we took my parents and grandpa up to D.C. to see the WWII Memorial and some other sites. McKenzie is taking a field trip next week with her class to D.C., so she decided to go to school that day instead. We parked pretty close and only had to walk a little bit to our first site:

WWII Memorial

We listened to the volunteer talk about the memorial, and Addison (wearing Trevor's winter hat???).... did not.

Each star represents 100 lives lost. There are 40,000 stars which equals 400,000 lives lost during WWII.

We posed in front of our state.

(Thank you Nick for adding a little 'spunk' to our photo below)

While walking to the next memorial, some squirrels came up to us as we munched on crackers. So we shared, and they ate right our of Nick's hand.

Korean War Memorial

We stopped for a quick bite to eat...


Then went on to the Lincoln Memorial

Dad, Grandpa, Trevor & Addison * Me, Mom & Abe

We got to watch HMX do a fly by while we were at the Lincoln Memorial! It was pretty neat!

Nick and the kiddos

Grandpa & my parents

Addison & Me

Addison enjoying a cookie

Vietnam Memorial
We could see the Jefferson Memorial from our car, but didn't want to get stuck in afternoon traffic, so we headed on home after a satisfying morning of site seeing.

On the way home, we had a few sleepers...
One, I think was faking. One was obviously not because she was snoring.

And the third one played peek-a-boo with Grandma
ALL THE WAY HOME!