Thursday, August 13, 2009

Even More Summer Fun!

We’ve done a few fun things since we’ve been home from Denver.  Vance and Luke went to “Pirate Treasures” through parks & rec.  They played in a pirate ship, made pirate hats, and followed a treasure map to find treasure! Here’s a picture of Luke in his hat with his treasure map.  He added the “telescope” when he got home!

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Beka has been rolling around and moving like crazy – she may crawl before her brother did!  The other day I left her on her back in the middle of the playmat, and this is what I saw less than 5 minutes later:

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I wish I’d seen her get that far! 

Monday we started Beka on some solid food – rice cereal.  These pictures are from the 3rd day of cereal.  I’m not sure which was cuter – the funny faces and noises that B was making while eating, or Luke laughing hysterically and saying “Yeah Beka!” every time she took a bite!

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Tonight Luke and I made alphabet cookies after his nap. He loves his letters so he was pretty excited when I brought home alphabet cookie cutters from Topeka yesterday and couldn’t wait to make cookies with them! He did a great job helping me mix up the dough and then cut out the cookies!

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Pretending to “drive” with the O cookie cutter – he decided it looked like a steering wheel.

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Cutting out the cookies.

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Ready to put them in the oven.

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The finished product!

Even though she couldn’t have any cookies, Beka was still happy!

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Trip to Denver

  Two weeks ago we took a family trip to Denver to visit Vance’s sister Wendy and her husband Micah and their daughter Ida. It was a lot of fun to get all the kids together again!  Vance’s parents were there too – so all the kids got a lot of grandma and grandpa time.

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Beka, Luke and Ida – long legs all around!

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Beka and Ida.  So much fun to watch the girls interact with each other!

While we were in Denver, we went to a place called Jump Town. They had several courts of wall to wall trampolines!  I don’t have any pictures of Luke on the trampolines, but he also played in the kid’s section on the inflatables, and had a great time!

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Here’s a picture of the large trampoline court. It was very fun!

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We had a great time in Denver – it was so much fun have all the kids together with aunts and uncles and grandparents!  And we survived the car trip there and back – though we split both drives into two days for our own sanity!