Oh what do you do in the summertime?

When all the world is hot, dry and yucky?   (going on 3 weeks of over 100 degrees!!) You stay inside, that is what you do!  And you get very creative and try lots of new things.  Well, that is what we do anyway...and eat lots of Popsicles and ice cream :)

Peter helping dad in the garden, before it got too hot this was Peter's favorite thing to go pick beans with dad.  We planted purple, yellow and green so it was always exciting to see what color would be ripe.

June 11, 2012

Isaac's attention span has reached the point of sitting and watching tv for about 5-10 minutes as long as it is baby einstein.  That was very helpful on our trip to utah!



June 14, 2012

As many of you know we have a basement, which is now actually furnished (yay!) and it is a great retreat from the heat.  I decided to pull out some of our area rugs from St Louis and put down there because even though we have carpet it still hurts quite a bit when little heads bonk.  Peter and Isaac were SO excited, and for some reason thought it was there own personal gymnastics mat.  Peter has known how to do a somersault for awhile  now  and started rolling away.  Isaac sat and watched for a few minutes and not to be outdone stood up and then executed a perfect somersault.  To say that I was shocked would be an understatement and Isaac looked like he just had won a gold medal on the floor exercises!    And Peter thought it was just great that his little brother could join him in his antics!  I did not have my camera at the time but a few days later we were showing dad our new trick and this is what I caught on film.  Not as perfect as he can do but definitely shows his lack of fear and personality!

June 29, 2012

After an afternoon of cleaning the couches, forts and jumping off the cushions Peter was bored and made a telescope to check out the moon.  I knew we had a curtain and stair cleaning attachment but I never new we had the telescope upgrade! 

July 11, 2012

 And of course what summer is complete without playing in the water? Isaac is getting so brave with the slip and slide.  It is so cute to watch him overcome his fear of getting splashed so that he can be like his brother.  He would crawl down the slide almost having a panic attack and would be so proud of himself when he made it to the end-I was so proud of him as well.

June 25, 2012

 Peter is getting really good at sliding, he is like a little torpedo.  He goes so fast he sometimes slides right off the edge!