Sew much fun

The sewing bug got me this last week - I think I caught it at Joann's Fabric where the patterns were only $1. So far I have made a little jumper for Ave, a "frilly" skirt for Ave, and matching PJ pants for both kids. The bananas on the monkey PJ pants are mostly yellow but kind of orange (for shading I think), and every time Avery sees them she says "hot nanas". She is very interested in identifying hot things these days.

Tree House

Today was our last Tuesday play date with the Petersen's before school starts, so we headed over to the Treehouse for some good playtime. The've added a lot of new exhibits since the last time we went, so it was a pretty exciting trip. The kids got really into making sea serpants in the art garden which came out great. Avery's favorite exhibit was the fish tank again, where she saw Nemo, Gil, Dory, and Bubbles. She was a really good sport and got packed along at Oliver Speed through the whole place. Some of the new exhibits in the Treehouse feature life-size animals that move, and she wasn't really sure about these. It was a really good picture-taking opportunity because the kids got dressed up in make-believe clothing quite a bit too. Oliver said the cutest thing while playing on the fire engine with his friends and another boy. The other boy who was there playing had taken it upon himself to put the 5 year olds in charge as "bosses" because they were the oldest. Oliver told the boy he was the boss too, and when the boy disagreed with him because he was was only four, Oliver told him, "Well, I am really brave. When its dark, I don't even got scared, so I'm in charge too." And the boy didn't argue with it! He is too clever for words. Check out the vido at the end of the post for Oliver's puppet show. (You may need to turn off the music player to hear the audio on Ollie's video)

Lagoon, Stomach Flu, Heintz visit

A couple of weeks ago we decided to load up the kids at 7:30 at night and go to Lagoon with some free passes we aquired. It was a bad sign when I was yawning on the walk INTO Lagoon from the parking lot, but we ended up having a really good time. We just had tickets for a few of the "classic" rides, so we split the spinning rides in half and Jed went on half of them with Ollie and I took the other half with him. Avery was able to go on the Merry-Go-Round and the train, which she loved. Oliver had been wanting to go to Lagoon for a long time, so we decided to seize the opportunity and not worry about bedtime for one night. It was a great family time and even though it was short, we managed to get the whole experience, included the nauseous feeling when you are all done (me and Jed anyway, I think the kids were fine!) Oliver decided his favorite ride was Tilt-a-whirl, and ever since we went he has been setting up mock-carnival games at home, complete with small, medium, large, and X-large prizes to win!







Sorry to talk about nausea so much in this post, but the next notable thing to blog about is the sotmach flu that everyone except Avery got. It had the absolute worst timing as Jed was working overtime that week and my family was in town from Colorado at the same time. Needless to say, we did not get as much time with our extended family as we had hoped - only Avery and I were able to go over and see them on Sunday for the evening. But the little bit we got with them was wonderful! It is so surreal to see my cousins whom I really knew better when I was a kid as full-fledged adults, going to college, holding down jobs, getting tattoos, and doing other adult stuff!