Misc July

Misc July
July 1-18

 The girls spent one of their summer days having a lego party!

 Lucas discovered he can crawl into our bathroom sink...and get into all kinds of greats things up on the counter!

 Matisyn loves nights when Matt is working on a big vinyl order.  One of her favorite creations is a vinyl snowman!

 I'll get the cup myself Mama!  Lucas climbs right out of his high chair now, and thinks the counter gets him to lots of great things in the kitchen too!  He climbs up on everything now.

 Emi finished a whole summer workbook already in July.  She has been a great little worker each day, always excited to do her pages, and learn new things.  She really liked to work on it with Mommy best.

 Lucas has been very "helpful" these days.  He poured his own cereal.  :)

 One of our privilege stick activities was the ivory soap experiment.  They both hypothesized that the soap would melt, but it definitely didn't!  They were so excited with what happened.

I've been cleaning out closets and going through things again, trying to get rid of the stuff we aren't using.  This is one of our donation piles.

 Our big boy, 21 months, finally got to turn around in his car seat!  He is so excited to be in his "big boy seat" which he says every time he sees it!

 Trying to get a picture of all three after church one day.  It is close to impossible if Lucas is not in the mood!  I love how the girls still try really hard to pose, even though they are wrestling with him and trying to get him to look at the camera with them.  The two thumbs up from Emi while Lucas is crying cracks me up.

 Finally some smiles, but it took a lot of effort and lots of tries!

 We did another one of our activities, spray chalk, when Jens came to visit.  They had fun with it, but it wasn't as great as I was hoping.  It didn't really show up as much as expected.  Spray bottles bring hours of fun anyway though.

I cheated for Lucas and let him have a little bit of ice cream when we were at McDonald's.  He LOVED it, and then screamed so loud when I couldn't give him more that we had to leave.  Luckily the girls had already had their playtime!

 Showing off his 49er's spirit for Uncle Chunk!

 Christmas in July!  We opened Lucas's train set from Grandma Karen from Christmas, and all three kids were ecstatic and entertained for hours!  It has started a "choo choo" obsession for Lucas!

 Drawing of Mommy and Emilyn, by Emilyn!

 Such great friends, celebrating our friend Alisa that has been fighting cancer.  She had a 'good friends and good hair' party to see everyone before a big treatment she was having.  She is amazing!

 We love swimming at Grandma Barb's.  Megan and I planned a Wednesday play date for every week that we could during the summer for these cute buddies and cousins to play and swim together.

 All three kids got haircuts to get ready for our California trip, and so we wouldn't have to worry about it before school started.  We just trimmed the girls' hair, they are both growing theirs out right now, and trimmed a bunch off for Lucas so he can have his handsome spike back!  This was one of his not interested in cooperating for a picture times!