Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Summertime Groove

We felt like we got a late start to summer with being gone a week and then sick a week, but now we are in our summer groove. There are the usual suspects like the dairy...

Playgrounds new and old...

Backyard fun...

Bear World (notice the scar! She calls it her "crack" and will tell me that her "crack needs more gasoline!" That's vaseline, which the doc told us to keep applying until it had healed. I think we are nearly there! Just slathering on the sunscreen to prevent darkening now.)...

and baseball.  Owen is doing coach-pitch this year, which is a challenging twist! He has got a hit at nearly every at-bat, so far!

For some extra parent bonus points, we found an awesome car show to take our car-aficionado to. He was in heaven!

And we took a fun family bike trip around the Snake river greenbelt here in town one beautiful afternoon. More of that rock-throwing that we're into! It takes two smalls to drive this old tractor.

The big news, though, is that the tooth fairy has been busy at our house lately. Three teeth in one week! Here's the progression. The middle picture made me laugh all day, because that one upper tooth was so loose that it moved when he talked and sometimes he'd smile at me with that tooth unknowingly twisted sideways. But he didn't want to pull it, and it fell out sometime during the night. However, no teeth were lost and the tooth fairy was able to collect all three! Hadley keeps asking if her teeth are loose yet. :)

And on a side note, our garden is producing again! Lots of arugula, sugar snap peas, radishes, spinach, oregano, parsley, and lettuce so far.  Oh, and we are up to our ears in strawberries, which we love!  So far we've made several batches of strawberry freezer jam, frozen whole berries, strawberry poke cake, strawberry watermelon popsicles, and of course tons of plain ones! I have my eyes on some strawberry lemonade and strawberry muffins next. I feel a little like Forrest Gump...

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