A Day in the Life of US!

Raymond's activity for the day: Making a puzzle!  He drew a picture and I cut it into a puzzle for him.  He was pretty excited by this.  It is turning out to be quite challenging, actually!  Probably because he didn't have too much color on the picture.  

And here is what Mommy did while he worked on his puzzle- tried out a couple of recipes with the green tomatoes from the garden.  One is a relish and the other is a green tomato bread (like zucchini bread but with green tomatoes.)

Family Fun

We spent!   the afternoon walking a trail at the nature center.  What a fun day.  Here is a cute picture from a really strange angle, though.

Another not so great picture- but you can see how pretty it is there at Powder Valley 

A Very Hungry Caterpillar Storytime Party

Here is a preview of Lucia's birthday party photos- more to come.  It was a joint party with her friend Joseph, who turned one two days before her!

The Eric Carle Butterfly fruit tray

Daddy blowing up balloons with the birthday girl.

The Eric Carle Caterpillar veggie tray and  sun made out of hummus and peppers.

The foods the caterpillar ate in the book are on the mobile.  The baby books on the buffet...

The dessert bar.... yum!

The party favors- homemade playdough to take home.  You can kind of see the invitation on the wall in this picture as well.

In the corner is a caterpillar with the kid's pictures and a box to collect books in lieu of gifts.

The birthday girl enjoying her blueberry custard cake!

Thanks, Aunt Linda!

Aunt Linda sent this awesome wagon for Lucia's birthday and some books to share with Raymond!  The kids obviously enjoyed the gifts!!  They couldn't wait to open it!

Photo Book

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Catching Up

The kids broke the camera cord so I haven't been able to upload these in a while- but here are a few pics from the last month or so.

Lucia RARELY ever laughs.  She is a very serious baby.  So, I was thrilled to catch this on video.  Only Raymond can make her laugh like this!

 Here we are enjoying our homemade cherry cheesecake ice cream!  It was really a pretty healthy treat, too!

Gotta have a picture of sleeping babies, right?

Poor Raymond has had a rough summer.  Here is a picture of the burn he got when a light bulb randomly fell out of the ceiling fan fixture in his room and he went to touch it.  How crazy?!  Poor little guy. Then there was  getting a stomach virus on his 3rd birthday, followed immediately by hand foot and mouth.  Then we all got sick with some fevery/stomach ache thing and then a few days later he got fifth's.  And now the poor little dude has a cold!  All in just 3 months!  Hopefully he can catch a break soon.  At least we haven't had any broken bones!