Fun-filled days

Every day is an amazing gift from God. Our children greet us with a smile each morning and give us heart-melting hugs and kisses every night. And in between, we are having loads of fun with our children.

Most mornings, we go for a walk over to the lake to feed the ducks.

Sometimes the girls ride in the wagon instead of the stroller.

For the summer, the library is hosting some special programs for kids like magicians, ventriloquists, and storytellers, in addition to the regular toddler reading group on Tuesdays.

Of course we love to play with play-doh. (We're playing with the spaghetti factory that Mommy received from the girls for her birthday.)Aubrey draws pictures and letters with her crayons, markers, or chalk and plays with her magnetic letters. Aubrey also likes to organize things by color. In the photo above, she is proudly showing us the "words" that she made by lining up the letters that are the same color.

Aubrey is entertaining Addison with a game of "peek-a-boo" while Mommy is making lunch.

I am fascinated by Aubrey's imagination: In the photo above, Aubrey had squished her gooey fig newtons onto the side of the table. Just as I was about to scold her for playing with her food, she proudly told me that she was making a stop sign. "A what?" I asked. "A stop sign".....like the one that comes out on the side of a school bus. I was impressed.

On a different day, while Aubrey was sitting on the big potty, she pulled the oval toilet lid over her back and said, "Look, Mommy. I'm a turtle." How cute!

As indicated in previous posts, Aubrey likes to have picnics. In the photo above, Aubrey laid out washcloths for each of her tub friends, Tigger, Pooh, and Piglet, so they could have a picnic.

When it's not unbearably hot outside, we eat lunch or supper on our screened-in porch. The swing is a good alternative to a highchair for Addison. It's also a great place to have messy treats like popsicles.

On the weekends (and some weekday evenings), the girls play in the pool.

Aubrey likes to push Addison around in her boat in the big pool.
Who needs to go White Water when we have an inflatable pool and a slide!
After a bath or when getting dressed for bed, Addison likes to play with the baby in the mirror.

At night before bed, Aubrey likes to "read" to her animals (and Addison). She lines them up, gives them a book, then sits on a stepstool in front of them and "reads" them a story.