Catching Up

A primarily picture post:

TUESDAY:

O had his first ever breakfast at Cafe Capp (a local favorite). He had a chocolate chip pancake and didn't leave anything behind!

We worked on some puzzles and practiced the English alphabet. All words with "G" will have to be omitted from our vocabulary, because we lost that piece...

We might not have a full size pool, but that didn't stop us from having some fun in the front yard. 

We also put the sprinkler under the swing.

Day 2 with the Bop It, and the boys made it to Pro level (meaning they passed through Novice, Expert, Master and then reached Pro). Not only has O learned the names of the actions, but this means he also memorized their sounds and the color names of each one! And all in a foreign language! Such a fast learner!

WEDNESDAY:

On Tuesday we told O that we could go to the water park "tomorrow/zavtra". He was so excited and mentioned it over and over. When he woke up Wednesday, the first thing he did was ask what time we were leaving. On the way we called out, "Where are we going?" "Akvapark!" "Where are we going?" "Akvapark!"

We didn't get any pictures at the park, but we had a GREAT time! As he was swimming toward the stairs after the first slide, he was saying, "Again! Again!". Hunger eventually won out over the joy of swimming though, and he said he was ready to go home and eat. He had a bunch of Ritz crackers on the way home.

I showed him how to give a thumbs up and he gave a big one for the water park.

Swimming and the Texas heat are tiring.

THURSDAY:

Thursday morning we had blueberry biscuits for breakfast (Yum!), and O had a side of cottage cheese with honey.

After breakfast we decided to go to our neighborhood Independence Day parade. Basically there are some emergency vehicles and old cars and then all the kids and families gather at the circle with decorated bikes, strollers and wagons. And then they make a big loop through the neighborhood. They also have some food and a brass band. It's pretty entertaining.

After we came back from the parade we pulled out the pool and did some "swimming". haha Even Drew got in on the action this time. 

Ha! You thought our pool looked small in the first set of photos...

O can just blast right through his books, so we're working on encouraging other forms of entertainment. He loves these foam stickers, so he worked on his sticker book for quite a while in the living room. 

We went to dinner at Five Guys for some promised cheeseburgers, french fries and Coca Cola. Afterwords we drove over to our friends' house to wait until it was time to go to the fireworks. They were so sweet to let O run all around the yard and house with their dog. And the dog was really patient to let O lavish him with some slightly too rough boy affection.

They also let him bang around on the drum set, which he LOVED.

They had quite the beat going.

The fireworks show was really not that entertaining for our crew. They had some kind of malfunction at our downtown fireworks presentation which resulted in about a 60 second show. We ended up leaving after an hour, although they did finally get it going again. Next year we will need to pick a place to watch that has better acoustics so that we get more volume too. But on the bright side, O got even more time to run around with Major!