Make and take day

We had our 3rd annual make & take with all of the cousins. Here is a picture of the 9 children. Melayna didn't do much crafty stuff, and Zach and Marissa got some help, but the other children have fun on the day...


Here is Zach's patriotic windmill. I think it only took him 5 minutes to tear apart. But he had fun!
Gramie helping Isabella on her windmill
Liza with Isabella and Zach
Isabella's new pencil case...

Post Haircut

Here is Zach sporting his new haircut...

Haircut

Zach had his hair cut today at the Downtown Barber Shop in Warsaw. It was his first time to sit by himself for a haircut and he did great!

More boo boos

If there is a way to get hurt, poor little Zach can find it. He was out playing with his cousins in on the swingset when he let out a cry and came running. He said a big fly bit him. We're not sure if it was a bee or a wasp, but it was pretty painful. He's all recovered now, but I wanted to put this on the blog...

Fishing

Isabella went fishing with her grandpa yesterday. She had been wanting to go with him and they finally got a chance to go yesterday. She took right to it.

She caught several fish in a short time.

I tried for a while to catch one, but didn't have much luck. All I had to do was hand the pole to Isabella and she'd hook a fish right away.

She liked catching the fish, but she was happy to let grandpa put the bait on the line. :-)

Playing together

Zach had fun playing with Melayna a couple of nights ago when Noel and Angie were over. Possibly more fun for Melayna since she had no problem with Zach putting the cars in a line, but he would get upset when she would "take my cars out the line."

Here Liza and her brother Noel have Zach and Marissa on their shoulders. They thought that was great.

Melayna checks out Gus, Liza's parent's dog. He is bigger than her in just about every way.

When we first got here Zach was scared of him, but now he is warming up to him and will even pet him now and then. He even gave gus a hug goodnight when it was time for bed.

County Fair

Last week was the 4-H county fair here in Warsaw. We went on "dollar ride" day and had fun riding rides at the carnival and seeing the animals. We met up with Liza's brother and family and did rides together.

Liza rode the carousel with the kids. They loved it.

Isabella just hit the minimum height of 42" so she could ride alone. Morgan was quite a bit shorter, but since Isabella was tall enough, they could ride together. Didn't make a lot of sense to me, but they still had fun!

Zach and I riding on the ferris wheel.


The kids all went together on the boat ride. They had fun when Zach wasn't bugging Marissa.

After rides, we went to the animal barns to look at horses, pigs and cows. We also went in to the kid's barn and the kids got to touch some baby animals. Zach thought the baby duck was pretty cool. Isabella really liked the little horse.

Fireworks

I joined up with the family in Warsaw on July 4th. Isabella and I went out and bought some fireworks for the evening. She said that she wanted to buy fireworks, but only ones that didn't make any noise. :-) So, we bought sparklers, roman candles, smoke bombs and others that didn't have reports. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. The kids had fun setting them off.


Isabella really liked the sparklers.
They also liked the roman candles. We set them off before it was dark because the sun doesn't go down here until 9:30 or so.

Zach liked watching, but still wanted to make sure it wasn't too loud.

Picking Blueberries

When Liza got to Indiana, she and the kids spent the night with her sister and family. They went blueberry picking and had a great time. The kids love blueberries and Isabella had asked before what they grew on so they got to find out.



Zach ate as many as he kept. He really liked them.

What better way to finish up then a quick blueberry picnic?

Airport Security

On our way back from Thailand we had to go through security not once, not twice, not three times, but FOUR. Oh yes, and with 4 of us and all our stuff, it was no small production to get through each security line. Here's a picture from our last security stop in Chicago. You can see that we took up around 10 baskets and all the counter space. It's even more fun to put it all back together on the other side. :-)