Here's a quick run down of our summer activities thus far. Memorial Day weekend (before school was out for me) we took the kids to the zoo. Huston loved playing with the phones in the MOLA and seemed more interested in the zoo than he ever had been before. Arden's enthusiasm probably helped excite him a little more.
Arden particularly loved the aquariums and did everything she could to climb through the glass so she could get to where the fish and turtles were. You can see her puckering her mouth like a fish in the picture below. That girl really, really, really loves animals.
We got to feed some of the birds, too, which she really liked. Not sure why she's making this face, but I like it.
Here's a few random pictures of a game Clarke invented with the kids called "Arden in a Basket." It consisted of Arden climbing into this basket, Clarke picking her up and carrying her to wherever Huston told him, and Arden screaming when she got put down (unless they put her on the kitchen counter, which she liked). Unfortunately, Mommy put an end to this game because I really liked that basket and was afraid they were going to break it. (Side note: notice the ugly backsplash and countertops in our kitchen? They're now gone! We got new granite counters and a nice, clean white subway tile backsplash in its place. I'll post pictures, if we can ever get around to putting the new hardware on our cabinets).
Here's a random shot of my sticker-loving girl covering her favorite stuffed animal with stickers. It's hard to resist giving her a sheet of stickers when she calls for "Gickers! Gickers!" (Aren't her curls so delicious? I just love running my fingers through them and twirling the curls around).
We have taken the kids swimming once so far at the pool in our neighborhood. They had a really good time, though you can't tell at all from this picture where they look completely bored and annoyed.
One day while we were just hanging out at home, we got out the coloring books and colors and the kids entertained themselves for quite some time. Huston ended up standing the colors on end and pretending they were some kind of rocket ships, while Arden carefully and meticulously colored every little shape on the page. Such a difference between boys and girls!
Last week I got to meet some friends at the children's museum for the first time this whole year, and it was really fun. Arden is a great lover of rubber ducks, and grabbed about 6 of them when she saw them in the water tables outside, causing some other offended children to yell, "Hey, I want some, too." I got her down to about 3, which she happily carried around the rest of the time we were outside.
Huston loved putting this little paper cups inside the tube of air and watching them blow up and fall down. Look at that precious face of his! He's such a little boy now.
I tried to take a cute picture of the two of them together on this ABC bench, but they were not cooperative. Huston did try to kiss Arden for me, but it just ended up looking like he's smelling her armpit or something.
And one final random picture of a very happy girl playing with chalk outside. You should have heard her scream when I made her come back inside. She really knows how to throw a tantrum! But she's worth it.
