Tuesday, July 7, 2009

"The Fortune of JinJuly"

That's what Rachel calls it...and these flags are "wagons." I think it's really cute. This was a little "project" we did together. She loves "projects" and asks to do one everyday. We get creative sometimes.This last weekend she also started swim lessons. You see a smile on her face and it's true she was happy for the first 15 minutes of her lesson, and then got really nervous for the last half. She was even excited to go again today, but still cried the entire time. She still did everything though. And she'll do everything in the kiddie pool- blow bubbles, put her face in the water, do kicks with a huge smile on her face.

We did a backyard barbeque, put our swimming pool under the slide and it was a huge hit with both of the kids.

Gotta love corn on the cob!

This is our fourth Fourth of July here in Charlotte, and our third time to this good ol' southern cookout at the Carlsons. This is the second year with the blow up slide and Rachel was really getting daring.

These are "hard drinks" and the Capri Suns were "soft drinks." She had 3 of each. I was expecting a midnight visit, but thankfully we never heard from her.
Tommy LOVED the blow up slide and would steer us back to take him on it again and again.
Rachel tried really hard to like fireworks this year, but still HATES them. It was like deja vu sitting inside the house while the fireworks were going.

3 comments:

Maria said...

I can NOT believe it is your 4th 4th! It looks like you had so much fun. I love the 'wagon's too. Very creative.

Herways Go West said...

Looks like you had a blast. What a fun 4th...good thing Rach doesn't belong to Natalie b/c she LOVES fireworks! I doubt she would have been inside with anybody during fireworks...

Amy said...

I'm glad you all had fun. It is tragic about the fireworks really. They are the best part of the 4th of July. Needless to say we were inside too while Jack slept. But we enjoyed watching them from our bedroom window all across the valley.

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