watermelon rolling

Mike harvested his second watermelon from the garden this week. Anna thought it was a toy and had lots of fun rolling it back and forth to daddy.

And when daddy was done playing, she continued to roll it around the whole kitchen, lol!

laundry basket rides

Sometimes they are so cute when they play together :)

He's blowing her hair and she thinks it's hysterical!

recycled shirt

I made Anna a new shirt from an old shirt that belonged to nana Cook. I was able to save the Winnie the Pooh and the decorative stitching on the sleeves and use them on her shirt. I love it, it's really cute and it reminds me of Donna every time I see it :)

car show

Today Josh wanted to have a car show with his matchbox cars, just like the one we went to with papa L.  He lined up all the cars on the table, then used his tinker toys for the rope barrier to keep people away from the cars.

He even added the old fashioned choo choo train

Then he decided that some of the people had to be behind the ropes so they could stand by their cars and clean them

The cars then had to drive around on the roads so that everyone could look at them

"We're having a car show!!!"

And somehow, the robot became involved in the car show.....  

talking on the phone

Anna was up late the other night, playing with toys after Josh went to bed.  She was really excited to play with the toy phone.  When you close the phone, it waits a few seconds, then rings, and she would answer it every time :)

 

 And since she rarely sees mommy actually talk on the phone, here she is typing an email or facebook post, lol! 

Love this one!!  

Roar!!

Josh has a hand me down costume, I think it's a dragon from a disney movie, but not completely sure...  He was wearing it today and running around roaring and wrestling with Anna.  She thought it was the funniest thing ever and was giggling hysterically! 

tomatoes!!!

We went to visit my parents this weekend and their neighbors were out of town and left my parents to tend to their garden.  They told us to pick whatever was ripe so it didn't go bad.  We ended up with about 2 bushels of tomatoes!!  


We got home Monday evening, unloaded the car, then went to work getting them cleaned and processed because we knew they wouldn't last long. 


We set up an assembly line to keep the kids involved.  I put them in the sink, Josh moved them to the other side and Mike dried.

 Anna was in charge of quality control

 Gayle had a couple of really big ones in his garden

 Still checking to make sure they're good

Josh helped Mike run them through the processor

So glad this is the first time she's worn this shirt....

 

There was a pile of seeds and juice all over the stool and the floor.

My favorite part is that Mike has adapted his drill press to run the hand crank processor.  It works great for big projects like this :)

 

All juiced and in the pots before 10 pm!