Our Illinois trip!

We had a great trip to Grandma Judy and Grandpa Wayne's house! What Mimi and I realized when we went back through the pictures is that Mommy and Daddy did not take a lot of pictures! We did a lot of stuff-but they forgot to take pics of it! Hopefully our cousins got more pics than we did...you gotta get better at that Mom and Dad!

On the road...we took off at 4am...

and obviously this is much later than that since the sun is out!

LOVED the sandbox and swing set!

Thank goodness Mommy packed several extra clothes since we wound up with sand in every pocket!

Thomas worked on a Spongebob puzzle with me....

and sort of with Mimi....Mimi just liked pushing the pieces on the floor!

We had fun coloring...

And of course eating with all our cousins! (Joey, Nathan, Thomas, Eva, Anna and Cindy is at the table with us)

We also went swimming, stayed in a hotel, played with lots of new toys and with Venus! We had so much fun...and Hank says everyday "I want to go back to Grandma Judy's...so hopefully we will again soon!

Hi! As we mentioned before, we spend a lot of time at the park early in the morning lately since it is too hot later in the day...and the heat is STILL going on! We are headed up to Chicago to see Grandma Judy and Grandpa Wayne and cousins on Thursday and it is cooler up there so we are looking forward to it! I am sure we will have lots of pics to share with you after that!

Mimi is not afraid at the park anymore! She climbs with me, slides with me...everything!

I still have to cheer her on when we go thru the tunnels...

I know Hank would like me to do more but I love the steps!

I love climbing!

So Mom gave me bin to put my Big Big Loader pieces into....she left the room and when she came back, she saw the surprise I had for her...I emptied out a lot of my other toys into the bin as well...now it has everything!

Keeping cool with the popsicles!

And so yes, again, Mom only left us for a minute and when she came back-she saw that Mimi and I had climbed into the water table with our clothes on...sorry Mom...we needed to keep cool!

We will talk with you again when we get back from Chicago!!

Hot Hot Hot!

It has been hot here in Atlanta for a couple of weeks now. And by hot, I mean 95! We usually go to the park early in the morning before the heat of the day and then spend the rest of them time in the cool house. So here is how we fill our time...

Mimi and I are pretty good mess-makers...and as you can see this is still early morning-we still have our pj's on!

Yes, this is how I look before I have my first cup of coffee :)

And sooooo......I think I am old enough to not have to take a nap anymore. Except on this night, I didn't even make it thru dinner and I fell asleep!

I like to have a good time-put a costume or part of one on me and I will be the life of the party!

I realized we never showed you my birthday gift from Grandma Mary and Grandpa Ed! Mimi and I get a lot of use out of it (early in the a.m)...and I have a couple videos of us riding around in it that I will post soon!

Life of the party back! Today I am a combination ballerina and Super Why!

I have learned how to color (only on the paper-not on the table) so Hank and I spend a lot of time doing that in the afternoon

Mom says "Hank, can you smile?" and this is what she gets!

It is tiring being the life of the party-I need a break!