Imaginary Friends and Reid Park

Caleb has two imaginary friends now. They are named Christopher and Sammy. Christopher is someone imaginary that he plays with, but he often pretends to be Sammy. Sometimes he'll ask questions, and when I answer them he says, "No, Mommy! I was talking to Christopher!" So far his imaginary friends don't clean up the house like mine used to. We'll have to see if they pick up that trait. :-)

We finally got out of the house to go play with friends on Saturday. We were going to go Friday night, but a storm hit right before we left. My friend Joyce and her kids Michael, Gabriel and Joseph were already on their way to Reid Park, so we were going to drive over there and invite them to hang out at our place. Our plans changed, though, because our parking lot was completely flooded. There were actually children swimming in some of the lower sections of the parking lot. The storm was really bad; an 8 year old boy was hit by lightning at Reid Park and was killed. It made us really grateful that we decided to stay home, but we feel so sorry for his family.

On Saturday night, we tried again and there was no storm to slow us down. I didn't bring the camera, so no pictures, but it was a lot of fun. I think we need to hit up Reid Park more often, because it has more exciting playground equipment than most parks, and more strategically located benches for me!

Caleb the photographer

Caleb has been really into using my camera lately. He's figured out how to take pictures, and I think he's doing a pretty decent job! I think his favorite subject was our over-full trashcan. He took tons of shots and after each one yelled, "Yay! The trash can!" Here are some of the pictures:




Kaiana has decided that she needs to be able to eat people food. I was holding her and eating a slice of pizza the other day, and she was trying to lick the grease off of my fingers! I'd love to tell my doctor that pizza grease was her first food. :-) Here she is trying to drink Daddy's milk. She got pretty upset that we wouldn't let her drink it! I'm looking forward to September when we can let her eat people food.

She had a doctor's appointment last Monday and she weighs 11 lbs 12 oz and is 26 inches long. I'm surprised, I was sure she was at least 13 lbs now! She still doesn't like vaccinations (no surprise there) and the worst part is the betrayed expression she gives me when they poke her. We need to find a new doctor now. I love our doctor, but he's retiring. I wish he'd wait until all of my kids are grown... :-)

Bunk Bed and Dining Out

My Father-in-law made a railing for Caleb's bunk bed. Caleb has been asking for it for a while, because we wouldn't let him sleep up there until he had a rail. He hasn't fallen out of bed in a long time, but I didn't want to take any chances! Here's how it turned out:
Today we were out running errands, and I decided that we could go and grab lunch at Chick-Fil-A. We had coupons for a free sandwich and free chicken nuggets, so I figured it was perfect. Well, we got there and found out that the entire parking lot was packed, and there were 4 cars waiting to get into the drive thru! Talk about busy! We ended up going to Wendy's instead, where there was only 1 person ahead of us in line. I had to pay for lunch, but at least we got to eat it. :-)

Caleb loves his ranch dressing. He has made an instructional movie detailing how a salad is meant to be eaten. Here it is:




He was also using the spare dressing as a facial moisturizer, but I couldn't convince him to do that for the camera. I'll have to see if his skin is softer and firmer after this. :-)

4th of July

For the 4th, we went to a party at my cousin Ben's house. It was really fun. They'd just bought a Wii, so we tried that out. My favorite part of it was creating my Mii. A "Mii" is a little person you create to represent you in the games. There were a lot of options and initially I tried to make mine look as much like myself as possible. Then I found out that even if you select a female character, you can still have facial hair. So, I added a fu manchu moustache. Daniel has requested that I not grow one in real life. :-)

Daniel's favorite game on it was golf, and he got pretty good at it. I tried it out, but only did one hole. I got par on that one, though.

The neighbors brought over a pool, and Caleb actually decided to get in! It was pretty amazing! He's only been in our pool once so far this summer, but we're hoping to convince him to continue getting in.

Kaiana spent her time spittting, that's her new talent. You can kind of see the bubbles on her lips in these pictures:


And here she is in her cute outfit. Do you recognize the shorts? Extra points if you figure out where you've seen them before. :-)