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Vacation-mode: Unlocked

This week was the first full week of summer vacation. We’ve played, we’ve slept, we’ve lazed around the place (it’s been rather warm and the mosquitoes have been crazy)…it’s been nice! One funny story: Abigail was telling me about when we went to the park and she said, “But before we went, you had us put on bug scream and sun scream.” It took her repeating what she said three or four times before I realized she was talking about sunscreen and bug repellent. 😀

I tried something fun: regular Color street nail polish strips…

…with clear and black checkered overlays (also Color Street).

This girl has to dress up at least once a day. It’s so fun!

I was at Trader Joe’s grabbing some other things and ran across this. My pickle-loving kids love it! I think it’s good, but definitely in small quantities (that’s kind of how O feel about pickles, too, though).

A Loooooooong Weekend and Then Some Fun

I mentioned in my last post that Abigail was sick. Well…it took three full days before she was even able to keep anything (even water) down. Luckily, she turned the corner and has recovered. It was pretty dicey there for a bit. We were on the verge of taking her in to see if she needed an IV to keep her from getting too dehydrated. In other news, we had a restful Memorial Day at home (that was the third day of Abigail’s illness), and Joseph finished his last three days of school. We had some rain, which is always nice, but it has since dried up, which is nice, too. Yesterday, Paul took the day off yesterday (which was Joseph’s first official day of summer vacation) and we went to the zoo. The weather was perfect! Today, we took park in a community clean-up day where we helped to clean up our street and did some clean-up at the park, too.

Paul put some flags up at the entrance of our subdivision for Memorial Day. I think it looked quite nice!

Even when it’s been raining, I still have to water my flowers under the tree. The tree has gotten big enough that it creates a nice canopy of shade…that allows pretty much zero rain to get through, haha.

We’ve had a few birds fly into the glass doors. Paul suggested getting some stickers or gel clings for the doors to break up the glass a bit.

I decided to go with these butterfly clings. I put most of them on the back door because this is the one that the most birds have run into.

This is where she spent most of the weekend.

She also spent a lot of the weekend here.

I was looking for a good quote for June and came across this snippet from Ralph Waldo Emerson. I love the many different ways one can interpret this.

I was so happy when she started wanting to play again. That’s how I knew she was finally getting better.

We were getting ready to go get Joseph from school (gotta love her choice of clothing). Later as we were sitting in the parent pick-up line, Abigail had her music hedgehog that plays quiet classical music/lullabies (which she was pretending was a dog) and her Hulk figurine. She was singing the ABCs at the top of her lungs. Then she said, “Hulk! That was too loud. You’ll hurt my dog’s ears! You need to sing quiet!” Then she sung the ABCs song quieter. Then (in a different voice) she said, “Now, for rock and roll!” before saying “rock and roll!” over and over again, at the top of her lungs. It was a rather interesting afternoon, ha.

Black bear! Abigail kept saying, “Hi, bear!”

They both love the Komodo dragon statue.

It was awesome getting to see the Nile crocodile out of the water.

Yesterday was National Donut Day, so we celebrated by making two batches of cake donuts (I love my donut pan).

I made chocolate donuts and vanilla donuts with chocolate and vanilla icing.

We had friends over for the evening, so it was the perfect excuse to go all out.

Paul brought home some “just because” flowers. I had to look up what type these were. I knew they were a variety of a lily, but I wasn’t sure what type. Apparently they are called Peruvian lilies. They’ve always been one of my favorites.

I love how it curves over the walkway. Bonus points if you can spot a tiny Abigail on the trail!

Paul noticed the sun shining on the geranium and making the red really stand out. I had to snap a quick picture!

Almost There!

We’re almost to the end of the school year! Monday is a holiday (Memorial Day) and then then there’s just three days before summer vacation hits. Hurrah! Joseph had his drive-thru awards ceremony and also got to have a fun foam party with the rest of the third graders. A foam party is exactly what it sounds like. They had a foam machine that generated a ton of foam bubbles set up on the black top and the kiddos could run around and play in it to their hearts’ content. We’re having a low-key weekend, though. Joseph came home on Friday feeling a little warm and was a bit congested. He didn’t have a fever this morning, so we loaded up to go to the shoe store, but right as we were getting there, Abigail threw up. :/ We headed home, got her cleaned up (and her car seat and the car) and we’ve been cuddling since then. Tomorrow, I’ll stay home from church with the kiddos and Paul will go on his own. Always an adventure!