Dance, step, wiggle, wiggle, step... now jump!
"The Wheels on the Bus.... "
"Hey, that's my favorite song!!!"
Today, we went to new place to explore called the Spray Park. There were many cool things the sprayed water EVERYWHERE!!!
Surprisingly, Amelia took awhile to warm up to the idea of getting splashed with water by other kids and water fountains. Eventually, she started to venture to one of the smallest water geysers I've ever seen. Amelia finally adjusted to being soaked and had a great time playing with everyone. And in grand Amelia fashion (more recently) she started to drink out of the small puddles on the ground! YUCKY!!!!
Lauren and I had so much fun going back and forth to the two water areas and blasting water out of this water cannon. OK, maybe blasting water at each other was not appreciated by either one of us. Sorry Lauren!
OK, so Mommy was being a wuss (she says she needed to catch up on housework) about the heat outside, so Amelia and I thought we would "chill out" with a good book or two.
Today, we put on our new "fancy" shoes that we will be wearing for Christopher and Ginny's upcoming wedding. We also practiced walking down our makeshift isle aka the hallway!(Yes, that is my flower girl dress that I will be wearing for the big day!)
Well, last night Amelia surprised us once again with a burst of new words adding to her expanding vocabulary. Last night's new word was " Mama, volume please."
This afternoon, while James was taking a much needed rest on Mommy and Daddy's bed, Mommy remember a sorting activity that she read in a book a while back so she thought we would give it a try. We already had the awesome the ABC Peek-a-Block set out and had the Roll-a-Round balls handy, all we needed was a circular container and a squared container to sort the rounds/circles from the blocks/squares. It was fun, especially when I stuck my foot in the bowl to make all of the balls roll around and fly out.
After our closet cleaning the other day, we found some toys that we haven't played with in quite awhile. The last time I tried to put the blocks in the holes on top of the container I struggled and quickly grew frustrated, but now I can put all of the blocks in the correct holes without any help!
Mommy showed us a neat trick today. All you need is a pinwheel and a fan.
Wow, watch it go!!!
This afternoon, we enjoyed just hanging out in the backyard. Very early this morning, Amelia woke up with a terrible stomach bug. She ended up getting sick 4 times throughout the night.
Today was Daddy's "family birthday party" dinner, his real birthday is on June 2nd.
Fill.
Yesterday was Liz's birthday, so today we did a mini-celebration with a song and a mini- birthday cake! Make a wish!!!
"This cake is yummy!"
Before we sang to Liz, we played the with our water/sensory table. Mommy added the bucket filled with small pebbles collected from the beach last week. We had a blast scooping and dumping shovels of the pebbles. I wonder what it might be like if we added some water to the table next time??? 
This morning we went to Grandma Judy and Papa's house to plant our vegetable plants in their large garden. We planted tomatoes, cucumbers, honeydew melon, cantaloupe, and green peppers. Daddy and I just planted a tomato plant. Today was the first time James and I as well as Daddy planted a garden! We had a lot of fun! 
After you dig a hole, you stick a plant in and carefully shovel dirt around it. Then, every plant needs lots of water to help it grown! James carried the heavy cans of water to each plant and slowly poured water on them.
Great watering James!!
I think playing in the mud is the best part of gardening!!!
Today was perfect day to spend at the beach.
Playing in the sand.
Burying our feet in the sand.
Feeding the seagulls our leftovers from lunch.
Throwing rocks into the lake.
Picking out pebbles that are stuck between our toes.
Thanks Nana for another fun Thursday adventure!
Today, we decided to meet up with Joshua and Heather at the castle park. Our play date that included the Z Family was cancelled due to all of them coming down with an icky stomach bug. We hope they all feel better soon! So, we changed our plans just a bit and headed over to a park that was a little closer to our homes. We had a nice running. sliding and swinging at the park. We even got to play in the sandbox again.
Today, we picked up Daddy a little early from work and took him to Great America to celebrate his birthday!
Today, was the first time that James took me on some of the rides that made Mommy and Daddy a little nervous. They didn't know how I would handle riding on them. Don't worry, as you can plainly see, I had a blast on all of them!!!
This was the first time James went down the large tube slide on the pirate ship in the Wiggles World!
We lost count of how many times we went on the "Bone" ride!"Ding, Ding" Here she comes!!!
Around 6:45pm we headed back to the car (which was parked in the first row of the parking lot) and left for a yummy dinner at the Olive Garden. Later, when we returned home we sang Happy Birthday to Daddy, ate some chocolate cake and opened presents. This year we gave Daddy a Wii Fit, a red plastic race car that uses balloons to make it go and an American flag. (James picked the car and he really wanted to get Daddy "a flag".
Happy Birthday Daddy!!!!
We Love You VERY, VERY MUCH!!!
