Catch up part 2

Matt informed me yesterday that he didn't know how to use the washer and dryer. Just for that he got to do his own laundry and I walked him through how to use them. He forgot a major step in laundry. DON'T FORGET ABOUT YOUR CLOTHES IN THE WASHER! I went down there this morning to wash bed sheets and his clothes were still in there. Don't worry Matt I washed them and put them in the dryer for you.

Allys fun hair for Sunday.
I had LOTS of fun doing this, but it was a major pain to take out.

Ally is working on perfecting her tricycle skills, along with her scooter and bike skills.

Catching up

Little Brother

Such a fun boy!
Ben is such a good baby. Currently he is working on pushing himself around the floor with his feet. He is rolling both ways and will stick whatever he can get his hands on, into his mouth. Fun stage..not! He adores Ally and LOVES to watch her play. He has started to get himself into her space (when she is coloring he will try and grab her body parts, coloring book, and crayons).

State Fair

This is what Ben did the whole time.

Ally and Matt tried their hand at fishing.

driving a tractor

feeding goats

Our fun morning at the park

We were going to take a bike ride and stop at the park half way through the bike ride, but it looked like it was going to rain, so we drove. I'm so glad we did because it is SOO muggy right now. We just got back and we were just sweating. Ben was sitting in the stroller and I was following Ally around with it. I finally said, "time to go". Now we are feeling great in the A/C. Ben had his first go on a swing on Saturday, but I forgot my camera. I've been trying to find him a blue swing, but continue only seeing pink ones. He loves swinging.

I love his little legs. They have little rolls. So cute!

Can you see the drool hanging off his lip? This man is SUPER slobbery. Ally's been calling him "slobber king".

Busy week.....NOT!

I wish I could say we had a busy busy week and therefore I didn't have much time for updating the blog, but that wasn't the case. On Tuesday we had issues with furniture being delivered and half of it not fitting. We went to the state fair on Thursday. We've done bike rides 4 days this week. I bought a bike trailer and LOVE it. Our friends came and played at the park with us, but this first picture of Ally is the only one I got unfortunately.

Ally has really been enjoying riding her bike up and down the sidewalk.
She is getting better at riding it.

Silly girl!

She loves the folder activities.

Ben found is toes and LOVES them.

He likes to hold them and then try to stick them in his mouth.

Bike rides are so much fun now!

Ben took a nap outside the other day. We were watching Ally ride her bike and he decided it was a good time for a nap.

We tried Ally's crown on Ben.

Silly kids!

Fish Fry and the State Fair

We went to the local church for the fish fry today for lunch and then after naptime we went to the state fair. I don't have any pictures but I do have a video from one of the local news stations. We didn't think we were in the shot and even asked them if we needed to move. It might appear that Matt and I didn't want to sit too close to each other, but really we had a plate of taters between us. We had a great day today with AWESOME food.

Rainy Tuesday

So it's been raining since 10am, very hard. As in down pouring rain. At one point there was a 10ft wide river going through my backyard. I tried to get a picture, but they kept coming out black, so I'll have to have Matt look at that when he gets home. It is now 2:45 and still raining. I'm ready for the sun to come back. Hope you're having better weather than we are, or at least more exciting weather. If I was 16 right now you could find me outside playing in the nasty weather, but I am far from that now and more sensible. I know that playing in the rain can cause you to get sick. Oh but it sure is fun to play in the rain. We would have so much fun growing up, playing in all the mud puddles in our yard and the neighbors. One day we turned the neighbors huge mud puddle into a slip and slide, oh so fun!

Monday

Great Grandma Horn got Ally a scooter at a garage sale, so I promised Ally that after we went grocery shopping, I'd let her ride it to the park. Well, like normal, Mr. B fell asleep.

Ally has lots of fun playing at the park. We were the only ones there.
super Ally

This is right before we went on the walk. We need to work more on riding a scooter. She had lots of fun and that's what counts.

Phil, Ally, and Ben

One of Ally's most favorite people in the world is Uncle Phil. Ally loves to play music with him and when we are home she talks about playing marching band with Phil.

Huh??

Fort Wayne Zoo

On Saturday we all went to the zoo and had a great time. Matt had always talked highly of it and I'm glad we finally had the chance to go. I didn't get any pictures of Ben, I'm not sure how I managed that, but just to note: Ben went to the zoo, he's just not pictured. I think he was either sleeping when the camera was out or someone was off holding him somewhere. We rode on the skylift and the boatride. Ben was able to ride the boatride and we all had a great time on the peaceful ride.

Matt petting the goats.

Phil, Kim, and John on the skylift
Our view from the skylift

Ally sitting on a frog...ribbit

Matt, Ally, and I on the skylift

Ally and I in a tent

Ally and Mr. Gorilla

Ally and a tortoise

Brushing the goats

Cheesin

Grooming the goat