Summer Fun

A few highlights from our summer. We've managed to make a trip to the zoo, go out of town to visit some family members, and put up a fence around our yard (more Ryan, than we on that one). Brady got to spend his first overnights with both sets of grandparents. He also lost a fingernail in an unfortunate door smashing event but his response after the fact was it was okay as he still had 9 left. (The fingernail is now growing back quite nicely.)

My personal favorite was waking up one morning and fishing a squirrel out of our wading pool. Poor thing couldn't get out, but I learned that squirrels are pretty good at treading water. Brady thought it was the silliest thing and spent the next few weeks checking his pool for swimming squirrels every time he went outside.

Awanas kicked off at our church this week and thanks to a picture from our church's children's minister, we have an example of Brady's growing need to do things his own way, even if it means wearing a crown upside down.



















Here's a couple of recent pictures of Luke who is all smiles anymore. In fact he spent most of today smiling at the antics of his brother. That can't be good.