Summer Fun with Friends
We've been keeping busy lately out in the sun spending time with friends. In the picture to the left Madeline and Timothy are playing in the pool with our friends Kevin and Jenny's boys. Well, actually Madeline is protecting Timothy from the rapid fire of Drew's super soaker. This picture reminds me of the time I slid across the floor of the kitchen in front of my sister Heather telling mom that if she was going to spank Heather, she would have to spank me first...which she did =)


Here's a picture of our little friend Cora. Cora and Mindy spent the day with us on Tuesday of last week, and as you can see in the picture, Cora is ready for the pool. She hated it though! We had a little baby boat thingamajig and everything, but to no avail...she hated the water. You can see more pictures of Cora if you check out Kevin and Mindy's blog.

What Cora LOVED was our trampoline! She is starting to cruise along like big stuff, when she is able to hold onto furniture or any other stabilizing object, and the net around our trampoline provided just what she needed to make her way around with an occassional bounce. She giggled and giggled and smooshed her nose up to the net. It was too cute!

Something else we have done a lot of is taking bike rides up to the park. (We arranged a bicycle trade between Madeline and our little friend Olivia, and Madeline has since enjoyed our rides significantly more...just don't ask her about biking to Timothy's speech class on Monday!) Here are some pictures of the kids, as you can see, I finally talked Timothy into the big kid swings, and he loves them!




















Here are a couple pictures of Madeline with my friend Lisa's son AJ. We've been spending a lot of time with them this summer and have had a lot of fun together.





And here is one more picture of Madeline....she LOVES the pool! At least she used to love the pool. She is not feeling very well right now because she has contracted double ear infections. They started as swimmer's ear and have made it into her middle ear, so she is on antibiotics (oral and ear drops) and has sworn off the pool for good, or at least until she recovers and I persuade her that earplugs will prevent recurrence =)
Well, it's a big day for Timothy tomorrow.....FIVE YEARS OLD!!! I can't believe it. I took him to the doctor yesterday and we survived kindergarten shots. He was a real trooper and has been doing well today; I'm pretty sure he still loves me in spite of the fact that I subjected him to so much pain. We're going to head over to Ohio this weekend and down to Tennessee the following weekend, so I am sure we'll have plenty of birthday party pictures to share.

Until next time!

-shannon