It has been so long since my last post. WAY too much has happened in the past few months to try and catch up so I will just start with this past week. I was able to go with Ellie's class on a field trip to the Oregon Zoo. I had so much fun with Ellie and I lucked out with a really small group of sweet girls. We had so much fun learning interesting facts about the animals. Ellie's favorite new fact was: The lions mane protects his face while he fights other lions. Also, one of the reasons that the lioness does the hunting is because the male lion's mane does not allow him to hide as well as the lioness to hunt it's pray. Did you know that? My new favorite fact: Out of the 10,000 salmon eggs laid only 2-3 will survive and make it back to it's birth place. I always knew that the odds weren't good for the salmon but that is less then .02% chance of survival! Yikes!
Today the kids talked me into turning the sprinklers on in the front yard. It was a must since it was a stifling 76 degrees today! And yes, Blake is wearing his Optimus Prime suit. He showed that water who was boss.
On a more normal approach to the nice weather...we all spent quite a bit of time outside, even Ava! Can you tell the older children seem to be having more fun with Ava's toy then she did. She liked it but spent most of her time trying to find a way out. Finally she decided the best way out would be to just lean over the edge until she fell out...I stopped her and no she did not fall out...but if I would have let her she would have been one happy baby. Ava has earned the nickname, "Crazy Ava." We all have to keep an eye on this one. She is one brave little soul who is determined to walk before she is 9 months old. Precious little thing is CRAZY fun! It's a good thing she has her extra cautious cousins Ellie and Viola. I hear sweet Viola announce Ava's every move with much concern.
Today Blake, Viola, Ava, and I walked down to Ellie's school to watch her jog/walk in her jog-a-thon. She did awesome! A little too awesome. This being our first anything-a-thon, we learned to pledge low, then give more if you want. I really thought that in one hour she couldn't walk/run more then 10-15 1/4mile laps. She ended up running 20 laps, that's 5miles in 1 hour! So now Aunt Melissa and I have to brake the bank and pay up...WOW! She really had fun!
Today the kids talked me into turning the sprinklers on in the front yard. It was a must since it was a stifling 76 degrees today! And yes, Blake is wearing his Optimus Prime suit. He showed that water who was boss.
On a more normal approach to the nice weather...we all spent quite a bit of time outside, even Ava! Can you tell the older children seem to be having more fun with Ava's toy then she did. She liked it but spent most of her time trying to find a way out. Finally she decided the best way out would be to just lean over the edge until she fell out...I stopped her and no she did not fall out...but if I would have let her she would have been one happy baby. Ava has earned the nickname, "Crazy Ava." We all have to keep an eye on this one. She is one brave little soul who is determined to walk before she is 9 months old. Precious little thing is CRAZY fun! It's a good thing she has her extra cautious cousins Ellie and Viola. I hear sweet Viola announce Ava's every move with much concern.
Today Blake, Viola, Ava, and I walked down to Ellie's school to watch her jog/walk in her jog-a-thon. She did awesome! A little too awesome. This being our first anything-a-thon, we learned to pledge low, then give more if you want. I really thought that in one hour she couldn't walk/run more then 10-15 1/4mile laps. She ended up running 20 laps, that's 5miles in 1 hour! So now Aunt Melissa and I have to brake the bank and pay up...WOW! She really had fun!
2 comments:
Yay! Welcome back to the blog world! You better keep it up or maybe I'll have to log in and post something for you. Mwa ha ha ha!
Thanks for hangin' today (and yesterday, oh, yeah, and the day before that, too...) We have had too much fun!!!
Oh my goodness. The look on Blakes face is so awesome. So much fun at the miller house! Get blog post. Keep um comin!
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