Jake's Turn in the Studio

He'll be 4 in a few weeks and he looks so grown up!

Playtime Pix

What a Ham!

It took her a little while to warm up, but not long!

How could you not love this face??!?

Abby's First Studio Shots

She's 5 and half months, and is starting to sit very well by herself!

More to come soon!

Jake at School

We have a lot of photos that Mike has taken of Jake's school, but I cannot post most of them since I don't have permission to share photos of other children. But I found this one today, just of Jake, and doing his favorite "work" - sawing!

School ended at the end of May, but Jake's back in school now, at their summer camp morning program, and is happy as a clam. He told us he did his sawing work on the first day. Yesterday, Mike spied him outside happily pushing a wheelbarrow around the playground. This week is supposed to be about gardening but it seems they can do whatever they want inside or outside the classroom - and I'm sure that suits our independent boy just fine!!

And here's a late evening post-script to my earlier post: Jake came out of school/camp today with a huge stick painted green with feathers attached to the tip and announced triumphantly it was a "gardening stick." So what did we do when we got home? We stuck it, straight up, in the front garden. It required digging with his favorite shovel. Boy was he pleased - mission complete!

Playing and First Ball

Abby has gotten very adept with her little piano toy. Here you can see her making it play music with her feet, while she plays with a different toy with her hands!

She's also doing more and more spontaneous tummy time - meaning she turns herself over and plays on her tummy herself.

Yesterday, I introduced her first ball to her. I rolled it to her, and she went for it!

With her mouth, of course!

The hand came second. She really enjoyed trying to play with it.

After Dinner Fun

When we can, we head outside after dinner for some fun in the cooler air. The other night Abby had had a late afternoon nap and was quite awake, so Mike took her outside for some exersaucer photos. Jake ran in circles around her, trying to get in the way of the camera.

They both love after dinner time!

What We Did When it was 100 degrees Out!

Over the last week, it was over 95 degrees for days on end. We spent an early morning on the beach on Sunday and even that was a bit too hot. Finally, we broke out a new sprinkler toy and played at home with it in the shade. Sitting in the middle of all the sprinklers felt just perfect!

Jake had a blast, and Abby wasn't scared of the water streams at all. She kept leaning forward off my lap to touch them. That's my girl!