We walked out of our friend's front door and I was looking at Sonia and going backward. She warned me and assertively pointed with her finger under my feet. If I have made that one step, I would have ultimately landed on this huge black water snake. 
Not a pretty sight but little girls enjoyed following it. Sonia was thrilled with it.
Not a pretty sight but little girls enjoyed following it. Sonia was thrilled with it.
We also celebrated Solstice with our friends at one of the best ice cream party... Lindy is such a wonderful hostess. I fell to take pictures of girls rolling hula hoops down a huge hill. So here are a few joyful moments captured.
Jeremy's whole face was swollen, his eyes were shut and later it spread over his whole body. I was trying to be as nice as I could without erupting into a deep laughter every now and then. What is better? Crying or laughing. By hte way, his face is much better now. Anyways he's got more itchy red rush all over his body. It is not pretty or fun since he seems to be turning into one huge red blister... 
They make ice cream right there so it is like or even better than home made.
Bears picture for papa to sheer him up one day.
Sonia and Feo love their nature class with miss Nancy. That day Sonia saw a frog eating crickets. After miss Nancy told everyone that frog eat crickets, Sonia raised her hand and shared with everyone that snakes eat frogs. 
Valerie and I through a shower for Mary Beth for her new little baby girl. We had so much fun getting ready and I enjoyed hosting at my home for the first time. Thanks to Heather who was visiting us, I felt everything was in its place!
Feo in his new Sunday best. Even with cool matching socks. They only stayed on him for the picture... 
So she looked at them, tasted them, looked at worms that enjoyed some of them. Then I pointed out Jeremy who was really good at picking strawberries. With all honesty I am a bit proud of my own berry picking talents and would much rather bolster about my own talents to her. It was not so easy to recognize Jeremy's natural berry picking greatness ;-) Perhaps I was slowed down a bit with a baby and a busy toddler who kept asking if this berry was the right one to pick. But at the time I truly admired Jeremy's speed, quality and determination. So Sonia went to papa to question every strawberry and I took some pictures. Feo sat next to the patch fending for himself. 
Did I get looks from every grandma within earshot when he stuffed his mouth silly with a nice mixture of straw-dirt-mushed berries that he just proudly picked on his own? Yep. Did I respond with lame "he is a second child so he gets to do a lot more ;-)" when cornered with looks and words? Yep. Did I feel proud he could pick strawberries at seven months just like any of us? Yes.
I did get every stain of his, mine and Jeremy's outfits when we got home. Sonia was super careful and remained clean.
Things I most like about it: navigation system (with traffic updates and new routes in case of heavy traffic), gmail, fige meg camera with a flash, radio, and anything one can wish for on Enternet. The only thing lacking is Skype... otherwise it is close to perfect. I was in a Thrift store to get some storage bins. After checking their price and comparing it to Wallmart, I opted for a new Rubbermaid bin from Wallmart, just for a few more dollars but much better one.
It took me a while to figure out what to do with his clothes collection ;-) He now has more clothes than any of us. 
On Saturday Sonia fell sick with fever... she got it as high as 104 but she fell all better by Sunday. 
Then Feo got sick on Monday. His fever didn't go as high.. just to 103.5. Sonia played at the Riverside gardens.
