Savoring the moments

We're trying to savor every last moment of summertime weather that we can. It seems that cold weather is just around the corner, so we're spending every possible moment outside. In fact, we've taken to bringing various "inside toys" outside, just so we can enjoy the sunshine and warmth while it lasts. Here's a few shots of our outside fun.

Kate was just hanging out on her blanket one afternoon last week while Anna was sleeping and a big, fuzzy caterpillar crawled onto her blanket. She didn't know quite what to make of it, so she just kept staring.

Anna and I made some leaf collages the other day by gluing leaves to paper (certainly simple, but very engaging for Anna). She thought it was great :) Then we had a conversation something like this ...

me: Let's find another leaf.
Anna: (looking up) The leaves are (pause) falling from the tree.
me: (thinking *teachable moment*) We call this time of year FALL because the leaves FALL from the trees.



A lot of our evening activities take place on our driveway. Kate goes between the baby tent, Daddy's arms, the bumbo, Mommy's arms, the blue rocking chair, Daddy's arms, Mommy's arms, etc. smiling most of the time. She's mainly happiest when she can see what her big sister is up to.




And finally, Matt thought it would be fun to spin Anna around in his arms. She LOVED it and kept asking for it until Matt finally told her that he would throw up if he "spinned" her one more time. Not only was the actual spinning hilarious, but watching Anna try to walk afterwards was pretty funny, too.