We just love a great Sunday afternoon with our friends at the beach! Daddy even went body surfing - he got out when he saw unknown fin nearby - he assumed it was a dolphin and we later confirmed it was, but still! Scott was so mad at me for not letting him get in and swim with Daddy!
Today we hit the zoo again! It was the perfect overcast (but not too cold) day!
Confession: yesterday it took me like 3 hours to do the dishes. This is actually not uncommon. I get distracted, say by a little boy who puts a grocery bag over his head (paper, see pictures) and runs around and thinks its hilarious, even when runs into things because he can't see. This just begs me to stop what I'm doing and do an impromptu craft. So we cut a window into the Whole Foods bag and TA-DA!!! Hours of fun! So thank you to my wonderful husband who comes home to half done dishes and moderately cluttered house and happily cleans up our "learning experience"!
Right after this picture was taken Scott got un "tuck" by ripping out of the bag incredible hulk style!
Scott's Daddy has been working super hard on the Farmer's Classic which is coming up in less than two weeks! Scott got to try on one of the cool visors his Daddy designed to show his support for Farmers and all his Daddy's hard work!
When Scott goes to play at Cardio Barre, his very favorite thing (if I've told this story before please bare with me) is to play with the plastic horses. There is a big bucket of plastic animals in the kids room, all types of animals, but Scott goes through the whole bucket and picks out ALL the horses and plays with them the whole hour. He shows each one to Sarah (and other kids who don't really care so much) and plays with them and gives them all kisses (and tries to get the other kids to kiss them too, it is a mystery to Scott why anyone would not love horses as much as he does and why they wouldn't want to kiss the plastic ones!). When we leave he says goodbye to the horses and gives them goodbye kisses. So I figured it was high time I bought him some plastic horses of his own.
Scott cannot get enough of his "neigh neigh" book (mentioned in previous post). Yesterday I found him in his bedroom reading it to himself having tucked himself into a blanket to sit with his bear. He loves this book!
These pictures are from tonight's BBQ @ Zoey's house, but I felt they were deserving of a post all their own! Stinkin' hilarious!
We just got done with a fun evening playing at Zoey's house! Zoey, Parker and Scott (the 3 muskateers if I've ever seen em) tore up the house in no time and we quickly moved them to the back yard where we played in the water table and set up the sprinklers for them to play in! SO.MUCH.FUN!
Parker J. even got an impromptu haircut post dinner and pre bath! Yeah, then the 3 muskateers took a bath together! Thanks for a great night Richards'!
7 Layer Greek Dip:
Who doesn't love sitting on the table in a diaper and coloring?
Scott has a new favorite book! It's his "neigh neigh boo(k)". Sarah and Abby gave Scott a National Geographic book called Wild Ponies. Abby had a copy when she was little and she evidently loved it so they thought it would be a great gift for Scott since he loves horses so much. Scott has taken to only wanting to read the pages of his books that have horses on them, so what a great book that has horses on every page! I have already lost count of the number of times we've read it. When Scott gets up in the morning the first thing he asks for is "ma (my) neigh neigh". His whole life (since he's starting talking and eating solids) the first thing he's asked for is his breakfast banana - horses trump food! WOW! This picture is of the day Scott got the book....he couldn't wait to show Daddy when he got home and tell him all about every page....so much so that we didn't even wait for Daddy to get in the house....we read it in the driveway! Thanks Sarah and Abby - we love it!!!
This past week we hit the splash park in simi! Glorious! It has been insanely hot lately (and randomly humid for CA) so this was a great way to spend an afternoon. Hilary and I went with the boys and Sarah and Abby, can I just say how lucky we are to have great friends like them. Abby is so sweet and patient with the boys and of course they love Sarah too! 
Our 4th of July was terrific this year...as usual! We headed down to The Johnson's for fun, friends, food and fireworks!
As always, a wonderful day and a wonderful celebration! Thank you Johnsons for hosting us for such a fabulous day! Unfortunately Scott was way too tired to make it for fireworks so we headed home not too long after this picture was taken!
