Friday, July 30, 2010

Where did July Go?


I am not sure where the month of July has gone. It seems like it was the 4th of July yesterday. Joey and I have been enjoying our month of summer. We have spent many mornings reading stories and singing songs at the library story hour. We have spent our evening at swim class. We played in the backyard with Moe and splashed around in the wading pool. We have gone to the beach and the park. All in all, we have had a spectacular and busy month. Luckily for us, it has not been unbearably warm, in fact it has been a little cool.
We were able to take a little trip to Oxnard with grandma to spend a few wonderful days by the beach. Joey spent hours in the pool splashing around and practicing his kicking and rowing.Joey is enjoying a little juice post swim. I am sure he is eyeing the pool. He is certainly a water baby.
We visited and played at the Gull Stream Children's Museum in Oxnard. A great place for kids if you happen to be in the area.
Joey and did a lot of swimming together.
Here is my happy little guy poolside.

Another big adventure this month was the day we spent with grandma and grandpa boating. We spent the day at Lake Castaic. Joey enjoyed himself once he got over the fact that he had to wear his life jacket the entire time.

In fact, he enjoyed himself so much that he fell asleep while sitting up in my lap. I guess all that fresh air tires a guy out.
After our boating adventure, Joey got to play with bubbles, which is his new word. He tries to blow bubble by blowing on the wand, but then he tends to eat the wand. He has yet to produce any bubbles.

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Summer is Here ....

and we are ready. Joey has is beach chair and is testing it out before our Oxnard beach trip. I would say he looks pretty comfy in the chair and is ready for some relaxation and fun.
Summer also brings on jam making. Here are my peach butter jars cooling after their processing. I cannot wait for a cool "winter" morning to crack open a jar and have the warm fuzzy feeling of summer in a jar.

This summer's home improvement project was installing sprinklers and Joey, who is a water baby, thought that this was a great project. I foresee many summer afternoons of Joey running through the sprinklers.