I was in the kitchen doing something pretty zoned out and I kept hearing Drew bouncing in the exersaucer. He has always been a really active guy in the saucer so I tune it out. After a few minutes, I looked over to where he was supposed to be and it was empty space. I looked down and he had traveled a few feet all by himself, bouncing along. He was pretty pleased with himself. Here is Drew in the saucer, I should get some video soon, because it is quite a racket.

The other day I gave Evan some raisins and strawberries, in another futile attempt to get him to eat fresh fruit. He didn't eat the raisins and later I found them on Drew's exersaucer. I was pretty surprised Evan had put them there, and a little unnerved that such a choking hazard was sitting on the saucer for a few hours without my knowledge. Drew hadn't gone into the saucer while they were on though so I cleaned them up and quickly forgot about it.

Today James and I were vacuuming the stairs (it is a 2 man job) while Evan played and Drew was safely stowed in the saucer. Then we are finishing up and James calls me over saying "Drew got into something." I come over and Drew has red all over his face and there is read smeared all over the exersaucer tray and his hands. Then I see it, a mangled strawberry. I had forgotten about the strawberry I had given Evan which he had not eaten the day before. Then he must have put that in the saucer too and Drew had a little fun with it. Luckily, Drew had his binky in, so no strawberry made it into his mouth but he did enjoy it otherwise.

Evan being cute laying on the floor and sitting at the table. The week before last, Evan was ill with a mystery sore-throat and fever combo. This week we had an awful heat wave, as I am sure many of you experienced as well. We couldn't go out and after 2 weeks, we all really had some cabin fever.






Today was our neighborhood community and we got out of the house as a family for the first time in a couple of months. James is back in school and that coupled with the heat and sickness has kept us from doing something fun for a while! Evan was VERY excited that we were going to eat hot dogs. He was talking about it all day. Drew joined us eating some puffs. I was surprised at how brave Evan was while we were up there. He went into a giant blown up caterpillar tunnel (with me) and then bounced around in a bounce house all by himself! We also were able to see a fire truck so it was a good day.











A picture James snapped in a former pond on the way home.



Finally, a picture of me. No more red hair. I had to take it this way because no one ever takes a picture of me, I am always the one behind the camera. :( I have also lost 10 pounds as a result of training for a 5K at the end of September.