Summer 2012

I'm feeling guilty about keeping up here with our "baby book." This is a very brief rewind of our summer. We spent a weekend or two at Beaver Lake with friends. Rowan did much better this year swimming (with a life jacket) and Ryder, well, she still prefers the bathtub. 

Don't judge us for the beer. It was probably lake water, really, most likely lake water. And if you are wondering if Rowan lost his two front teeth, yep he did. I'm going to save the long version for another time, but he fell at the farmer's market and hit his mouth. An ER visit followed by an emergency dentist visit later he was without his two front, top teeth. It was traumatic for all of us and we still cringe when we think about that day. Rowan is fine and would love to tell you his story some time. 

We saw this double rainbow from our front porch. It just so happened to coincide with a weekend when Rowan really fell in love with Max and Ruby. In particular, an episode where Ruby teaches Max how to paint a rainbow. It was perfect.

We traveled to Kansas City to see Phish. 

They had fun and then passed out in the stroller, just as planned. Yeah, so maybe we walked 3 miles during set break but we were rewarded with a relaxing second set.

The next morning we woke up and went to the zoo. It was the 2nd best zoo I've been to. San Diego being #1.

We went home to Texas for two whole weeks. We are chronically terrible at taking photos on this trip, but I did snap a few. These are from an ice cream shop on Main Street in Fredericksburg. You can no longer buy or order food for Rowan and leave Miss Mae out. She will protest. Rowan is vanilla, all the time, but on this day he went out on a limb and ordered sprinkles. He hasn't ordered them since.

Ryder rode in the Jeep with Rowan for the first time while we were in Texas. If you ignore the "whiplash" when accelerating, you'll see that she loves it.

These were taken at the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus.

 

The kids and I made a trip to Beaver Creek, Colorado to meet up with the Masons. It was a nice relief from the heat, not to mention great company and views. We went to a 4th of July parade. 

Rowan hiked up a real mountain for the first time. He made it about 20 minutes up and was ready to go back down. Not shabby for a three year old. 

He played his first putt putt golf game. He was about 85-90 over par but he had fun nonetheless.

And of course there were a million other things we did but you get the idea. We had lots of fun and now my children will have a little tiny glimpse into their Summer of 2012. Rowan is getting back in his routine of going to school and we are getting a little nervous about winter since it seems fall has skipped us over.