Summer Fun, part 11

 Liam enjoying his very first donut

Donuts invariably have egg (I've never tried to make my own), so Robin got a different sort of pastry

They rent bicycle surreys at Wash Park, and since the summer season will "officially" be ending at Labor Day, we decided that we'd better rent one or skip it for this year.  So we rented one.

Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry
When I take you out in the surrey
When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top

In one hour (just over) we made three loops of the park.  Don't know how far that was, but Dean and I were tired after (Robin's legs aren't long enough to let him properly help yet.)

Trying to "steer" (only one steering wheel actually worked, though I'm not sure he figured that out)

Liam having a go at "steering" too

Liam in a tube

Robin climbing a tube slide!

Learning to climb the chain ladders

A trip to the museum with one of Mama's old friends and her kids

Getting a story from Dr. Seuss:  There's No Place Like Space

 Liam wearing an astronaut pack

 Did you know that astronauts wear space suit capris?

Hmm, or maybe the bare legs are because the costumes were all size 18mos or 2T, and these kiddos have outgrown those sizes?  All except the littlest, who didn't want his zipped up.

Exploring in the kids' discovery zone

Playing on the rooftop terrace

They had a telescope set up with sun filters on it.  On one, you could see a yellow disc with a few black spots that were sunspots, and in the other, you saw a red disc with solar flares coming off the sides!  Pretty awesome!

My budding scientist went back probably half-a-dozen times for "another look."

We found this mini park along one of our bike rides in late summer.  All it has is this funky slide and a pair of swings.

In order to get up, you have to either climb the slide or climb this funky tree trunk thing.

The boys liked it for its novelty.  We took a small break from our bike ride to play around.

Summer Fun, part 10

We went down to Colorado Springs for an overnight trip, to visit Dean's grandma.  We took the boys to her pool on both days.

Trying to get Liam to float with Grammy

Dean playing with the reflection in my new, very blue sunglasses

This one is the new wallpaper on my computer

Whose toes are those?!

Whee!

Piggyback rides!

After a while, Robin realized that he could wade around in the three-foot-deep section by himself.

Putting the boys to bed in the hotel room across from Great Grandma's apartment was interesting, but not too difficult.  They had to share a bed, which was made more interesting by the fact that it was the first time Liam had slept in a bed.  Before we settled them down, Robin asked me "what if Liam falls off the bed?"  I replied "Then we'll all wake up and comfort him."  Well, Liam didn't fall out of bed at all.  He did just fine.  But guess who did fall out of bed, not once, but twice?  You guessed it!  But the thing was, he didn't even wake up.  The first time, I had taken a shower and parked myself just outside the door so I could get a little stuff done, and when we went back in, Robin was on the floor.  We brought the baby monitor with and he didn't cry or anything, so while Dean picked him up and put him back in bed, we wondered if Robin had just decided to move to the floor (maybe Liam had been moving around too much or something.)  But then shortly after Dean and I went to bed, we heard a loud THUMP and raced over to see Robin on the floor again.  Dean put him back in bed a second time, and then moved the back of the armchair against the bed so Robin had an obstacle--which we heard him bump into a few times throughout the night.  Yeesh!

The next day, we brought toys to the pool

Grammy laid out in the sun for a while after she was done swimming.  When we decided it was time to take the boys in too, Liam decided he wanted to be like Grammy

Liam's first Pear Pie ala Great Grandma

Robin recently discovered tire swings, and loves them!

Liam likes them too

Biking through the flowers

Reading to his boys

Once preschool starts, Robin's not going to be able to make storytime anymore, so I snagged some pictures on his last *regular* day (We'll still go on days off and such)

Posing with the librarian

Playing outside the library and in the fountain after storytime

Dean's been getting creative with photos, lately

Liam with a plumber's butt swimsuit

Summer's almost over!!!!!