4th of July weekend

Finally we are putting up pictures from the 4th of July weekend. We went to an unconventional baby shower for our cousins Nick and Tiia. If you can guess the game in the second picture, you win some sort of prize.

 It might help you guess to know there were two pink balloons on the other side.

Isaac and I went for a walk on the beach. The wind was constantly blowing what felt like 20 miles an hour at least. We enjoyed some time on the downwind side of some driftwood.

Isaac is able to find the joy in any situation. We also saw fireworks that night.

 Isaac was pretty nervous about the big booms, and would not allow himself to be held by anyone but Nana.

 The next day we had lunch at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Isaac sat in Grandpa Wally's chair.

 Isaac took a bath in his old bathtub, which we have lent to baby London.

The fireworks video ended up here, and I was having trouble moving it.

 And I finally finished that scarf I had been working on while we were at Nana's house.

It was a good weekend!

move

Here are some videos from the week of our move.

So sad to leave where we were. It was just so nice to have all the kids around. But Isaac is adjusting to the "new house" pretty well. He has had his moments of confusion, but I think he likes the stairs being inside the "house"! One night, he went to sleep with Papa, and woke up a little upset that he wasn't where he was used to being. He ran out of the one room and into the bathroom. We said, "Isaac, wrong door!"

Isaac has started asking "What?", not "why?" yet, although he did ask just once the other day.

He also said, when we were at the library the other day and he was looking at a brother and sister with their mama. He said, "Mama, I want a sister."

"Oh," I said, "you want a sister now?" He has been saying he wants a brother so this was a change.

"And I want a brother too," he added.

So Isaac would like two siblings. A sister and a brother. Maybe I can have fraternal twins sometime. :)

We are kind of disconnected from the internet and phone right now. It is kind of nice in a way, although somewhat inconvenient to come to the library all the time. Oh well! We'll see how long we do it for.

strawberries

Sorry, I don't have any pictures...

But before we go off for the 4th of July weekend, I wanted to just write quickly.

We went strawberry picking with our cousins Erin, Lucia, Malachai and Peter on Friday. It was fun! Isaac had more fun eating the berries than picking them, but we got our bucket eventually. Letting him eat the berries was the main reason we went, because our strawberry patch has stopped producing. Anyway, Isaac had fun with his cousins running around and exploring all the other things they had on the farm, like a playground, goats, and a "panning for rare gems" water thing they had. He was really tired afterwards and fell asleep on the way home. Mama got a sunburn (oops). I wish I could have taken pictures, but the memory card on the camera was full, so I didn't bring it. Next time, I will though.

Then, I made jam with a lot of the strawberries, and was happy that all the jars sealed (even one that I couldn't fill all the way). Man, canning supplies can be expensive! Luckily, I went door to door trying to find something that would work for canning pint jars, and it turned out one of my neighbors actually had a canner. It worked really well.

That's about it, I guess! I'm glad we got to the strawberries before the end of the season and was even more glad that we got to go with our cousins.