Friday, July 8, 2011

Random Happenings, 4th of July, and the dreaded croup!

First the Random Happenings.  Matt continues to work on using the potty.  Sometimes it happens, sometimes not, but he's working on it. I'm hoping we can get him trained before the arrival of Baby Sister, so that Jamie and I only have to deal with washing diapers for 1!

He has now graduated to a big boy room, no more crib!  

It took a little adjusting, but he's now loving it.

Matt's much faster than he used to be and the cats no longer stand much of a chance.  


Chicken is pretty tolerant with him though, and he gets daily cuddle time.

Jamie thought she heard a mouse in the house the other day, so Matt and I went mouse hunting.  Didn't get any though.

What a clown...

At the urging of our new neighbors we decided to head down to the new beach property over the 4th.  They claimed the fireworks show would be fantastic, and they were right!  Most of the community is on the hill above the beach, so they all come down to the community center and boat launch for the 4th.  The show went on for about 4 hours.

The Clampets have arrived!

Little yellow finches were everywhere for some reason

Headed to the beach with Auntie and Grandma

Matt, prepared for the sun and noise

Auntie bought him a bug catcher vacuum.  He caught a lot of stuff, but no bugs.  This was catching farts.

And firework confetti

Dump truck in the pool?
 Before he actually passed out for his nap, we all heard from inside the camper "Monkey Bars!" at which point his end of the camper collapsed. Apparently it's not designed to have 2 year olds hanging from it.
Too much fun.  

Getting Ready....
The neighbors setting up for the show.

These guys showed up with a literal boat load of fireworks.

He had it rigged to launch with a garage door remote...

Getting ready to watch the show!

Fireworks!



The calm after the 4th.

When Matt woke up on the 5th he wasn't feeling well.  We though he was tired and had too much junk food, but turns out he's got the croup.  He's lost his voice now and is so sad to listen to, but he tries.
Poor Monkey

Hope everyone had a great 4th of July!

Jake

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

dear J&J,
where are the cowboy pics???