Up at the Lake

Hi there,
Here are a few more photos from our trip up to the lake. Grandpa Dick took them...he's a much better photographer than I.

We had a few firsts that I forgot to mention while we were up there: Miss Mary had her first dip in the lake (the shallow water was like bathwater!) and her first non-milk food: Watermelon. The best part? She ate her first real food WHILE she was in her first lake dip! Yup...a two-fer.

Julia also had a fun time...the last time we were up there (April 08), we tried her on a tricycle because my parents have this huge blacktop driveway that we dubbed "the parking lot." We thought it would be a great place to try a new trike.... Well, even after daddy/grandpa duck taped wooden blocks to the pedals to make them easier for her to reach, she still wasn't able to grasp the coordination. (She's my daughter, after all....) Well, this time, we put her on the trike and off she went! She rode for hours. Mommy was pleased. Grandpa Dick spent a lot of time with her on the trike, teaching her and keeping her from crashing over the hose/basketball hoop/etc.

One more fun story: mom and I went swimming for "just five minutes' out over the drop off...and left the two diaperless girls on the pontoon with grandpa Dick. When we returned, we learned that diaperless Mary had peed all over grandpa's arm. One of the neighbors was over talking to grandpa. Miss Diaperless Julia decided she wanted more attention....and so she shouted, "I pooped!" Sure enough, in the corner of the pontoon, there was evidence that we had indeed eaten corn for supper the night before. It gets worse: two seconds later, my sister's puppy, Sofie, came on the pontoon and gobbled up the poo. Mmmmm....corn. Our neighbor was so impressed with our kids that he left right after that....