Exploring

I took the kids out on a trail closeby our house the other day. I didn't want to walk very far, and they mostly wanted to explore, so that's what we did. Olivia's report of what we saw: 5 lizards, 3 horses, 3 big tadpoles, 2 crawdads (but one was dead), and tons of dragonflies.

Olivia and Jackson's favorite thing to see was the tadpoles.

Katelyn's favorite was the horse poop.

Parade and B-day

All fireworks in our area were cancelled this year - something about not wanting to start more forest fires when we already have a few burning nearby (like the biggest one in state's history). That takes a lot of the fun out of the 4th of July. But we still had the local parade.
Look at this float - familiar words?

To try to make up for the firework-free evening, we decided to go to the park and feed the ducks.

This is what we found at the ducks' usual hangout spot. A huge pile of hamburger buns and no ducks. A few others had had the same idea we did, so the ducks weren't too hungry for our old bread. That and the rain that started as soon as we got there ended our outing pretty quickly.

We celebrated John's birthday a few days later. We gave him a new weed whacker to play with.

The last few months it seems I've lost some blogging inspiration, but I'm hoping to get some back and start blogging more again!

The Arm

Here's Jackson the ortho office, waiting for them to put the cast on. He had to wait a week for the swelling to go down.

Still looks a little swollen/misshaped. Hope it will look normal when cast comes off! You can see the caps on the end of the pins sticking out.

He should be able to get his cast off tomorrow! But it hasn't slowed him down much, as you can see. And he's figured out it makes a good club to whack his sisters with from time to time. He might even miss that bright green itchy thing.