Summer Days

Julia trying to figure out this Popsicle thing!

This is what I LOVE about Wynne' Farmer's market on Tuesday afternoons........everything you see here for $4.50.

We spent Father's Day relaxing around the house. My family came over for lunch and I had slow cooked a roast in the crock pot....per John's request after me telling him that I would fix anything he wanted for lunch in honor of Father's Day! You can see what we spend our time doing. Julia sits in a chair like the queen and entertains us and we all basically sit around her and let her be the queen! She likes to read to us, but needs our undivided attention. She looks up to make sure that we are all anxiously anticipating her next revelation. If we are distracted for any reason, she loudly says our name to get our attention back to the reading.

John ran to Wal Mart Saturday morning to pick up some milk and came home with a swimming pool for Julia, two lawn chairs and some milk. It was well worth the money and I couldn't think of much else that I had of rather been doing that morning that sitting outside under the tree in my new lawn chair watching Julia have a blast in her $15 swimming pool (yep....I SWORE I would never pollute my lawn with one of those hideous things!).

I was terribly wounded several times last weekend when I walked in Julia's room to get her after a nap or when she woke up in the morning and she quickly looked past me and said, "Wheys Daddy?" I decided to let him go get her once so that I could see what he was doing that made her want him to get her so much. Well, this explains it all.....

He puts her blanket over her bed and makes a tent. She peeks out from from underneath.

Then, she stands up and screams, "Pee pie!" I personally witnessed this activity being repeated over and over again for at least 20 minutes before she finally got out of bed. Wow, no wonder she's looking for Daddy.

John was asked to do a library summer reading program in Cherry Valley last week for the kids. The theme this year was Be Creative and the librarian thought it would be neat to have a musician come and show some creative talent. John was a little nervous at the thought of entertaining these kids for 30 minutes, but did a great job. He ended his talk by having them make their own guitars out of plastic containers with different width rubber bands. He gets all the credit for this idea because he told me the story of his first guitar which he made out of a cigar box and rubber bands. This picture shows him demonstrating his guitar.

John is a pretty cool guy.

Just an interesting FYI for you city folks.....these kids at Cherry Valley (population 710) check out their library books out of these LLBean bags. Two retired school teachers go to the city library (Wynne-population 7,500) and pack these bags full of books. Then, they drive them 20 miles to Cherry Valley so that these kids can check out their books for the week. They hand write their names and which books they have borrowed!

So, today I bought Julia a package Sesame Street big girl panties. They worked really well.....for the first 20 minutes.