Lake Weekend

We had a fun weekend at Dead Lake with some of our friends we invited out with their kids. Brynn played really nicely with the littler kids even though she was quite a few years older than the rest. It was a pretty busy day, but we all had a good time.

Brynn scraped up the bottom of her foot pretty badly while swimming.

Brynn really took to this older neighbor guy, Russ. She went over to visit him any chance she got. I 

never was really over there with her to know, but can only imagine how many questions she must have asked him. She and Grandpa went over to bring him some food on Saturday. She's still talking about him.

Clara and Chris drawing.

Brynn got to sleep with Grandpa

Watching Brynn's shows with the same 'tv watching face.' ;-) 

Brynn soaking her sliced foot and drawing a picture of Sponge Bob.

At the end of the lake cabin road, up popped a book share library. Brynn found a fun craft book and then brought a couple of Grandma's books back to exchange. And she found a cribbage game, but left that in the little hut.

Had to stop for ice cream on the way home.

Brynn has a daily school assignment to read 20 minutes, so she decided to start in on "Charlotte's Web." She tried to tell me that she got halfway through the book in her 20 minutes. After some further discussion tonight on how unlikely that was and another talk about being truthful, she had to start back at the beginning.

Brynn disappeared for about an hour around supper time last night. Dana was outside working on the landscaping, so Clara and I just ate by ourselves, as Brynn was apparently too busy downstairs with her project to come up to eat when I told her supper was ready. Clara and I cleaned up and played a bit before we finally headed downstairs to see what Brynnie was up to so intently. She was quilting! It was pretty amazing. She got a hold of my sewing kit and with a needle and thread, hand-sewed her fabric scraps together. And even managed to sew a button on.

Showing Daddy. He was quite impressed.

While Brynn was playing Betsy Ross downstairs, Clara was upstairs and into shenanigans as usual. We had quesadillas and went she got our of her high chair, some fell to the floor which she promptly got into her clutches. Those scraps of quesadilla really had an adventure around the kitchen. First she stuck it in the dishwasher soap reservoir and then shut it, then she found her favorite little glass bowl in the cupboard and put them in there, ate a little more of it and then set it on the shelf in the cupboard. Silly girl.  

She has really started to put objects in bowls and such now which is exciting to watch her develop more skills like that. She is standing more and more and for longer periods on her own, and only will take a couple of steps at a time. And she started blowing kisses now too. She loves the 'Five Little Monkeys' book and if she gets ready to read it, she also gets her finger out and ready for the 'no more monkeys jumping on the bed' parts. She loves the "Wheels on the Bus" song and knows some of the actions.