I really don't know what happened to the summer. It went by so fast and I can't believe the weather is cooling down already. I realized there are a lot of pictures from the summer I haven't posted so here they are. Some of this is kind of random!
For this being our first year doing a garden, I think we did pretty good. I learned not to ignore the squash or zucchini for very long, or this is what happens. I think I picked about 6 zucchini, 7 or 8 yellow squash, and all those green beans in one day. I was able to can the green beans, but some of the rest of that had to be given to neighbors or fed to the neighbors pigs! Next year I will only do one plant each of squash and zucchini instead of 2!
For this being our first year doing a garden, I think we did pretty good. I learned not to ignore the squash or zucchini for very long, or this is what happens. I think I picked about 6 zucchini, 7 or 8 yellow squash, and all those green beans in one day. I was able to can the green beans, but some of the rest of that had to be given to neighbors or fed to the neighbors pigs! Next year I will only do one plant each of squash and zucchini instead of 2!
I am not sure how this zucchini managed to grow unnoticed for so long, but this one was huge. It weighed pretty close to what Connor weighs. Something of this size I thought should go to Manookin's newest pig, who I call Big Daddy (don't know what they call him) and is in the picture below. The pig is huge so we went out to the farm and Josh got to give him the huge zucchini and we helped feed the pigs.
He seemed to enjoy being in the pig pen with the little pigs.
I was outside one day doing some yard work or something when Gary came home from somewhere. I thought it was pretty funny that Sydney and Josh seemed equally happy to see him since they both ran up to the door of the car to greet him.
Sydney jumped right through the window, so Josh had to get in the car too. Sydney loves going places in the car.
One nice thing about summer is being able to give the dog a bath outside! I end up almost as wet as her.
This is Josh and his friend Logan. I think they must be getting excited for Halloween or something. Logan lives a couple houses down and they have been pals all summer long. It has been wonderful for Josh to have someone to play with that lives so close. They get along great. Logan's parents just put their house up for sale though, and I'm not sure if I was more disappointed or if Josh was. Josh wants to sale our house now so we can move with them and still be neighbors.
Josh recently acquired a pillow pet (thanks Grammy!!) that he's become attached to. He and Connor each have one that they trade around. It has begun to accompany him where ever he goes and he even buckles it up in the car.
Over the past couple months, Connor has acquired some new hobbies. One of them is spending time with the dog. He seems to like to sit next to the dog whether we've got the door open to the screen or whether it is closed. Connor seems to like to visit Sydney and sometimes chat with her.
Josh figured out how to hang on to Connor's fingers and help him walk around the house. They both think it is great fun. Connor loves to walk around with help. He took his first steps a few days after his birthday and is getting better and better at taking steps. He'll let go of furniture and take a few steps to me without hanging on to anything and will giggle as he does it. He thinks walking is great fun.
Connor loves to get in my Tupperware cupboard. He's so small that he fits a little too perfectly inside. At night when I go to bed sometimes I think about what a great job he does setting booby traps around my house. There seems to always be a pile of Tupperware on the kitchen floor, and all sorts of goo accumulated on the floor around his high chair. Then there are various piles of toys strewn about the front room and other areas of the house. I can't seem to keep up with him and at the end of the day when I'm too tired to clean it all up, I think to myself that if anyone ever tries breaking into this house I feel sorry for them. Between Connor's booby traps and the Marine I sleep next to, a robber just would not stand a chance.
Connor thinks it is quite amusing to pull the wipes out one by one. He knows how to open the container, and did it several times before I finally started to remember to put the wipes away after diaper changes. I have to be equally careful with boxes of tissue because he does the same thing with that too.
Josh started preschool a little over a month ago at the elementary school. It's twice a week for 2 1/2 hours and since we live in a title 1 area, it is free! Josh never lets Connor near the whiteboard (which is good because of the markers) but one morning while Josh was gone, Connor had this grin on his face that just told me he thought it was great that he was finally finding opportunities to get into his brother's stuff while Josh is at school.
