Ice Cream

Friday, we went to Kountry Kones with Con, Lindsey, and Giovanni. The girls loved their ice cream and Giovanni loved his mommy's milkshake. The children then burned off their extra energy with somersaults, Erin's latest talent. I didn't get too many pics because my ice cream was melting faster than I could eat. I looked just as bad as Erin except I didn't get it on my clothes! :) Check out Lindsey's site (link on the right) to see some of the great pics she got!

Making Pasta

The girls and I made some egg noddles from scratch. They did a great job helping me knead! I'm hoping to do this more often so that I can get quicker at rolling out and cutting the dough. The girls ate the noodles up! They were really tasty!

SUV

Putting the utility in Sport Utility Vehicle!

Erin loves to have her window down and feel the wind blowing in her face. She has started putting her hands in the air and screaming wee! It's hysyerical! She tries to get everyone to join her!

First Friday

Downtown has started an event the first Friday of the month called First Friday (http://cantonfirstfriday.com/default.aspx). It's held in the art district. We decided to check it out. There are several galleries in the area where you can see and purchase the work of local artists, a bunch of restaurants that run specials for the event, and local musicians that play in the streets and in the galleries and restaurants. This was the 1st anniversary of First Friday so they were giving away free cake! We looked for the remaining animal sculptures and found almost all of them! Erin pointed out and was very excited about the turtle sculpture. There's supposed to be activities for kids, but we missed them. I'll think we'll be checking this out again next month.

Swimming

We've been doing a lot of swimming this weekend. Saturday morning the kids have their lessons. George didn't have to work so he was able to watch both girls. Erin was such a ham during her class! She's usually calm and quiet, but this week she must have wanted to show off for baba. She had the instructor dying laughing. For one song we sing face goes under before putting the kids' face in the water. When I sang this Erin yelled no in response. The instructor and I giggled and I just couldn't bring myself to put her face in! Sammie passed the guppy level and is now in minnow I. She was so excited cause guppy is the hardest level to pass and she was at this level for 4 sessions. When they told her she had passed, she looked like she was going to burst! We are so proud of her and all of her hard work! Saturday evening the girls and I went swimming at grandma's. Sunday afternoon, we headed to grandma and grandpa Clapper's for even more swimming. The girls had fun jumping off of the diving board! Erin got upset everytime before she jumped off, but wanted to keep doing it!

Drive-In

We went to a drive-in movie Friday night. We try to go to one once every summer. This particular theater is just outside of Kent and is called Midway. (http://www.funflick.com/) It's only $16 a car and that's for 2 new movies!! We saw WallE, but didn't stay for the second movie cause everyone was really tired! We all had a great time and hope that we're able to go again before the end of summer!

Big Girl Cups and Cooking

The girls have been playing with plastic food lately. Erin came out of the kitchen the other day and told me she was cooking. After I put her down for nap, I went to clean up the mess from lunch and found that Erin was cooking, in a dirty pan that I had used to cook lunch in! Apparently she has seen enough cooking to get the basic idea. I have also started to teach her how to use a big girl cup. Although she prefers to mix her food into her cup insted of drinking from it! I'm sure after some more pratice she'll be just as good as Sammie is!