Cousin Time - Part 4 - Playtime

 

My mom and I took Hope, Juliana, Jenna and Bailee to the playground.  We stopped at Subway to get a picnic lunch to eat before we played.

 Bailee

 Jenna looked after Juliana a lot, as she usually does.

 Juliana loves the slide.

 We took a walk to see a pond and watch some people fish.

 One of the guys we saw fishing let Hope and Juliana touch a fish he had just caught.

 Then we went to Jenna's house to see her chickens.

 Juliana got to feed them.

 Then we took a walk down to my Grandma's.  Too bad it wasn't to see my Grandma.

 Hope - 2013

 

Hope - 2010 (this time we were going to see my Grandma)

 



Hope: 2013

Hope: 2010



 

Hope caught some slugs

 

We took a walk on the 'rocky road.'

 

My sleeping beauty (one of them)

Cousin Time - Part 3, Idlewild Park

The girls enjoyed their first trip to Idlewild Park with their cousins.

 

Juliana eyed up the Hoot-n-Holler train

 And she made some webbed feet friends

 All aboard!

 Such serious business

 The kids rode a few rides

 The girls are in the red and purple cages at the top.  

 It rained for a while, so we found some cover and watched it.

 The kids shared a funnel cake

 Hope splashed in the puddles

 Then the weather cleared off and we had a fun time in the water park. The water park photos stop here.  Hope loved splashing around and she enjoyed the wave pool.  She loved the idea of water slides, but really didn't like getting water in her eyes.  Juliana, again, had no fear.  She absolutely loved the water slides.

 Juliana fell asleep on the way out of the park.

Cousin Time - Part 2, Storybook Forest

My life has come full circle.  I took the girls to a park that I loved to visit as a child.

 

We had a cousins outing to Storybook Forest.  Hope was the perfect age for it.  She is at the point that she loves little fables and nursery rhymes (which she calls "those silly little stories"), which is what Storybook Forest is all about.

 

We saw a little pond with some frogs - Hope's new favorite animal. 

 The Good Ship Lollipop

 Juliana's lollipop treat from the ship

 Juliana and Leah in The Little Engine that Could.

 The Three Billy Goats Gruff

 Three Blind Mice

 The Three Bears' cottage

 Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater

 This Little Piggy Went to the Market

Bailee did too

 Jack and Jill

 Snow White - Hope warned her not to eat the apple.

 Humpty Dumpty

 Old King Cole

 The gang - Leah, Devin, Juliana, Jenna, Hope, Bailee and Leah and Devin's other cousin, Cobey.

 

A flashback to 1978 when I was four and Kathy was six years old.

 The Goodship Lollipop

 Little Miss Muffet - I am wishing I would have gotten a picture of Hope and Juliana in this same spot.

 Jack in the Box

Cousin Time - Part 1

We visited my parents for a long weekend at the end of June, and then the following week, my sister visited and brought all of my nieces and nephews too.  So the girls recently have had a lot of cousin time.  We did a lot of summer activities together and it was a lot of fun.

 

Day 1 - I had scheduled a cousins photo shoot a couple a months ago.  Unfortunately, it was rained out. 

 

Hope - ready for the photo shoot that didn't happen.

 So we took the kids to Ci Ci's Pizza for lunch and the kids played games after eating. 

 

Bailee and Hope 

 Devin and Hope

 Then we stopped at Walmart for snacks and drinks for our planned adventure on Day 2 - Idlewild Park.  Hope took a little rest in the seasonal dept.

 She tried on some reading glasses - I think she looks adorable in this pair.....

 And in this pair.

And that was our rainy Thursday.  Stay tuned for more pictures from our cousin adventures.

Our Pets

Since we do not have any pets that live in our house, Hope refers to the wildlife that lives in our back yard as her pets.  Here is the Momma and two baby deer that come in most evenings and some mornings to graze through our yard.

 

 

The fawns still have their spots - they like to run and chase each other, just like any human siblings.