Big day

Happy 2nd birthday to cousin Parker! Hard to believe he's 2 already. Sorry we had to miss your party.


We spent the weekend at the lake, attempting to do some house and dock repairs from storm damage (very minor). On Saturday, we stopped by a friend's daughter's 6th birthday party and were amazed at everything they had. You can see Jack and Andy riding the carnival ride above.

Jack also amazed us by how gung-ho he was to do everything. He's always been a little timid and hesitant to try new things, but he sure came out of his shell at the party. He wanted to do everything and went full-steam ahead the entire afternoon.

Petting some baby animals at the little petting zoo.

Jack and me being pulled by a pony.

Spinning around

He still doesn't like to get his hands messy! Here's the almost no-hands approach at eating a cupcake.

Dad and Jack in the bounce house. We could not get Jack out of this thing.

By the time we did finally drag him out, he was so red and sweaty that he insisted on going in the lake. We didn't have his swimsuit with us, but he barged right into the water in a diaper.

Toward the end of the afternoon (after he had gotten dressed from being in the lake), Jack stumbled backwards into kiddie pool and got his shorts all wet. So this is how he looked for the rest of the party. Classy!

Charlotte was there too! Here she is making some funny faces.

I don't know if this picture will show up big enough on the blog to really see, but I finally snapped a shot with her tooth in it. She's kind of doing one of her bulldog faces here, poking her lower jaw out to feel her tooth. It's her center, lower tooth, on her right side.

She is finally starting to get some other teeth, though they're either still below her gums or have just recently broken though, so it'll be a while before they're really visible. She's only had the 1 tooth for close to 3 months now. It's so funny to see that 1 big tooth in her mouth, and nothing else :)