Fantastic Four: This Weekend...

It's seven fifteen. Lunches are packed. The kitchen is cleaned up. The kids are in bed (not sleeping, but at least they're quiet). Wow - this is weird.

We had an excellent weekend. We got to see Grampa and Aunt Chrissy on Saturday. It was kind of a cruddy day outdoors, but everyone enjoyed the indoor picnic we had. Caroline has overcome her fear of water and practically ran in until she couldn't run anymore - and then did a faceplant. Thank goodness for Aunt Chrissy. Her stay in the water was shortlived, it being 65 degrees outdoors and all. I think the pictures will say it all...

Pictures provided courtesy of Caroline and Sam's Grampa:

Having fun on the blanket:

Only our daughter would get attached to an icepack and carry it around with her. She was even burping "Baby Blue".

She even kissed "Blue" and let him know, "it's okay, Blue. I help you." What an icepack would need help with (except getting back to the fridge), I'm not sure.

It took some doing to get her warm again after her dip in the lake.

Today we went to the Tornadoes Game. We had fun - the kids got free sundaes courtesy of one of the local supermarkets and it was a total blow out with Worcester on the winning end. We certainly can't complain about the ticket prices - we had a coupon and paid ten dollars for box seats. For all four of us. Unfortunately, they were in the sun, so we didn't last as long as we would have liked. We were very impressed and grateful to the staff that went out of their way to get us cups of ice for the kids and to let us know where the shady seats were (and for not giving us a hard time for sitting there). They have a tip-top operation running there. I'm really looking forward to taking everyone again. When it's not 90 degrees.

To beat the heat, after the game we took the kids in the pool. Caroline enjoys entertaining Sam. But we still have to keep and eye on her - she gets carried away (as you'll see)...