Quiet Day at Home

 

Here they are working on their handicrafts.Daniel was hammering a nail in the board. (He got it in a little ways, maybe a 1/16th of an inch.)

Princess Reagan is painting a block we were going to make into dice for a game. Sometimes it's just nice to spend a day at home...

Takhu Lake

 

About half a mile from our house is Takhu lake. We finally made it down there to see it.

 

It is so gorgeous! I love this beautiful place we live in!

4th of July

 Yes I'm slow at getting my blog updated but hey I have almost a whole week of posts to catch you up written and waiting to be published. Here are some pictures from our 4th of July.

We walked around and looked at things on the "park strip" downtown. It is really reminiscent of the National Mall and makes me a bit homesick every time I see it. We got to see this handsome fellow. Have you ever been this close to a Bald Eagle? He kept an eye on all of us with his head rotating all the way around as he watched everyone. 

Here the kids are waiting for the parade to start. Which it did... 40 mins. late. I wondered which self important politician made it that late. It was quite a wait.

 

Miss Reagan who will never put her shoes on the right feet.

 I liked these bikes and the hats. I'd hate to fall off the last one though!

Bet you don't have 50 year old Reindeer in your parades. I've forgotten what her name was but she has participated in the Anchorage 4th of July every year since her birth.

 

Cool old fire trucks.

 This was really cool. It was the size of a car and they were actually driving it. 

My favorite part was the bagpipes. Reagan loved all the beautiful dresses that went by, and Daniel's favorite was the military men and women.

Those Elusive Summer Days

 

Every once in awhile in Anchorage we get beautiful summer days where we have sunshine and push the thermometer up to almost 70. This was one of those in June. The rest of the time we have gloomy rainy weather in the 50's. This is Campbell Creek which was also featured in a recent post. It also runs close by our house.

 

Alaska kids are tough! That water is about 35 degrees. Way too cold for this girl, but the kids can't get enough of it and there were about 30 other kids out there as well.

 So unbelievably happy to be out side playing in the water!

Daniel's vision Exercises

We thought we would show you Daniel's vision exercises that he has been doing lately. This is to help center his body so that his eyes can work properly and together. This will be the first of many exercises he will have to learn to hopefully be able to improve things like hand eye coordination, and focusing. He does them twice a day.

Chive Soup

 

This reminded me of my brother Daniel SO much. Reagan came home from the garden with Chive flowers that she had picked and wanted to make soup with them. My brother used to go out and pick wild garlic and make soup with it. His tasted a lot better than her's did. Here she has chives and the flowers from the chive plants, radishes, sugar, cinnamon and one piece of Trix cereal for some added flavor. She quickly decided that it didn't taste very good. But she had fun making it.

And this was the first strawberry of the year. SO delicious!!! It went promptly into my mouth, though I did share the next one I found with Reagan.

Kids Say the Darndest Things!

Reagan describing a Swifter- It's not a mop cleaning thing. It's a get the floor wet and slide thing!"
Daniel- We were leaving Walgreens and saw an employee smoking. Before I could stop him Daniel walked up to the guy and said "You need to not let me smell your smoke. Cause that's not good!" (Dying laughing privately as we walked away!)
Reagan- While at the garden she picked a bunch of dandelions. As we were driving home I could hear her in the back of the car saying, "He loves me, he loves me, he loves me" as she picked each petal off. This girl doesn't take chances on love!
Daniel and Paul playing with Lego's.
           Paul- Why does Harry Potter have a blaster gun (from Star Wars)?
           Daniel- Because he forgot and left his wand at Dr. Gosh's office.
      (They were talking about them as if they were real!)
Reagan- Yelling at me and I told her to talk nice. Her reply? "It's not working."