Fenway!!

Jay and I escaped on a Sunday morning for an all day date.  Through a silent auction, we won VIP tour of the stadium, trip to the field before the game and tickets to the game.  Lots of fun.  Very hot but lucky for us, we were in the shade. 

"Can I take your order"

Paige LOVES to play waitress.  When she wants to play, she walks up and says, "What kind of pizza do you want?"  Jay and I get a kick out of how she plays this game.  Here is about how it goes:

Paige: What kind of pizza do you want?
Mom: I'll have a cheese pizza and a lemonade.
Paige: We don't have pizza and we don't have lemonade but we have lemon water and we have rainbow water and we have orange juice and we have blue or pink or yellow straws.
Mom: OK, I'll have a lemon water.
Paige: With a blue straw because that is your favorite color.  What else do you want to have?
Mom: I'll have some chicken and fries, do you have that?
Paige: Um, yes we have that.  (she walks away and comes back some time later)
Paige: Here you go!  Here is your rainbow water and a pink straw because pink is for girls.
Mom: I asked for lemon water and a blue straw.
Paige: (exaggeratedly) Oh mom! (then ignores my request)
Paige: (some time later) Here is your hot dog!
Mom: I didn't order a hot dog.  I ordered chicken and fries.
Paige: We don't have fries but we do have hot dogs. 
Paige: What else do you want to order?  What do you want for dessert?
Mom: Ice cream.
Paige: No mom, we don't have ice cream.  We have cookies only.  Do you want to have a cookie?
Mom: Yes.
Paige: But you can't have one because you didn't eat your chicken.

Paigeisms

"I can't hear you mom, I have my ear-folks on.  Just like the ear-folks you wear on the treadmill, mom"

"Are they lawning our yard outside" - as our lawn is being cut.

In the car and she is hot, "Put the windows downer mom!  More downer!"

While riding bikes around the neighborhood the other day, "When I ring the doorbell on my bike that means I need something or to get out of the way or I want to show you something."

Sailing...

Today, Luke finished 2 weeks of sailing camp at the NBYC (New Bedford Yacht Club) right down the street from us in the center of the village. 

He loved it!  From day one, he was so excited to go every day.  By the end of week one, he was using "sailor speak".  One of the days it was rainy so they played games and taught the kids all the terminology.  He officially knows more than I do about sailing.

Here are some pics the instructors sent.  All college kids run the program.  Spending your days on the water...not a bad camp to go to!!!

The last day with ALL the classes.

AARRRRRHHHH....

Thursday was pirate day at sailing camp.  The kids were to dress up, the camp was decked in pirate themed decorations, the instructors planned a treasure hunt and a lot more!  So we got our pirate gear ready and promptly got a fever and couldn't make it to pirate day :(  BUT we did get pictures in our cool costume.  Poor Luke...but he was back in action on Friday for his last day of camp.

Pit Stop -

On our way home from Ohio we stopped off in Hershey, PA to visit our friends.  We always have a great time and this visit was no different, except that we were lucky enough to have the Baldwin's join the gang (a girl for Paige to hang out with!!).  The kids get so excited to see Cooper and Brandt since they are all now good buds...vacation buddies!

Looks like Paige has had enough of the car -

 Finally there, havin' bfast with our friends -

Then it was off to the lake to combat the heat that followed up from Ohio to PA.  Paige and Brandt were too cute holding hands -

 Equally as good of friends, but not as touchy feely as Ms. Paige and Mr. Brandt.  Cooper let Luke bring his "big bag of snakes" so Luke was SUPER excited to put them to good use in the lake -

 Jay enjoyed doing flips off the floating dock...with all the 20 somethings -

 Snack break -

 Still holding hands on the way out, we gotta watch these two -

 Post dinner wind down and rehash -

Ohio...

We had another fun trip to Ohio for the July 4th week.  Very hot but it didn't seem to slow the kids down too much.  We managed it well with lots of water time!! 

Fishing at the pond.  Didn't last long, too hot and not enough biting for the kids to keep interest...

Lots of visitors that week.  My cousin came on Sunday with his three kids. Paige was loving having girls to hang out with for the day.  We broke out the slip n slide and the sprinkle which became staples the whole week...

Girls dancing for us all...

We headed to the Columbus Zoo first chance we got. The kids (especially Luke, our animal lover) always look forward to it...

Our first time at the Gahanna 4th of July parade. LOTS of candy, which Luke loved....

Jay - playing the part of the Midwest dad, very well I may add....

 Kids didn't sleep together by design but often ended up together...

 Grandpa and Paige....

To get out of the heat, we went to COSI one day - the children's science museum in downtown Columbus.  Another fav for the kids...

 I-MAX....3D!

 Water fun!

 Learned all about the animals and got to touch some...

Creekside for bfast on our last day and feeding the ducks...

Lots of time at the pool.  Kids LOVED it.  Didn't understand the concept of "adult swim" every hour on the hour but soon caught on.  Gotta learn the rules of the swim clubs kids....

Bumblebee Dance Recital Video

The video was too big to post here so I uploaded it to youtube at the below link.  I'll take it down in a week or so:

http://youtu.be/_QQnxRj-4iA