Boingy Hop

Meet the newest member of the Kadue terrarium... "Boingy Hop".  He is the 4th frog to join the party.  Emma Claire and Brad catch bugs for the frog family and make a cricket run to Pet Smart once a week.

First Raspberries

Brad planted raspberry bushes in the backyard this year.  We have been harvesting our first raspberries, eating them as fast as we can pick them.

Swimming

Lessons are going well.  Emma Claire is now swimming short distances on her own and has made real progress in confidence and Arnold just plain loves the water.  

Sweet Boy

Playing at our after dinner favorite spot - Meadowbrook playground. 

Water Days

This was our first year to try parks and rec water day at Scheid Park.  Emma Claire desperately wanted to go, so we fought the crowd and managed one ride down the huge tarp and some time at the Puppet Wagon.

Sunflower

Milestone

It happened.  Arnold made the great escape from his crib.   

He made the leap at almost the exact same age as Emma Claire did.  Brad switched the rail out for the toddler bed conversion.  Arnold was so excited that he was able to freely climb in and out of his "big boy bed". Emma Claire was every bit as thrilled for him.

For this milestone, I am SO happy to have the Arnold cam.  It is better than TV.  The first night he slept it it, we watched him crawl in and out, play in his room, flip the light switch on and off and crawl under the bed over and over again.

Emma Claire even spend a couple of nights in Arnold's bed with him.  They giggled, played (in and out of the bed), cuddled and eventually fell sound asleep.