Summer Time Fun

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We have been enjoying the past few weeks of summer and dreading the fact that it is almost over....We have unfortunately come to an understanding that we may not make it back into the pool before the year is done...The high's this week do not indicate "pool" weather thus we are in mourining...But besides our favorite summer time activity--we have been busy doing other fun things....Such as Ashten's new favorite toy--Preston's old cozy coup...Not suprisingly...this is now one of Preston's New Old Favorites as well!

Preston, Ashten and I attending the boy's first baseball game (Daddy had to work) and it was overly hot that day...so we spent much of the time standing under the shaded building to enjoy the game rather than sit in the metal-nose bleed bleachers....guess you can't complain though when the tickets were free....Preston loved the game either way!

We have also been meeting up with our neighborhood group weekly....and visiting many backyards, playgrounds, pools...anything to wear the kiddo's out...It is so fun and exciting to know that my kids have so many great kids in the "hood" to grow up with!

Unfortunately we haven't gotten to spend as much time with the boy's cousins as we would have liked to this summer...They have been busy though and just had a new arrival of a boy cousin...The girl's are growing up so fast....and are so great to their younger cousins...I just love it when they do get together to play and hang out!

A summer is not a summer without plenty of "chunky cheese" visits...Usually these dates are reserved for Preston and Papa time...but since he hasn't been down here lately....Mommy had to take the plunge and let the boys indulge in some chunky fun on a rainy day!

And in probably the most exciting news of the summer....ASHTEN IS NOW WALKING! In the past couple weeks he has really taken off and considered this the most effective form of transportation (as opposed to crawling)...Not that he still doesn't crawl, but he is getting very good at using those two little legs...He just doesn't seem big enough to be a walker yet...but then I remind myself...Preston started this almost 3 months younger than Ashten has!

and thus the need to introduce the trusty old gates again.....For now Ashten has not minded them bc he really looks at them as a new toy to play with (ie pull on,shake, etc) soon I am sure he will figure out that they are blocking where he really wants to go!

and this is where that is....Although he is great at climbing up...he has yet to come back down...

We have also been gearing up for the Big Birthday Bash month of September....This is all that Preston has been talking about for weeks....so I really hope that Mommy is able to live up to the expectations of a soon to be 3 year old....yikes!