"Wichita"

Chris was in a wedding in Wichita yesterday, and Natalie fell in love with the church's huge nursery filled with toys. We don't have any pictures of the actual wedding because this is where we spent most of our day. As we were leaving Natalie kept asking to go back to Wichita. I'm fairly certain that she now thinks Wichita is the name of the toy dreamland.

Swimming

Here it is August 26th, and Max and Natalie just went swimming for the first time this summer. Poor kids. We never made it to the city pool because I couldn't figure out how I'd keep close tabs on both of them at the same time. Luckily, we have good friends who happen to live right across the street from their neighborhood pool. They invited us over for supper and swimming this evening, and we all had a blast!

Tower Building Instructions

He's learning from the best.

"Nap Time"

This is how Natalie spent her "nap time" today. I couldn't help but smile... and take pictures.

Splashing and Art in the Park

We took Natalie to play on the splash pad at King Park this morning. She was a little hesitant at first but very quickly warmed up to the idea of running through the sprinklers.

Max watched from his perch in the shade and made plans to spray his sister when he can run around on the splash pad next summer.

As we were walking up to the park, we noticed a lot of cars and remembered that this was the morning for Art in the Park. We didn't know much about Art in the Park and hadn't originally planned to go, but since we were already there we checked it out after Natalie was done at the splash pad.

They had a lot of arts and crafts booths for older kids, but Natalie enjoyed the side walk painting and the snow cone stand. I was a little disappointed that we didn't make it to the cupcake decorating stand before it closed. (I was more disappointed about missing the cupcake than I was about missing the decorating.)

The festival was sponsored by a local church, so all of the activities were free. They had a great turn out, so hopefully they'll do it again next year when Natalie and Max will be able to do a little more.

Friday at the Park

Drum Roll Please

Max had his four-month appointment today, and, as expected, he is off the size charts! He weighs 22.9 pounds (>97th percentile), and he is 27 inches long (95th percentile).

I'm sure I've said this before, but I love going to the doctor with a big baby. All of the nurses and doctors lay on the praise which is a nice change of pace from the "He's huge!" comments. He is big and healthy and perfect.

Yesterday Natalie was picking up her dolls off of the floor while saying in her best pretending-to-strain voice, "Getting so big!" Maybe she's heard me say that a time or two.