Raspberry Pickin'

Yesterday I decided to head in to visit my mom and pick raspberries from her backyard patch. AJ and I got stuck in traffic from some construction, and I swore we would take the train next time! My mom (Omi to the grandkids) was already watching Kyra for my sister, so AJ and Kyra played with Omi while I made my first round through the patch. There were a lot of berries and they are so sweet! Kyra likes to try to pick and eat any berry she sees, even if it is still white. It's so hard to teach the concept of ripening to a 2 yr old!








I picked Karly up from Vacation Bible School, and when we got back to Omi's, Kim was there with Grayson. He's such a sweet, cuddly baby! Check out this pick of him sleeping happily on Kim's shoulder. I think on this day he was 3 weeks old! I can hardly remember AJ being so small. Amazing how fast they grow, isn't it? I love that AJ has 3 cousins to see and grow up with. It's so nice that they are so close in age and can play together for years to come. Karly is sometimes bored by them, but in general, she likes to help and loves to make AJ laugh. I'm sure both sisters will amuse Grayson in the months to come!!









So, while Grayson slept on the porch in his carseat, the rest of the kids took a dip in the kiddie pool. Our family are a bunch of fishes, and these babe's love the water! AJ has started to put his face in the water and blow bubbles, and on this visit he started to go down the little slide. The bubbles are good, but the slide scares me. He is still not that good at moving his legs underneath his body to sit down at the top to slide down, so I ran over nervously many times. He never actually fell though, and maybe he was getting better by the end of the swimming session...AJ is also picking up so many new words. This day I realized that he knows who Elmo is and can say his name, and when we came home he learned how to say "arm" while grabbing one or the other. He can now say over 40 words and has about 10 signs as well. What a little communicator! Can't believe "truck" and "pool" have not made it on to the list yet! It's only a matter of time...