Environmental Center

So far this week we have been seen Monday at Ocean County Park swimming. Tuesday we met up with Aunt Kathy and cousin Klaire at the Manasquan Reservoir Environmental Center after they finished biking the whole 5 miles around the lake. It was my fisrt time in the environmental center. I've been to every other part of the park before. They had puzzles and stuffed animals for the young ones. It was very nice. They have a few tanks with fish and turtles inside. They also had a wall of tanks with different frogs, turtles and snakes. I wish I brought my camera. Michael just pulled up a stool right in front of the water snake. Every time the snake came to the front of the tank he would scream and laugh. It was very cute.

Well, who knows where we will be the rest of the week.....

My Goofy Girl

Here are some fun pictures of Cole playing with her Mr/Mrs Potato.

I was laughing so hard I couldn't get a great picture of her.

We've been busy working on the house so I haven't had much to blog about. Today we took another trip to Ocean County Park to go swimming. It was nice and quiet.

(35 days without a stove) Hint, Hint-Honey

Funny things they say

Last night, Cole was standing at her bedroom window enthralled with clamoring the outside.
"What are doing Punkin? Are you watching Daddy build us a house?"
"No build house Mommy" she whispered "Daddy build castle!"


I would love to go back a make a list of the adorable things these guys say. Just so I can look back at it on days like today when I need a little smile.

Snuggling with the new Harry Potter book

I forgot to add this photo of Cole yesterday. She piled all of Daddies pillows into a corner and grabbed Daddies Harry Potter book and pretended to read it.

Helping Daddy

The kids just love getting rides on the tracker. Moe, Cole and I helped (If you can call what we do help) Ed back fill down the side of the house. What we really did was get nice and dirty. That in itself is so tiring. Here they are taking a little break.

Let me tell you- I am so excited about this dirt.(simple things like this make me happy) Even though the picture is dark, you can tell how gorgeous that stuff is. We had this clay crap before that was like a rock. I couldn't plant anything in it. We haven't had very good luck getting decent soil delivered either. Twice they delivered the same stuff that we-I mean Ed, spent two years hauling out of there. We got this dirt from a friends house. Good news is its free. Bad news it takes time to get it here. Time, Ed is short on.

After the house is sided in a clay color (ha ha) I'm picturing- green grass, a beautiful lilac bush, some pink climbing roses, and maybe some ornamental grass in there. Oh, the colors! I'm getting so excited. It's like planning the colors for a painting. My little bug lover was busy picking up any insect she could find. She found this dead butterfly. Look at that sad cookie covered face. I was trying to convince my little explorer to come inside.

"Let's go inside, Mommy's getting eaten by mosquitoes."

"No eat ski-toes, Mommy" she exclaimed horrified.

"Mommy's not eating the mosquitoes Honey. They are eating me." I said.

"NO EAT ski-toes, Mommmmeeee! FROGGGGEEEEE EATS ski-toes!"

hehe- God I love her!