Camping

After several triesand being washed out, we finally got to go camping. Here is our wonderful tent. This was one of the first two big things Mark and I bought together, the other was a grill.
Here is Lydia fooling around in the tent. She loved it and we pretended we were "Toot and Puddle" the whole weekend.

She had to practice her yoga in nature.

This was when Mark and I were tearing down camp. That is my Zune that Lydia is watching. How awesome is it that you can download TV shows. This is how I survive taking walks and shopping. Lydia is now in the stage of "I do it" so she of course wants to walk not ride in a buggy or stroller.

But the cutest thing about it is she will ask for my Zune by saying "My smallest TV". She is very into tallest/smallest and biggest/smallest. She is pretty good and figuring it out too!

Here is what I love to do at camp..cook and eat.

Chillin at the campfire.

Sleeping in front of the campfire.

Watching the fire. No surprise, we had a hard time getting Lydia to go down. Her new way of telling us no is "I cannot like naps", "I cannot like potty's", "I cannot like strollers"..isn't that funny? I have no idea how she comes up with these things.

Why have I gained three pounds this summer so far?

Oh yeah, Lydia and I have been baking up a storm.

Brownies

How nice, she is sharing...don't worry hon, mama got the bowl and the scraper!

Doesn't it look like she is praying.."thanks you Jesus for my mama having a chocolate attack this morning"

She just cracks me up.

Are you still taking pictures of me?

Seriously mom, cut it out.

Dig in!

and this does not count the number of pans of Rice Krispie Treats I have made. I have been craving those like crazy. And the trips to the DQ...ahhh summer.

Kennywood

Back in the first weekend of June, our friends Wendy and Bryce let us tag along on Wendy's firm retreat. I was kinda worried about taking Lydia and not having enough to do at Kennywood. But with her tennis shoes on, she could get on many of the rides. One of the great things with her being tall. She even got to ride the log jammer with us.
This car thing was faster than I thought it would me. Lydia loved driving.

This was like the tilt a whirl.

This was a mini Phantom's Revenge. This was the only ride Lydia acted afraid to get on but she loved it once it started. And she would ride in the front with her Daddy, unlike her mama on the real one.

Here is Bryce and Mark riding a baby Demon Drop...again I did not want to ride the adult version of that. I finally agreed and then it broke while we were in line. Has anyone noticed that they can ride less now that they are older...or maybe it has to do with having a baby..I don't know.

Lydia loved this ride as well.

She thought she was big stuff riding these rides by herself.

She was acting so cool on this ride she would not look at us to get a picture.

This was the first ride we put her on. She played with the lever the whole time while she was waiting for him to load the other kids. Then when the ride was on, she wanted nothing to do with it. She had no problems leaving us for the ride workers to put her in the rides. She just ate it up.

Still ignoring us.

Seems like we have a picture of her and daddy on one of these every year!

Pickin on...

The next Jacksons

Lydia loves playing music and so does her daddy...they also will play guitar and the musicia (or harmonica) I only have video of that and blogger does not like my videos.

Here she is again playing her drum. She likes playing "like a band" meaning she wants you to put the drum around her neck so she can march around.

She is wearing her fireman's hat her Aunt Kelly swiped for her from the fireman's parade down in Buckhannon.

Please excuse her room. We need a toy box or something, her room is always out of control.

much much more to come...two camping trips, visits with friends, babysitting...we have been swamped. No wonder I am so tired during the school year, doing all this plus working..whew.

Swimming

Ok, here you are Jean...sorry for the lack of pictures! Here is out little mermaid swimming in Poppi and Nonni's pool. She loves swimming and I think she does a great job.

Mission: Get to Daddy

I see him

So Close

Made it!

Just chillin on the steps with Mama

Jumping in from the steps

Slammed

So I always do this to myself..the first two weeks of summer break and I try to pack in all this stuff. I do have pictures but they are still on the camera. But there were a few things I had to share that Lydia has been saying/doing...

In the car yesterday coming home from Sam's Club "look, look, it is an octagon! look mommy". Now I fully expected to see a stop sign and thinking she just knew that stop signs were octagons from Noggin, not knowing an octagon is a shape with 8 sides..but I will be damned when I looked to see what she was pointing to, it was a octagon window on what used to be Laundromat!

When we have been trying to get her to do something she does not want to do she will say "nah..tomorrow" on the same token this morning she blew me away when she said, "play at Nonni's house at the pool. play at Nonni's house yesterday" and that is exactly what we did yesterday..where does she learn how to use these words!

We are at 100% for going number 2 in the potty. Not so well on the number 1 side. Of course my daughter has to be backwards. She will do ok when she is bare bottomed but you put panties or God forbid a pull up on and she will pee in them and not care one bit!

Speaking of bathroom habits, yesterday I was having Lydia wash her hands after a potty attempted and she sang her alphabet. The whole thing. Mark has been teaching her to do that while washing to get her to scrub long enough.

This is such a fun age!