Ava and Harper singing and dancing around

On Friday morning, they broke into this song "me dance all myself" and amazingly, didn't stop when they noticed me filming.

A day with Parker

 Papa picked up Parker after his morning football practice and after he got cleaned up they rode the scooter into town.  I was in town garage sale-ing so we met at the Masthead for lunch, where Parker had the "best mushroom burger ever".  Afterwards they went over to the Unique Tin car show at the fairgrounds.  Parker said he saw several "sweet rides" there, and Papa took a picture of him in front of an Army jeep they both liked.

Parker got to ride the scooter around a little

They stopped at a few garage sales on the way home and also went to the junk store in Castle Rock.  It is Parker's newest favorite place, he begged me to take him back down there later in the afternoon so he could look around again, he ended up buying an old Army officer's pin for $4.  After that we rented the newer Longest Yard movie after not being able to find the original one.  It was pretty good.  Then after he and Papa did some mowing we read some of Artemis Fowl, the book the kid's have to read over the summer, and made an ice cream cone run, which included questions from Parker such as "what is your favorite gas station, Grandma?"  He's a fun kid.

Zoo trip

Ava and Harper got a kick out of the sea otters.

 Ava and Harper spent the night and woke up this morning all rested and happy, so we decided it was a perfect day to take them and Rielee to the zoo. 

 They really liked the elephants, and were very impressed by their poop, too!  They also liked the sea lion, polar bear and the big ocean fish, the giraffes, mountain goat, tigers and black bear. 

 Ava and Harper liked the zoo train ride best of all.  No carseats, they could climb back and forth over the seat to sit with Papa or I, they were thrilled by it.  When the train went by people, they both waved little expert parade waves to them. There was a set of identical 2 year old twin girls sitting behind us,  Ava and Harper noticed them and said "hi twins" and waved to them.  Rielee was kind of bored by the train ride, she thought she would see all the animals but there were only a few glimpses of them. 

"I see my sister!"

Our last stop was the gift shop where Harper bought a light up bubble gun for her souvenir, Rielee bought a little parrot and Ava got a kitty, and they got zoo cups, too.  It was a very fun day.

Dress up and painting

 The kids had one last play session today before Liann and Lindsey left.  Rielee and Lindsey were toasting "to  pb & jelly sandwiches", which Lindsey said were her favorite.  I had picked up the twins in Vancouver this morning after they had their 3 year check-up this morning.  They are fine and right on track, and they got their flu shots.

 They got to play over at Rielee's for awhile this afternoon.  They came back dressed up in princess clothes, Ava wore slippers back, too.  They were invited to eat dinner there but said they didn't like chicken, or rice, and even turned down a bowl of Frosted Cheerios until Des told them it was candy cereal and then they changed their minds and Harper ate 2 bowls full.

They wanted to paint birdhouses tonight, and of course Ava asked for pink paint and Harper green.  By the time they were done, they had added several other colors and Ava's was mostly green and Harper's a charcoal with spots of pink.  Rielee's was blue with a little white.  All were very proud of their work.

 Scott, Liann and Lindsey came back today.  Right away, the girls went swimming with Rielee, and didn't get out until dinner time.  Liann and Lindsey showed me their synchonized swimming routine and Liann jokingly told me that she was asked to be on the Olympic team, but she wasn't old enough!  Too funny, the routine was cut short because of that darned water up the nose problem.

Lindsey turned 7 today so we had a little party for her after dinner, then the girls were back outside again until dark..  Lindsey got a speaker for I-Pods or Pads for her birthday, so they used it with Rielee's Nano and were listening to music while they played volleyball.   They will leave tomorrow, headed back to San Diego and then back home to Japan next month.  We will miss them, so will Rielee, she loved having the girls around, especially Lindsey since they are the same age.

Liann, Lindsey, Rielee

 Scott, Jill, Liann, Lindsey and Ashli came to visit us Friday night.  Rielee and Parker were staying with us also and Rielee and the girls wasted no time this morning, playing every game in the house, playing outside and riding scooters all day.  Scott, Liann and Lindsey will be back next week to visit again.  The girls have grown so much, Ashli is 16, Liann is 11 and Lindsey will be 7 on Monday.

Proud Grandpa with Ashli, Lindsey and Liann

Luke came up to visit today.  Parker enjoyed his company a lot, they shot some hoops after breakfast, then we all went to the pool.  The girls had fun showing Luke how they can float by themselves.  Cathy and Bob brought Jillian and Bridget up to swim, too.  Jillian swam around with her floaties on and Bridget came in with me a little bit but was kind of apprehensive, probably because of the boys in the pool, especially Uncle.