Rainbow

We don't have many strict rules in our house, but one of them is never wake a sleeping child. I've been breaking my own rule this summer though. Evie loves rainbows, so we just had to let her see this one. Apparently, rockets and rainbows are worth getting out of bed and any crankiness that may follow the next morning!

Fearless Andrew

When I signed up Evie for swim lessons I asked Andrew if he wanted to do them too, and he refused so I wasn't going to push the issue. He changed his tune when he saw his sister and the big kids going off the high dive. His class got to go to the regular diving board on the 7th day of class and most of them had to be dropped in, but Andrew took a flying leap off of it and asked his teacher if he could go off the big diving board next. They let him go on it the next night and he loved it. I couldn't believe he actually climbed up and jumped off twice. He looked so tiny jumping from up there. In 8 days he went from being afraid to put his face in the water to going off the high dive!

Andrew up on the high dive

Jumping down to his teacher

Swim Lessons-round 2

Five days ago Andrew was afraid to get in the water without his float and even more afraid of putting his face in the water. Five minutes into swim lessons he was happily doing both!

Swim Lessons

Goggle girl

Going off the high dive

Fearless!

Day 6 of swim lessons. We have been very impressed with the instructors @ UT

Toothless

This is the 5th tooth Evie has lost, but I think it is going to be the most missed. It is going to take some time for me to get used to seeing the gap in her grin and eating is going to be an adventure for a few weeks. Nonetheless, she was thrilled to lose a tooth and get a visit from the Tooth Fairy last night.

Abrams Falls

VBS 2010

I was ridiculously proud of myself for making these shirts for them.

Cowboy Andrew

Andrew milking a cow

Evie working on her craft

Downtown Disney

We have been in Orlando twice in the past two months without stepping foot into DisneyWorld, so I was dying to go to Downtown Disney on our last afternoon. We just had a few hours, so it wasn't worth buying one day passes to a park. Our kids were so excited when we drove under the Disney sign. They were so thrilled to be there!

We had lunch at the TRex cafe

Evie with her look-a-like in legos

Build your own pony at Once Upon a Toy

Build your own Mr.Potato Head...this is the cruisin' look (and yes, mommy forget to pick up a mouth)

Rocket Launch

We got to see a Delta IV rocket launch, which was really exciting for both kids and adults. Our first attempt at seeing it got scrubbed at T-7 seconds. After that there was a window that they couldn't launch because of the space shuttle Atlantis returning home. Thankfully, we got to see it on our last night.

Waking up in the middle of the night

Blast off

Kennedy Space Center