Lenora celebrated her 6th birthday with a princess party in early July. Games included: pin the crown on the princess, a treasure hunt, and freeze dance. It was a great success.
Later in the month, Benjamin's vocabulary has exploded, along with an attachment to his stuffed pooh bear. This happened to be the thing that his father became attached to at that age, "like father, like son."
August was a great time for another trip to Forrest Lakes near Payson. From the moment we pulled up, Lenora was busy collecting wild flowers...
... and Benjamin was busy digging holes (big holes).
The next day we went to the Mogollon Rim Visitor Center and Woods Canyon Lake. A patio was built out over the side of the rim. It was a great view!
Check out this family pose. Benjamin couldn't keep his eyes out of the loaner binoculars.
Lenora was thrilled to try her hand at fishing for the first time, with her very own Barbie fishing pole. She earned the whole whopping $12 that it cost with odd jobs around the house. She was very excited.
At first it seemed like Benjamin was only interested in bugs, like this ladybug, and in throwing rocks into the lake.
Later on, Benjamin decided also to try the family fishing pole himself.
Amazing enough, some folks around us were catching fish, but the only thing we seemed to be able to catch were crawdads (Lenora caught 3).
Forrest Lakes is still our favorite place to go camping. Hopefully we'll find ourselves up there at least once more this summer.
2 comments:
that is so fun! i am jealous!!!
Your kids are getting so big! I will have to show Jackson pictures of Lenora- he still talks about her. I hope everything is well with you guys!
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