It's Blueberry Time

We were able to go to Blueberry Patch up river and pick blueberries. Each of the girls took a friend to come and help pick.

Baby Huck had some interesting strategies for picking.

He began with eating as many as he possibly could.

Then he went to stealing from people's buckets.

Then he tried hitting the bush until they fell method.

In the end the kids picked a whopping 25 pounds.

We then took the kids to a local farm to get some more produce.

Have you ever handed your camera over to your kids to see what pictures they take. The following made the cut from their photo shoot.

Double Digits

10 years ago today our baby girl was born. She is such an energetic, creative and happy girl. I can't believe time has flown by so quickly. As I blogged about earlier we are currently living in the same duplex we lived in when Midge was first born. At random times I will have a flashback to her being in the bassinet or bathing her for the first time in our kitchen sink. It has a weird way of making the past decade seem so close and so far away at the same time. For Midge's birthday we were able to celebrate with family and had a barbeque. Midge picked the menu of hamburgers.

Leo got to help me make the cake this time around.

His favorite part was using the edible spray paint.

The whole family!

Washington Park

A new splash park has opened up in town. They are taking out all of the old wading pools and converting them to splash parks. I convinced a fun family to make the trip with us to go and play. We took a lunch and had a lot of fun. I decided to change some of these pictures to black and white because it makes you focus on the action taking place in the pictures.

There are sprinklers located all over the park and the water periodically will pop out. It was entertaining for the older and younger kids.

During lunch we had a blueberry throwing contest.

This photo shows it bouncing off Leo's head.

Each of the sprinklers is painted with bright art work.

Towards the end the kids wanted to go and dig in the sand.

The nice part is that they could then wash off easily before we left to come home.

This kid needs a break

When we came back from our trip to Sunriver Leo started complaining about his skin itching him. I just thought the climate had been dry and he needed some lotion. When we got home he had huge welts all over his body and had broken out in hives. We couldn't think of what he had eaten or been exposed to that would have caused this reaction. We gave him a benadryl and gave him an oatmeal bath. When the hives started to go down we thought we were out of the clear. I was a little surprised when 4 hours later they started to come back just as bad. Again I gave him a benadryl and again they seemed to react to the medication. Over the course of the next 24 hours the hives returned over and over again. By the next day the hives weren't even reacting to the benadryl medication. Leo was miserable and because there were no appointments at the after hours clinic I had to take him into urgent care where we proceeded to wait for 2 1/2 hours! It was crazy. Leo kept asking me how much longer is this going to take.

Finally they got us in and ended up giving him a shot of prednisolone. They also gave him a prescription for further steroids. He still had to deal with the hives for several days, but they are getting better. The poor kid asked me why he keeps having to deal with these strange illnesses. He feels like he should be given a few extra weeks for summer vacation!

Turning 4

Little Miss turned 4 this past Sunday.

My parents and brother were able to come down and celebrate with us. Because of some other things happening that I will blog about later I didn't get a single picture of them. They gave Little Miss a new scooter, which she loves because she can be like her older brother and sister.

The best thing ever is that midge made her cake. I helped her a little, but for the most part she decorated it herself. On the top she put a graham cracker cut out of flounder and a shark.

Little Miss was so excited. Midge wanted it to be a surprise for her, but the night before when we were making it Little Miss kept sneaking out in order to watch Midge making it.

A few days after her birthday we took Little Miss to the a shop that is a

little girl's absolute dream called Bella Couture.

Little Miss wanted a tiara like her sisters.

We ended up taking along one of our neighbors that the kids have known since he was born.

He has always been sweet with Little Miss and she adores him back.

Here he is helping her try on shoes.

I tried to get her brother Leo to give her a kiss too. His reaction, "Are you kidding me! I'm not kissing her." Ah brotherly love. We decided to let her have a boa too.

Around about this time Leo stated: "Wow there is a lot of pink in this store!"