D inherits Sophie the Giraffe

Everything is a hat

After supper we had some ice juice and then played on the table together. 

D exersaucing

2 in swing

who needs shirts?

who needs pants?

Tim's lap.

First, Tim was pooped on. 

The poop came out the leg of the diaper, so none of it actually got on Baby D. Which is why later he is wearing the same outfit...

when he spits up all over both of them.

Tim had previously changed. Because of the poop. 

Kitchen sink bath

Swinging bridge

Heinz History Museum with Friends

We went to the Heinz History Center with some random moms from a facebook group called Pittsburgh Moms Club.  It was very much out of my comfort zone, but I have a membership that is expiring and there are always moms looking for fun places to go, so I thought, why the heck not. 

Here are the 3 big kids on an old Kennywood Racer Car. Attison immediately tried to crawl over the seat backwards, the girl tried to sit on the floor of the front seat and the other boy was 3 so he was kind of able to follow directions, he sat there and smiled for the longest amount of time. 

Here is how baby D enjoyed most of the museum.

Here is A playing on the train table that is designed like The Point, when it used to be a rail yard. 

Here we are playing in a "log cabin."

The current exhibit at the museum is Pittsburgh’s Lost Steamboat: Treasures of the Arabia.The exhibit is about a Steamboat that sunk in the Missouri River right before the river changed course. So the boat was buried in the mud.  100 years later they excavated it and almost everything was perfectly preserved in the mud, because it wasn't exposed to Oxygen.  There were no human casualties when the Arabia sunk, but 1 mule drowned because he was tied to a pole. Incidentally, there were other animals on board that did survive. 

For whatever reason, part of the exhibit is this drowning mule that they would like you to sit on and share your picture on social media, tagging the museum. Also, there is a 100# weight limit, so really, they want your kids to sit on the drowning mule and get their pictures taken. 

Attison had the most appropriate response to the instruction of sitting on a dying animal, which we have here for your viewing pleasure. 

Baby D goes to work

Porch Party

Baby D isn't quite ready to play on the porch yet, so he just hangs out in the stroller.

A plays with water in all of his buckets. 

D gets hot, so we make him a mini a/c unit.

An "ARF!" (dog) walked by, he had to watch it until it was out of sight. 

Showing off for Da

This guy is kind of crazy.

Resting and jam

This week we all got sick in one way or another and on one day and all of the others.

Baby D never really got sick. But he is always kind of congested. A was too at that age.

Here he shows us how he feels about everyone else being sick.

   

Of course I went and picked 35# of strawberries and made jam.  It's only strawberry season once a year and now that I have the secret family recipe I stock my own freezer! 

(Although truth be told, I still experiment and stray from the instructions...it has not yet worked in my favor.)