Camping 2013

Much to mommy's dismay, the time came once again for our annual camping trip with our daycare friends.  Mommy tried to use every excuse to get out of it (Noah broke his arm and shouldn't be near sand with his cast, it's too hot, Elliot doesn't sleep well in a tent), but we ended up going anyway.  And we are glad we did, because we have so much fun with our friends when we go camping each year.  It was one of the hottest weekends of the year (100 degrees during the day, cooled down to high 80's at night), but we made the best of it and had fun anyway.  On the last day, however, Elliot was acting weird after he got up, he spiked a high fever, and just clung to mommy.  Mommy and daddy were worried about him, so we packed up quickly and headed home.  Turned out he had some sort of flu bug and was better in a few days.  

Going bug catching

Elliot and Hannah..tricky little devils 

Snack time

Elliot wasn't happy about sharing his chair

Noah and Brady playing in the sand (mommy freaking
the entire time about getting sand in the cast)

Elliot ready to swim

Always a happy boy 

Another snack break

Noah and Brady being silly

Seriously, all he did was snack all weekend

Bubble time (Shelli brought colored bubbles,
which got over everyone's clothes, luckily it washed easily)

The only way to truly enjoy a campfire....while playing iPad

 Elliot, Bennett and Hannah enjoying breakfast

The crew

First Broken Bone

Well, it only took 4 years, 2 months and 12 days, and we have our first broken bone! (But who's counting).  Noah was playing on the neighbor's play set one night when he jumped off the slide and fell on his hand.  He complained that it hurt, but like any good parent would do, we told him he was 'fine.'  And he was (or so we thought), so he proceeded to play catch with daddy,  and go over to a friend's house to jump on the trampoline before going to bed.  When he woke up, however, it was a different story.   His arm was swollen, and that's when we knew we had a problem.  A tiny little buckle fracture in his arm, so the pediatrician wrapped it in a temporary splint before we could see the orthopedic doctor that casted it.  6 weeks later,  and his arm is just like new!

What a trooper with his temporary splint

Check it out!

Or course he picked a red cast

All healed up!

Minnesota Zoo

Well, it's time again to get our blog up to date.  We are SUPER behind this time, so we will try to catch everyone up quickly with all of the fun stuff that has been going on over the past few months.  Summer went too fast, but we kept busy and had something to do almost every weekend.  One weekend (we don't remember when anymore since it was so long ago, ha!) we went to the Minnesota Zoo.  This was Elliot's first time going, and he loved it!  Both boys had a great time, despite the hot weather (high 90's).  We took a lot of water and ice cream breaks, and ended the day at the zoo's splash pad to cool off.  Here are a few pictures from our day:

Checking out the otters

Checking out the otters 

Elliot almost fell over when the otter came this close :) 

Love Elliot's expression of the bear

Riding the tractor to the 'farm' 

Riding the tractor to the 'farm', boys
are sick of pictures at this point

Elliot loved feeding the goats, while Noah
and I watched safely from outside the fence

Checking out the baby pigs

Hot boys

Elliot wasn't scared of anything...

Silly boys

The dinosaurs exhibit was Noah's favorite 

Ice Cream Break

Fun at the splash pad

Passed out before we left the parking lot
(don't worry, the straps were fixed before taking off)

Tired