Our Little Math Nerd

Olive has a slight obsession with numbers and counting. Luckily this comes naturally to her, because Stephen and I are both "word" people, not "number" people. I give credit to Team Umi Zoomi for developing her love of numbers and all things math. She counts all the time and loves to point out numbers on signs at the store, on a walk, etc. Her new favorite toy goes right along with the number obsession...

Mommy's giant pink calculator!
She will play for hours (well, minutes) with this thing! I asked her to say cheese and this is what I got. ??????

The calculator usually ends up sitting with her books at night because instead of reading at bedtime now she likes to play numbers.

That way when she wakes up in the morning, she knows just where to find it. This morning, she sat down with her milk, looked over and said "Good morning numbers!"

She likes to play a game with Daddy where she points to him and says "where da ___?" It took him a few times to realize that she wasn't asking him where the numbers were, she was wanting him to ask her where they were. Maybe numbers will help her get a college scholarship someday, I don't see basketball in her future! At least it will impress her kindergarten teacher! :)

Today is Brought To You By The Letter "S"

Today we had a fun filled Summer day with our Special friends the Beverages! We spent the morning on a mini road trip to find the best Splash pad and enjoyed splashing around and playing. The girls weren't really all that into the water pouring down on their heads, but more into running around in the water screaming! Grady was pretty unimpressed with the splash pad, but humored us anyways and would smile from time to time. After the splash pad, D had the greatest idea...let's get a tasty treat...a Sno cone! The Sno cone stand only has one picnic table and it wasn't shaded, but never fear, we had our own umbrella in the car! (We won't mention that at one point, because of the wind, the umbrella was ripped from the table and FLEW over the sno cone stand causing panic and for D to go running with Grady in her arms toward the road to prevent any accidents. All ended well and the umbrella ended up safe on the table) D, Grady and Molly waiting in line!

Then Grady came and joined us at the table to help hold down the umbrella. Seriously, could he be any sweeter? Forget the sno cone, I could gobble him up with a spoon!

Molly was excited about her chocolate sno cone, but wasn't sure what to think of the sour straw!

Digging in!

This was Olive's very first sno cone experience and the sno cone girl suggested a "Princess" flavor for the first timer!

At first, she couldn't quite figure out the proper scooping technique.

and it ended up splashing her in the eyes. Which she thought was hysterical!!

Once she figured it out, she LOVED it. Bless her heart, it was melting as fast as she could scoop. I think more ended up down the front of her than in her mouth, but she didn't seem to mind.

Me and my Sweet Girl!

(Please excuse the splash pad, wind blown hair)

I love this picture! Molly is looking at her like "Why are you dripping that everywhere?!"

YUM!

We had a Sweet, Sticky, Sunny, Super, Splashing Day! Thanks friends!

Sunday Morning Surprise!!

When I was growing up, our family went to Daylight Donuts every Sunday on the way to church. Stephen walked in yesterday morning with a special surprise!
Olive has only had 2 donuts in her life (I know, we are terrible parents who deprive her) and neither one of them was at home. So this was her first donut at home!

She liked the donut, but wasn't sure what to think about her hands getting so sticky!

Being the smart girl that she is, she decided to try a different way to avoid sticky hands. I like her thinking!

"Okay, maybe if I try little tiny bites"

"Nope! Still sticky!"

"Okay, mind over matter. I can do this!"

"I think I can, I think I can..."

"GROSS!"

Even with spending most of the time worried about her sticky hands, she still seemed to enjoy her donut!

It was lip smacking good!

Thank you Daddy for the yummy, but sticky, Sunday morning surprise!

TallGrass Also Has A New Supervisor

Yesterday, Stephen and his guys were mowing our yard. Olive heard the lawn mowers the minute they started and went running to the window to watch "Daddy work". She stood up in the chair to watch them in the backyard. She kept saying "Good job Marcos!"

She watched intently the whole time they were in the backyard. When they moved to the front yard, she moved to the dining room to watch.

And then to the front windows.

She was yelling "Hi Marcos! Good job!"

She was so excited when I pulled up the blinds so he could see her!

I think Stephen should hire her as a new supervisor, she had a close eye on them the whole time they were working. This morning when I went to open the blinds, she said "I see Marcos and Suess" (also known as Jesus).

TallGrass Has A New Designer!

The other night, Stephen was working on a big proposal at the kitchen table and Olive decided she needed to do some work too! She went in and got a piece of paper and her crayons and carried them into the table. It was so funny watching her "work".

How sweet are these little toes?!

Discussing ideas (or colors) with the Boss Man.

I am sure some pretty creative ideas came out of this little work session at the table!

Meet Roger, the Swimming Giraffe

Last year, we didn't have the best of luck with the backyard swimming pool and poor Olive was traumatized by the experience...This year, we took a little bit smarter approach. We set the pool up yesterday and let her look at it and walk around it and then gave it a try today. Here they are checking it out.


At first she wasn't exactly thrilled and insisted on being held. Then her Daddy had the idea to lure her with her new favorite item, golf balls!

It didn't take her long to warm up and start having a fun time!

Every time she would lean down close to the water, she would stick out her tongue.

The pool has a little slide which she went down once and liked but didn't want to try again. Instead, she liked rolling the golf balls down the slide.

Bubbles in the pool was another win by Daddy!

She looked over at the giraffe on the pool and said "Hi Roger", so apparently the giraffe's name is Roger. She like playing with his nose. Maybe someday soon we will let her know that his nose is actually a sprinkler.

Giving Roger kisses.

We love Roger and the swimming pool! Here is to many more afternoons in the pool!