Our first adventure would be the visit from Sarah and Carson. After some weather delays, (why does that always happen to my sisters) Sarah arrived. During her stay, we did some shopping (I got a 50% off at Gymboree!), had the kids pictures taken, and we celebrated Carson's first birthday. Happy Birthday Carson! Since he was too young to object, we celebrated most of Lucy's then too. We decorated, wrapped presents, and baked a few cakes. I think the balloons were a bigger hit than the gifts, but we had fun.
There was also a lot of rain here in Wisconsin during the month of June. Half of the state has been declared a disaster, and there was some significant flooding in Oshkosh (15 min south) and Fon du Lac (40 min south), not to mention the Fox River being above flood stage and last I heard they were still waiting for it to crest. Maybe it finally has, but you never know. Along with these rains, we have had some damaging winds. One of those hit close to home...literally! Sarah, Carson, and I were in the kitchen getting dinner ready. Lucy was in the dining room, and Brad was somewhere in between. We were watching the news because there was a possibility of a tornado and all of a sudden we hear a crash. Sarah and I look out the window to see if lightning struck, and what we see is part of a tree that fell across our driveway (blocking it). We were really lucky since we were all on that side of the house and the tree branch mostly missed the house (no damage done there). Also, our car had been parked in the driveway and maybe 40 minutes earlier Brad moved it into the garage saving it from the tree. So the branch was about 48' long and at the base 1'6" in diameter at the base and the section in our driveway was about 12" in diameter. So, I called my wonderful visiting teacher Pam to arrange a ride for the next morning and asked her if she happened to know anyone with a chainsaw. She didn't, but not long later, her son and husband drove up with an ax and a saw and went to work. Sarah and I tried to get them to come inside because of the lightning but that didn't work. We are very grateful to them for their help. On a side note we had some water leaking in the basement as well. And I thought I loved the rain. ;)
Lucy turned 2 on June 19th. Happy Birthday Lucy! We took her to the doctor and she was so brave. She had to get one shot and she didn't cry. She weighed in at 30 lbs (86%), 35.25" tall (85%) and 48.4 cm for her head (74%). She opened her big present from her parents on her birthday. The Little People House. She loves it.
The last adventure would have been last Saturday. We got up and moving early in the morning and met our friends Adam, Kahleen, and Lena Mangum at I Hop for breakfast. Then we drove out to Cuff Farms and picked strawberries. We had so much fun eating and picking. Lucy was a mess! She was eating the strawberries, the stems, green ones, picked ones, ones from the Mangum's box (she was our little strawberry poacher). She was all over the place. In the end we came home with almost more strawberries than we could handle, which made for a lot of jam. Yummy!
Lucy's new accomplishment is that she counted to 11 by herself today. She's getting so big. She also recognizes a lot of letters, and is starting to sing along with Cinderella (still her favorite). Her favorite book this week is There's a Wocket in my Pocket. Favorite sayings/words: Oh no!, rasins?, go away, luv you, you ok?, beep beep, I get you, I stuck, movie?, balloon, and oh boy. She is jabbering up a storm and is loving her stuffed dog Wiffer, he goes with her everywhere (in the house). She likes to play peek a boo with him and her doll house.
