Ah, Summer

This summer has been busy, stressful, and wonderful.

As I said in my previous post, our summer began in the hospital for a planned surgery for my husband.  He is now a very healthy daddy, after his ileocecectomy (a surgery where a portion of his bowel was removed).  He has Crohns disease and after many, many years of discomfort, he finally has relief.  He feels very good now (6 weeks later).  We are thankful indeed.

He and munchkin found ways to have fun while he was healing.

She took good care of her Daddy.  She gave him his “medicine” (and he gave her some too).  She held his hand and walked him around the house.  She told him to sit down.  And she checked to make sure he was feeling OK about every five minutes.  It was very sweet and cute.  He is finally able to pick her up again and we are so happy!

Our fathers and friends helped build a shed for us while Husband was out of commission.  It was very kind.  This is the only picture I have.  I blame it on my long days at the hospital.  It was still cold and wet many of the days in May.  We had to use every non-rainy moment we could.

In spite of all that, we’ve had so much fun this summer!  We went for a tea party at a friend’s house, where I realized I had dressed my daughter like Minnie Mouse.  It was a perfect accident.

The munchkin started using the ergo to carry her babies around.

She made beds for the kitties.  They didn’t enjoy it so much.

She built her FIRST REAL LEGO (well, Duplo) CREATION.  It was a car.  With a “driving wheel”.  It was fantastic.  I am proud.

We had fun with many friends, actually.  This is our dear friend Doreen.  She loves the munchkin and the munchkin loves her.

It finally got warm (not hot until after July 4th).  I’ve been waiting for some warm weather so Munchkin could finger-paint outside where we can hose things off.  I also have been waiting for the warm weather to start potty training in earnest.  I thought I could use the pool as incentive.  Unfortunately I am having no success with that.  “F” for me.

We have modeled, well she has…well… I guess you could call that modeling, if you wanted to stretch the truth.

We became pirates.

We looked for friends.

We slept hard and wore sweats a lot because it was still chilly up until about a week ago.

We have been enjoying our summer!

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