A Lot of Stuff

We’ve been busy, busy, busy the past two weeks.  We went to Wisconsin Dells over the weekend.  We spent the first day swimming in the hotel pool.  There was a kiddie pool with a frog water slide, some hanging buckets that slowly filled up with water and then dumped out and some other fun water things.  Sawyer and Andi had a good time playing/splashing in the water.

On the second day, we went to the International Crane Foundation.  This was my idea and it turned out to be not a very good one.  It was kind of boring.  They only had cranes to look at and all they do is stand around.  There were some pretty flowers, though. 

After the crane foundation, we went on an upper Dells boat tour.  We did this tour a few years ago and nothing has really changed.  It is still nice to see the scenery and enjoy the boat ride.  The Wisconsin River and its surrounding landscape is very pretty.

On Sunday (our last day in the Dells), we went to Noah’s Ark.  It was my first time there.  It was a nice day but not hot so the water felt pretty cold.  Sawyer was shivering while playing in the kiddie areas.  Even Peter commented about how cold the water was in the kiddie areas. 

The guys convinced me to go on a water slide.  I went on a water slide years ago when I was 17 or 18 and got whip lash really bad.  I’ve never gone on on a water slide since for fear that I would get hurt again.  The water slide that the guys talked me into going on was the Black Anaconda.  It was fun-ish. . . it would have been better if so much water didn’t splash/spray you in the face.  I did go on a few baby water slides with Sawyer and I thought they were quite pleasant.

On Monday, we celebrated Peter’s 30thbirthday.  We went out to dinner (with Peter’s parents) to Fudrucker’s in Appleton.  It is a ‘make-your-own’ burger place.  It was good and we had a nice time.

Cailey is doing very well.  She is almost four months old (on July 3rd).  She has perfected rolling over from her tummy to her back.  She is now starting to scootch.  She sort of reaches out with her arms and then pushes herself forward with her knees and tip toes.  Most of the time she sleeps through the night.  Occasionally, she will wake up hungry but only once or twice per week.  Cailey loves to talk (typical girl) and coos all the time.  She has such a sweet smile and her face lights up whenever she sees someone.  I love walking into the room, catching her eye and seeing her big grin.

Sawyer is also doing well.  He seems more like a little boy and less like a baby.  He now recognizes over half of the alphabet.  This fall, I think we will start trying to write the characters.  We also have to start working on numbers.  I’ve kind of been working so much with the alphabet that numbers have been put on hold.  I think he will be smart like his father.

A cute story . . . when we were at the hotel this past weekend, Sawyer kept asking to go by the alligator.  Sometimes he would ask to go by the crocodile.  I wasn’t sure what he was talking about so I kept asking him if he meant the frog slide in the pool or the big fish hanging on the wall of the lobby.  I asked Sawyer to show me and he brought me down by the elevators and I told him that there weren’t any alligators down there.  I finally figured out that when we said, ‘elevator’ he heard, ‘alligator.’  Being two, he sometimes replaced alligator with crocodile.  For fun, we rode the ‘alligator’ a few extra times and very rarely took the stairs.

My mom, Sawyer and I went strawberry picking on Monday morning.  I picked way too many strawberries.  I froze some whole, made strawberry topping for freezing and about three years worth of strawberry jam.  If anyone wants some jam, let me know

Well, enough rambling . . . I have to get a good night’s sleep because we are going to Bay Beach tomorrow.  It should be a fun day.