good lord, is it monday already? these past few days truly felt like vacation. with the cool weather and so much to get out and see, we were barely at home. but maybe that has more to do with the fact that our television internally exploded during the lightning storm last week.
summer in full swing with tita lynn at foster beach.

silas's first veggie dog! with lynn's encouragement he took on the whole thing.

friday morning breakfast with georgia. pretend coffee helps them get in gear for those cartwheels at toddler gymnastics.

walking the fox river boardwalk with grandma and grandpa.

cicada on a stick.

hiding behind grandpa might stave off the ride home for a few more moments.

after nap/before party ankle soak with grandma.

swimming like polar bears.

my parents' neighbors, peter, sandra and helena, are moving back to switzerland come fall. so we crashed their backyard farewell bbq on saturday evening. helena had tons of kids over & silas was fascinated by all of them, but he was (deliriously) happiest while jumping on the trampoline.

helena commandeers the de-meating of the pig. the kid on the left was really, really into the pig head. i think he ate the tongue, but my swiss-german is not so great.

silas . me . peter

sandra and just two members of her fan club.

he even thought it was fantastic when his face would bounce off the trampoline. and we just want him to be happy.

