Children's Museum and a Little Baseball

We all went to the Children's Museum for the first time about a month ago. Laura had a great time -- so great that we bought a membership. We are looking forward to many more fun days while Laura learns at the museum. Laura and Shawn giving a report from the news desk. Apparently, the topic was ice cream sundaes:)
Laura acting as our bank teller...she needs to work a little on her money-giving technique!
Mommy and Laura giving a puppet show to daddy...Laura didn't want the curtain closed. She wanted to be the star of the show!

Our own little produce truck driver. She had a lot of fun sorting the vegetables in the truck before she decided to get in and try to drive.
A quick slide out of the corn silo makes for a lot of fun!
Can't ever resist playing in the water...And if you look really closely you'll see that she has a little heart painted on her face. Too cute!

This the is 3 of us at our local minor league baseball stadium. Our friend's brother played for the opposing team, so we all went to watch the game. Laura had a great time (surprisingly) and Shawn and I really enjoyed ourselves, too. We thought it would be fun to go again, but the temperatures have spiked to over 90 degrees for the last 3 weeks and the last thing we want to do is sit in the heat and watch a game. Oh well, maybe next spring!

4th of July Fun

So, I never got around to blogging about the Children's Museum like I planned, so you'll have to settle for some July 4th pictures and stories instead! We had a great long weekend, partly at the lake and the rest at home.

Our weekend started out with Laura's 4th of July program at school. We didn't really know what to expect -- we actually thought it was just a cookout. Much to our surprise, the kids stood on the stage of the sanctuary and sang a few songs. They all looked so cute in their matching shirts! We didn't think there was any way Laura would stay on stage once she saw us in the audience, but she did and even sang a few of the songs and did the hand motions. Here is a short video of their Fireworks song (sorry about the poor quality, we used our regular camera and the lighting was very poor in the church).

After a great lunch at the school, we hit the road and headed for the lake. Nana and Granddad surprised Laura with a new patriotic swimming suit that she loved and hardly took off the whole time we were there! She is really starting to like goofing off for the camera. I'm happy because now we get more pictures with a smiling Laura!

On Saturday evening, we took the boat over to watch some fireworks. The show was spectacular and Laura really enjoyed it. We weren't sure how she would do on the boat for so long waiting for the show to start, but we took her buckets, shovels, and a pile of rocks and she was as happy as a clam! I've never seen a kid have so much fun with rocks!
We came back home on Sunday morning so we could participate in our church's first baptism service held at the river. We had about 70 people come out to watch 4 members get baptized. I've never attended a river baptism, and I have to say it was one of the most moving experiences I've ever seen. After the service, we all stayed around to chat and eat lunch. Laura has a great time when we are with our new church -- there are 11 two-year olds at the church, so she has a large group of friends every time we are together!
And finally, Sunday night we went to the large fireworks display here in town with several other families. We forgot the camera this time around, but needless to say we all had a great time visiting, eating, listening to the band, and watching the fireworks.

Hope you all had a great holiday weekend! And I promise to catch up on all our other posts in the next week or so:)