Rattatoullie

Today Madison (whom I babysit a few times each week while her mom Mallie works as a nurse) was reading Ratatoullie and she saw this page and told me she wanted "eggs". So I got out the frying pan and started to make one for her. She wanted the chair close by so she could help, and then she insisted we have two eggs. So I put the book on the recipe stand so she could see how it was to be done.

She insisted they were "Jackie's eggs" and tried to feed them to Jackson.

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Jackson's two front teeth are close to erruption, no more vampire baby!

Usually following dinner-time comes bath time.

Daddy gave Jackson a mohawk.

Too many cute smiles!

Cardiologist on Vacation

Stan, does this man look familiar?

Joshua Tree

Thursday night we took Jackson on his first camping trip, to Joshua Tree National Park. We arrived at our camp site about 10:30 pm, but that didn't deter Steven from having 3 cheesy brats and the rest of us from having S'mores. Yum.

Here we are trying to stay in the shade.

Jackson was a little tired due to his late night.

Here are Lindsay and Danny Poelman, our adventurous ward-dental friends. (Lindsay is an accountant, and Danny is a faithful basketballer w Steven).

Joshua Tree has world famous rock climbing, so I wanted to check it out. We did a short, easily accessable route. Definetly nothing world-class but it felt good to be climbing, never mind the 99 degrees (per the park ranger).

Here is Steven finger-jamming.

Overall, the camping was successful, it was a great way to celebrate the holiday. Thanks "Dansay" for coming with us!! You are great examples and lots of laughs.

On the way home we passed a big windmill farm, it was pretty spectacular.

The Best Fat Lip Ever

Another basketball injury:

This is Steven the next morning: