It was bound to happen.

I've heard it from every parent. "Has he pooped in the bath yet?" Well, folks, today was the day! It was utterly disgusting {hence no pictures}! I just had to blog about it so that I can remember the "first" of what I'm sure will be MANY instances. And very conveniently, Pete was out working. He was a lucky sucker. I'm sure he'll have the pleasure one of these days. So, how old were your kids when they pooped in the bath?

Learning by Osmosis and other sparse events

Go Dog! Go! He's learning with Dr. Seuss early. This was from today {Sunday}. Day two in the toddler bed. Also pictured with Jonas: cowboy hat, monkey, lotion, and a bear. As you can see, the bumper is detatched by his feet and as I am typing this, the other is ripped off too. So much for that idea. I might have to construct something a bit more hardy.

Toddler bed Day ONE. This was his first nap in his new bed. He's surrounded by many books and in his paws are some flash cards. As I was putting away all of the hard things around him, I had to practically pry those cards out of his hands. Also, notice that he's UNDER his pillow.

Same nap, new position. I guess the bumper served its purpose for a little bit.

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Picture perfect fruit from our garden! Super yummy too.
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My latest painting projects. This clock used to be all off-white/black crackle. So you can imagine how it practically disappeared on the wall. I've got red in the living room, so I went with red to pop it off the wall :0)

We received this bookshelf as a wedding gift 7 years ago and it's been sitting in our garage for the last three. I decided to paint it and put it in Jonas's room. I didn't have enough brown paint, so I had to mix a bunch. It looked like grey, but it turned out to be brown once it dried. So I painted everything but the back brown and obviously the back I painted blue.

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We went camping last weekend with Jason & Tevya. It was super fun as usual. Here are some pics using my nifty camera:

The FIRE.

Writing our names with FIRE.

I love it when he puts his hands behind his back. Here he is watching Jason start the fire.

One of Jonas's favorite words is HOT. Here he is showing us his sign.

He pretty much followed the boys around wherever they went. He was always just a few steps behind.

Pete trying to break a branch into burnable pieces by hitting it on a huge boulder.

Folks, I didn't use a filter or alter this picture in any way. Nature made those eyes look that BLUE. Click on the picture to see it bigger.

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Goal: get inside the box. Step one: slide chair over to stool. Step two: climb on chair. Step three: climb on stool. Step four: get inside and empty the contents of the pencil holder into box!

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Jonas helping me clean up his mess. {see next picture}

Oh yes, our first experience with toilet paper in the tub. That's right--TOILET PAPER! Two rolls to be exact. Boy was it FUN...for him at least. The square basket thing is what normally holds the paper and the sneaky bugger got it and did some damage.

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Why this kid will not be playing video games any time soon. He was seriously in a trance and it took a minute for Pete to get him snapped out of it. His eyes started watering because he wouldn't blink!

Jumping on the trampoline @ grandma's house. He loves to jump {even without the trampoline} and can actually get off the floor!

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One of the many Arlington's in the world...

We went on a trip to visit Nana {Pete's mom}, in Arlington, for her birthday. Now, I didn't realize there were so many Arlington's in our country......30 to be exact. Yeesh! Well, we went to the one in Oregon...population 524 {with our visit, we made it 534}. It was a lot of fun. We left just after Pete checked out of his classroom for the summer and stayed for the weekend. We ate lots of good food {go figure} and just had a blast doing lots of different things: hanging out at the marina {Arlington is on the Colombia River}, kayaking, watching movies {my SIL Heidi and I watched North & South--I highly recommend if you like the Pride & Prejudice type movies}, geocaching, reading {I read Rose Daughter--thanks Allison}, playing SET, and lots of other random things.

Nana has this...thing...not sure what it is...maybe a blanket or something. Anyway, Pete put it on and pretended to be a dog. Of course Jonas loved it.

Jonas absolutely ♥'s sunglasses:

***My fav***

Happy Birthday, Nana!

Jonas meeting Grannie Unternahrer {Pete's grandma} for the first time:

Pics from our trip to the Bonneville Dam Sturgeon Fish Hatchery Place {or whatever it is called}:

Hey blogging world. Let me introduce you to Herman.

Pretty much the UGLIEST fish I've ever seen {no offense, Herman}! You can see Tom, Cami, and Megan in the background.

They can get up to 12 feet long! I think he was 8 feet...maybe 10?!? I can't remember.
Nana, Levi, and Lucas checking out the BEAST.
Jonas & the other kids feeding the Rainbow Trout.

A spidey in the pretty flower!

Well, that was most of our trip. Check that one off of the list!