Visiting the Vineyard

We made a trip to my parents' Vineyard in Tamaha to see all of our family and help prune the vines for the summer, but first we had to stop by Granny's house to gather the eggs from her chickens.

Fresh eggs.

Cannon took a little nap in his stroller while everyone worked on the vines.

Campbell loved playing with her cousin, Aiden, and riding her little Barbie scooter all over her the land. We laughed so hard when she asked Mimi where the backyard was. She was trying to figure out her boundaries and didn't realize she could ride her little scooter all over the land. :)

Aiden's tractor was about 10 times faster than Campbell's scooter, but she didn't mind one bit. She was totally content with her slow-moving little vehicle.

Enjoying a yummy pancake breakfast.

Campbell's BFF

Campbell's precious little friend from preschool comes over after school 1 day a week. They just love each other and have so much fun together. We found them like this, playing in Campbell's bedroom the other day.

Not too much later, they had convinced Kevin to read, Pinkalicious to them. He kindly obliged. :) What a sweet daddy.

Cannon has been utilizing Campbell's old bouncer. He can bounce to town! We try to ignore the fact that it is all pink and girly as can be.

More Fun in the Fort

Cannon: 7 Months Old

Cannon turned 7 months old on April 1st. He is becoming less and less of a baby, but is still much more "baby" than Campbell was at this age. He finally decided he loves baby food, and he's been having one meal of baby food at dinner time each day. We're getting ready to add in a baby food breakfast as well.

If you were to stop by our house for a visit, you might find Cannon cruising around in this stroller. He likes to be held All. The. Time. and we get so tired of holding him all day so we've started putting him in his little umbrella stroller and pushing him around the house. He really enjoys it. :)

He figured out he can reach into this cabinet that holds all of the sippy cups and snack bowls.

He has figured out how to fight sleep lately too. He pulls out all the tricks like the fake cough, biting on the blanket to act like his teeth really hurt, the fish out of water trick where he arches his back and almost falls out of my arms, the look at mom and laugh trick, the throw in a little scream while he's crying trick, all of them. But then, if I give up and take him back out into the living room, everything is suddenly fine. Little trickster. :)

Playtime with Campbell

I wanted to document some of the little games and creative things that Campbell comes up with. I know she does a lot of the same things that other kids her age are doing, but I want her to be able to look back when she's older and see how she played.

She loves playdoh soooooo much. She comes up with some pretty creative designs.

On this particular day, she set up a blanket and a pillow for each of her dolls. She made Kevin participate as well. He's such a good sport. :)

Notice that each of them have a cup of water as well.

Another thing that she loves doing right now is watching cooking videos on YouTube. She watches videos on my phone of Betty Crocker cooking segments showing how to bake children's cakes, cupcakes, and cookies. It cracks us up. Then she likes to pretend she is baking cakes with her playdoh and she'll say things like, "Let's spread the icing evenly" and "Now put it in the oven and bake for 45 minutes." Pretty sure she said something about using a pastry bag for the icing the other day too.