Thursday, June 25, 2009

Hello Summer

So, it's been a little while since the last post. The weather has changed drastically from being cool and comfortable, to the point where Michele gets too hot after being outside for only 5 minutes. Yes, you read that right, Michele got too hot. Of course, she also recently bought a kiddie pool for the backyard, and the neighbors don't seem to mind her being out in it with Jake. If they saw me in a bathing suit, I'm sure authorities would be called. I'm not sure we have the correct zoning to have an albino sasquatch walking around in our backyard.

Per usual, the summer calendar is filling up faster than I'd prefer. MKnE came up for a while and met us after Church on Father's Day, but they had to head back for an Open House before we made it to the Trosko's. Emily is getting so big, and smiles adorably when she hears Kelly talk. Of course, pulling the camera out negated the effect, meaning I didn't get a chance to snap a picture of it.

We then moved most of the group over to Fenton at GnGT's. We did a little boating, and then headed back to their condo for some dinner. Papa was there for a bit, but got called back into work, leaving Meme and Alison with us and the Herman family.

Alison got to use her new fishing pool for the first time at the Trosko's. I was very impressed when she actually followed my instructions on how to remove the fish she caught. She didn't quite get it, but she wasn't afraid to touch it and actually tried taking the hook out herself. I ended up pulling it out for her, and I think the fish will live to nibble at hotdog on a hook another day.

You can find our latest photographs here and here. I also finally got around to sorting through some of the videos. I'm going in reverse order, so don't freak out if sometime down the road I make another post and Jake seems to get younger and younger!

This is from one of Jake's last swim classes. At the end of each session they would play a game with the older kids. The first week Jake wanted nothing to do with it, but talked about it the whole way home. He didn't miss playing it after that!


Near the end of the school year, Jake started making what he called, "sticker projects". One day he decided that paper just wouldn't work as an acceptable medium any more.


Here's a quick video of one of the games Jake likes to play in his new pool.

Lastly, we have a montage of three songs that we were able to record him singing. He does a pretty good job at remembering songs, and can usually recognize his favorites in just a few beats. On the last song in the video, he typically only sang the ending to the verse, but then, all of a sudden, busted out with the whole thing and amazed us. He gets most of the words right, but in his defense, I had to go to about 5 different lyric sites to get the words since they all differed slightly.