Weekend away

I'm sure all of you Coons girls remember our excursions to the cabin. Oh the memories we made! Building forts, catching frogs, & oh our walks with Grandma! If it wasn't for her I don't know what I'd do if I had to go to the bathroom when I was in the middle of no where! She taught me so much! We took our kids up there this last weekend. They had so much fun! Although the frog pond is dried up we went to Mirror Lake & took the kids on the raft & we did some four wheeling.

Jeff caught a bird and as soon as I took the picture it flew onto my dad's head.

Ethan and his cousin Kayla "fishing" with their sticks. 

Hanging out on the raft at Mirror Lake

Grandma was Lexi's best friend the entire weekend. She didn't want to have much to do with me or her daddy. But that's ok... she had fun with Gramma Jann

The whole clan at Mirror Lake. It was windy so Lexi's hair looks funny, but who cares we were camping.

There's the bird Jeff caught, it was just sitting on the deck of the cabin. It was very friendly.

The boys took the kids to the shooting range. Ethan watched as they shot the clay pigeons. Today Ethan found me his toy wrench & a penny & told me to put it in there & throw it in the air so he could shoot it... what an imagination!

This is the Place

The hour long wait in the hot hot sun was worth the wait for Ethan. He got to ride a pony for a minute & he loved every bit of it.

I'm a little slow on this update, but a couple weekends ago we went to This Is The Place Heritage park. Everything they had going was free. They had a petting zoo, pony rides, crafts, pizza & ice cream. They had these cute little houses for the kids to play in. We had a hard time getting Ethan out of the pretend store.

Ethan at the fire station

Lexi and her cousin Carson right outside the Indian teepee. She doesn't look too happy, but it's only cause I made her hold still to take her picture. She really enjoyed herself

Ethan is actually touching the cow with that one finger. He was very brave!

I heard Lexi actually pet the animals too. But she liked them better from a distance. 

  

Turn that frown upside down

  To eliminate some of Ethan's tantrums I started singing the Primary song If You Chance To Meet A Frown. I've been doing this now for a couple of weeks & have had a pretty good turn around. I can usually get him to smile about whatever he was crying about (usually something stupid). The other day I had a frown on my face, I was having a really bad day and Ethan started singing the song. Of course I couldn't help but smile & forget my troubles. It was so sweet how he was concerned about me & wanted to make sure I was happy.

   Ethan is constantly asking questions... "what do crabs eat?" "Why?" what does this mean? Questions I should certainly know the answers to, they're easy... but I don't know how to answer them, I know some of the answers but don't know how to phrase it so he can understand. And sometimes I tell him I just don't know... that doesn't satisfy him at all. Mommy should know everything!  I wish I could satisfy his questions. I'm so glad that he is curious & wants to learn, if only I knew everything!

   Lexi is learning songs... we were riding in the car one day and Ethan started singing Do As I'm Doing... Lexi started doing what Ethan was doing. It was so cute! We then started singing Popcorn Popping... she did the actions to that song too and whenever I ask her to sing me a song she'll start "singing" (I can't understand anything but pop pppp) and doing the actions to Popcorn Popping. I love to see them learn... they always surprise me with how much they know.