MONKEY JOE'S & SPANKY'S

Monday morning we went to Monkey Joe's. It's like a big warehouse with tons of bounce houses and jump arounds. There weren't a lot of kids around which was nice. Violet and Jackson didn't have to deal with too many kids that moved faster than them.

It took Violet a couple of minutes to warm up. Jackson was diving right in finally she followed along. Having him to watch helped.



Violet did exactly what Jackson did. If he was running around in circles, she'd do the same. If he'd fall down Violet would fall down too. Very cute.

This made me nervous. She got run over by a couple older kids who were in a hurry and wouldn't wait so they just climbed over her. Even better the parents are just standing their letting it happen. An employee stepped in and helped Violet the rest of the way.

She came flying down the slide so fast she hardly had time to react. She got up and asked to do it again. So up she went and down she came, only this time she crashed at the end. She was done then.

Getting tired.

Lunch at Applebee's. Cheese!!

Violet was pretty tired. Her left eye gets kind of lazy when she gets tired. It's really noticeable in pictures and I've noticed it since she was an infant.

After dinner we all headed to Spanky's for icecream. It's like Ted Drew's only closer to Grandma's house. It's been there since I was in grade school.
Yes, Violet is in a different outfit. We had a little poo incident. I think she had to much apple juice. Gross.

BAR-B-Q

Bar-b-q at Karen and Duane's house.

Violet and Jackson playing together in Jackson's new big boy room.

Grandma bought bubble guns! We didn't stay outside long because it was nasty hot.

MAGIC HOUSE

We went to the Magic House Saturday morning because it was too hot to do any outside activities. Our plans for Grants Farm and Suson Park will have to wait till September.

Kind of hard to crawl in a dress. My bad!

HARRY CONNICK JR. CONCERT

We are back from our STL trip. I have lots of pictures to post. Here's my first batch.
Got to see Harry Connick Jr. in concert friday night at the Fox. I have always liked the interior of the Fox and finally took some pictures. Till I got busted! Mom and I sat in row 15, dead center. Very good view. My friend Joni and her daughter Elaine(age 6) had front row seats. Harry talked to Elaine and said her name about 7 or 8 times. Very cool!

Lobby

Lobby ceiling.

More lobby.

Stage. Picture of the curtain didn't turn out so well.

Above stage.

Floor level. Here's where I got busted for taking pics inside the theater. Apparently you can only take pictures of the lobby. I also had my big SLR which is very noticeable and I think people freak out when they see a camera that big.

FLASHBACK FRIDAYS

Grandma Fabsits to Violet.

DIRTY BABY

NEW TREES & 'MATERS

One of our neighbors father-in-law gets whole sale prices at a local nursery so a bunch of neighbors and us all went in to order trees. We ordered two and got a really good deal.

The one in the background near the fence is called a Serviceberry. It's a shrub tree. You can eat the berries if you want.


We pulled out our birch tree that we planted three years ago and never grew. Chris literally lifted it right out of the ground. It wasn't dead, but the roots never took off. Very weird. This is and Autumn Sunset Maple. It will turn bright red in the fall. We also finally finished the area around the bird house. I planted phlox, lavendar, and honeysuckle. we officially have birds living in three of the six apartments.

Here are my out of control tomatoes. The left one is an Early Girl, though typically by now we should have red ones on that plant. I think the cold May weather set them back. The plant on the right are cherry tomatoes. I've picked three. We will have hundreds of these. They are very tastey!

SAY WHAT? WEDNESDAYS

Violet definitely knows who the ice cream man is and gets excited when she hears his bell. Over the weekend he came by late in the afternoon almost around dinner time. We were inside getting dinner ready and Violet stopped what she was doing and began running back and forth from the front door to the kitchen yelling " I nee money, I nee money!". I guess talking to her about how we need money to pay for things has sunk in. So I guess I've got 18 more years of hearing 'I need money'.

WASH HANDS!!!!!

Violet will find any excuse to wash her hands. She could have a crumb or a spec of fuzz or whatever and she'll yell "wash hands!".

JUNE 7, 2003

TEEPEE

I finished this tent for Violet about a week and a half ago. I used outdoor canvas material that comes on the 60" bolt. The material is supposed to be fade and mildew resistant. I don't plan on it getting wet but it's nice to know it won't fade. The 6 poles are 1"pvc pipes. They are 7" tall. The tent itself is 5ft tall. The pipes are held together with nylon rope.

I decided to put windows in it so it wouldn't get stuffy inside. There are two windows that have a roll down shade.

I didn't use a pattern. I looked on line at lots of tutorials on how to construct one and didn't find exactly what I was looking for so I kind of made it up as I went. I took elements from a lot of the ones I saw online. I put the pvc pipes together, spread out each leg with even spacing between, and used that measurement to cut my triangles. Total cost of materials $65.