July pictures

Here are a few pictures of the kids taken in July. Here Zoe is pushing Ethan in her baby doll stroller. She is pretty strong for a tiny girl!

We baked and decorated cupcakes one day. Ethan decorated his first cupcake and could not wait to eat it. Basically he would decorate one and then eat one (instead of decorating all of the cupcakes and them eating them). They had a good time and the cupcakes were tasty.

Yahoo has their annual picnic for families. We went early this year so we can beat the crowds. We played all of the games and won prizes. Ethan drove Zoe around in the race car ride. Both kids got their face painted (well Zoe got her arm painted actually).

Of course - Ethan was Batman.
Zoe had a pretty butterfly painted on her arm.

4th of July

Ethan had a 4th of July parade at school where each preschool class made special hats, waived American flags and marched around their school:




On the actual holiday, we celebrated at Jim and Charity's house with Jen and Rommel and their family. They had games with fun prizes, kids dancing, showed an outdoor movie, tons of good food and a few fireworks. John and I even won the balloon toss game!

That is it for now!

Zoe at 22 months old

Zoe is 22 months old now and is quite a character. She loves to sing and dance. She learns new songs everyday but right now her favorite songs are "ABC's" and "Ba Ba Blacksheep". Here is a short clip of her singing ABCs (and doing a few dance steps too):



Last week, Zoe got her ears pierced. We've been wanting to pierce them since she was a baby but decided to wait because Zoe always scratched her ears when she got mad. Since she doesn't do that anymore, we decided it was time. She obviously didn't enjoy getting them pierced but I think she likes them now.

For her last birthday, Zoe got a baby doll and a stroller for her baby doll. Although she likes her baby doll, I think she likes the stroller more. In fact, her and Ethan take turns sitting in it and pushing eachother in this mini stroller. But when Ethan isn't there, Zoe doesn't wait around - nope, she just pushes herself around: