The good, the bad, the silly

Kyle and I tried to take photos of Caleb and Josie for their (late) 3 year old and 5 year old pictures rather than taking them to an actual professional.  Here's a sampling of the near 700 pictures we took...In order:  some good ones, some bad ones, then some silly ones.  I'm sure you can figure out where the next category begins. 

Hanging around & trying to stay cool

We've been trying to stay somewhat cool in the heat wave of 2012.  Swimming at a local pool (though I didn't take the camera along), playing in the basement...

 cold watermelon..

 

 ...and the tiny kiddy pool that the kids try to swim laps in...this gives them good practice in counting to high numbers

 

 

Holland Beach vacation 2012

Beach Time:

 Dawson and Josie

  

Body surfing

 

 Beautiful Dylan...check out those lashes!

 Caleb with his tongue out (again). 

 

Caleb and Nathan, racing to the frisbee

 

 Josie and Peter

Mini Golf and Go-carts:

 

                                 Nathan                               and                                    Daniel

I sometimes see pictures of them and am amazed how big they are getting! 

 

 Kyle and Josie

 

Joel and Daniel

  

Dawson

 

 Shontel

 

Nathan on his own

 Janet and Jamie

 Picking Blueberries:

 

 A rare moment where Josie isn't cramming them into her mouth. 

 Grandpa V and Peter (who doesn't seem to want his picture taken)

Time for swimming lessons again

We have the kids enrolled in swimming lessons again this year, but this time, with a teacher that has a bit of a kinder approach.  Unfortunately, the kids had to miss 1 class out of the 4 because of a day-long bout of vomiting.

 Caleb is doing great, excited to go to swim and loving his confidence. 

 

 check out that technique! He is really getting pretty good

 

 

 

 Josie is doing great at swimming, but is not excited to go or loving it when she is there (she may have preferred the vomiting).  she volunteers to go first on every task because she just wants to get the whole thing over with.  Her skills are improving, even if her love for going under is not. 

 

Look who's 3 already

Josie celebrated turning 3 on June 15 and enjoyed being the birthday girl for the entire day, and then a couple days beyond that as well.

 This is one of the funnier attempts I had trying to get a good picture of her with the balloon.  I did ask her to hold it in front of her (meaning her stomach). 

She then got to celebrate on Sunday, June 17 at the cottage once again...

more candles and cake.

 

 

One messy and silly 3-year-old girl

Caleb and Josie both rode behind the boat a lot that day--some tube rides, some toboggan rides.