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"People are better and smarter when they have to strive and struggle. It's the fight that makes you strong. We are not victims. We are strong Americans." -Bob Lonsberry

Dinner At The

This is one of those hole in the wall kind of restaurants where the food is good, home cooked, and reasonably priced. Another plus is that they are clean.

Joe about to enjoy his fish fry and potatoe skins.

Gio enjoying smiley face pancakes.

Breetz is actually pretty good at using a fork.
Ahhh yummm the Farmer's kitchen has the really, really great chocolate peanut butter milkshakes.

Fiddler's Picnic

There was a small "playground" next to the pavilion where the music was playing. A very nice set up because the boys could play and we could still hear the music.

Breetz thinking about going down the slide. You can see the pavilion behind joe.

Discovery: Acorns come from trees.

Plane overhead

Us on the pier.

Black Caps

Yum!

Picking together

He tends to pick the red unripe ones. Probably because they are easier to see.

Yum!

One in each hand.

Gio tells Fancy about how fun picking black caps is. If you look closely you can see he has his shirt on insideout. As soon as we told him we were going to pick black caps he ran and put it on byhimself. Something he doesn't voluntarily do.

Mowing On A Foggy Day

Hangin' Out Together

In Mom's Font Yard

Tricolor sage

Red Leaves

Ripening Crab apples

Driving Home From The Library We Saw...

A path that divided a field and lead to a big pond off in the distance.

A red barn and silo

A beautiful blue sky filled with puffy clouds.

Rolling field

Excitement

They did some harvesting in the back field and Gio was very exited about seeing a combine
outside his window.

Apple Sausage & Eggs

Wegmans sells apple sausage. I decided to try it. I scrambled some eggs up with the sausage, corn, onions, and parsley. It was really good, reminded me of my Grandma's home cookin'.

Walking Home

Woodchuck

A Visit to...

Bear teeterer

Seagull sunning.

Can all geese bend their necks like the one sitting down?

Goose Relaxing

The park has beautiful gardens.

View of the lake from the gardens.

at the flag pole.

Breetz On Nana's Lap

Tickle...

tickle,...

tickle.

Looking at a book together.

Increase In Vocabularies

Breetz vocabulary has increased just this afternoon he said, "duck" for the first time. He now also says ni nite, bye bye, upa, down, more, tickle tickle tickle and on. Gio has gotten him to say other things like car but they just haven't stuck.

Gio is picking up new words and phrases all the time. He remembers EVERYTHING!

Last night the moon was very bright and redish. "Oh the moon is beautiful. Gio come see." I said. Tonight he looks out his bedroom window and says something like "Oh look, the moon is just beautiful."

Gio has also started playing with words. He will take a word and change it slightly then try using it that way. Sometimes he tries it out on me. Other times he just repeats it to himself over and over usually in a sing songy sort of way. Sometimes the word changes more and more as he continues to repeat it. Then he may say something like "Mama what did I just say?"

The boys also go back and forth repeating sounds to each other. They both seem to enjoy this activity.

Playing

Gio is obsessed with trucks with scoops on them driven by farmers or "scruction" workers.

A Visit To...

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This very nice man had feathers in the shape of an owl's face on the back of his costume. It's hard to see but he actually has an owl perched on his left hand.
If you gave this bird a dollar he would put it in a black box. This was a fun way to give to a great cause. I give Hawk Creek a lot of credit because the do not receive any government funding and all the "staff" are volunteers.

This young lady had some kind of bird of prey. I don't recall the name.

Most of the Renaissance costumes we saw were soo gorgeous. I especially liked the back of this one. It flowed so beautifully.

There was a tent that painted henna tattoos for $5. It's hard to see in the picture but it had sparkles on it.

One of the belly dancers just couldn't get enough of Breetz. She just thought he was the cutest and I have to agree:-).

Happily walking around carrying a henna reference book.
Every few hours there was a play that took place called The Fractured Fairytale. We tried to see it but there wasn't enough seating, we had to watch in the hot sun, and most importantly the boy's attention span was just too short.

Looking high and low for the snake.

A loud gun shot like sound boomed through the air and this Andean Condor got all bent out of shape.

Sunning himself

"Dude let me outa here!!"

" Can I brush you?"

"I saw you at Springdale Farm."