Hey folks! It's been awhile. I'd say I've been busy, but goodness gracious I'm on summer break. We're taking advantage of our first summer as a family and it has been quite nice. Gee willakers (sp?), it's been a bit since I updated so a lot has happened. School's out...as I stated earlier, but I just wanted to reiterate.
Since summer has started we've been keeping busy. It'll be a picture heavy week (I had a former student say that she basically just looks at the pictures anyway. Internet nerds call that TL;DR (stands for Too Long Didn't Read). We spent a day at the zoo (Kate had a second visit today with a friend). That was a nice bunch of walking. I hadn't been there for a looong time, but I loved it as always. Daniel liked to watch the monkeys. I think it's because he recognizes them from the pants he wears with the monkey on the butt.
We also spent a day camping at the LAKE OF THREE FIRES near Bedford, IA. We did so with some friends of ours and it was great fun. We're going to head back there some other time and try for the overnight thing. I'm just not quite ready for that yet...we'll get there though. This is out of order, but we celebrated Mothers' Day for Kate's family on Memorial Day. We have a great field by our house so...what do the Elsasser men do when there's a big open field???...Golf baby. It was a good time though. Lots of good food.
We've been running lots of errands, doing lots of yard work, cleaning a bunch around the house, going out with friends, visiting the splash pads at Shadow Lake, moving dirt at our church, working at our schools, fishing with friends...just keeping busy. BUT...in the essence of becoming long winded (I DID take a few weeks off though), I'll move on.
We had Daniel's appointment yesterday. He weighs 22lbs 14.5oz (83rd Percentile) . He's 29.5" long (86th). His head is 18.5" around (90th). The doctor said that he's lowering in the weight/height percentile, but he's making up for it with his large noggin. Way to go son, so proud.
Here's some pictures!
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| Daniel protecting cousin Elaina. |
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| I've decided that I'm going to tell Daniel when he's older that the style was wearing your pants way up high. |
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| He's actually holding a ladle too. |
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| Camping with our friends. |
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| Hanging at the splash pad. |
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| Hanging with his homie...Joe HOMAN that is. |
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| Kate spraying Daniel. Don't worry, he loves it. |
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| Daniel's friend the penguin. |
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| From our visit to Auburn. Pre-shave and a haircut............2 bits. |
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| Playing with Grandma Elsasser. |
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| Probably one of my favorite pictures. |
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| Golfing in the field. |
