happy father's day!

i am posting these pictures a little late, but we actually celebrated father's day during the week following the holiday. (mommy & daddy worked on father's day.) but you can celebrate AnY day, right?? on monday i gave this "big ben" lego-clock set to daddy and we worked it together. daddy says i did a good job on following the building directions. and i also added a few touches of my own. on tuesday grammy & pappy came to my house for lunch. i played chalk colors in the driveway with pappy. we drew lines around pappy & mommy & then colored in the chalk-people.

i love the post office...

i am out-growing so many of my clothes. so recently we mailed a package to my cousin madison in texas. i enjoyed decorating the package with stickers. but i ReALLY do love the post office. "sweet pickles" is a book series that i like to read & one of the characters is a stork who works in the post office. i think stork is really funny. and the american flags i get to see at the post office add to my joy. i tried to lift the package, but it was pretty heavy.

sharing everyone's toys...

i continue to enjoy my legos. i share legos with daddy & he built this beachy cottage for me. i love playing with the lego people at this cottage. i have named the lego people like this: joey, kelly, mary kathryn, mr atoz, & spock. (the last 2 are obviously named for star trek characters following a partial viewing of an episode.)

mommy has also received a new toy recently. it is an embroidery system (i really like to say that!) she is still learning how to use it, but she lets me push the buttons! i even drew this picture of the machine. "MK" is on the drawing because mommy has practiced monogramming those letters a LoT!! hopefully we will soon have some embroidery that is worth sharing on this blog!

just hangin' out...

recently, when people ask me, "what are you doing?" my response is this: "just hangin' out." here are pictures of me just hangin' out, enjoying the beautiful weather. i LovE SuMMeR!!

my own private beach...

i've realized that i never shared this neat creation with you! daddy made it for me shortly after we returned from panama city. we had brought some beach-sand home with us so i could keep a little piece of the beach. daddy made this box & we put my real beach-sand in it. he even made the little kite just like the one we used. i LoVE it! and little pink dolphin rides in this blue car to go to the beach.

play day with the dysons...

wednesday was a huge play-day with my friends owen & eli dyson. we tried happy feet in the driveway, but it was just too hot. so then some of us did hula-hooping. mommy even tried the sit&spin. we also did bubbles & water balloons. i am usually scared of balloons so there aren't pictures of me in this activity. i was clinging to mommy. but i discovered that water balloons are not as noisy as air balloons. maybe i'll do water balloons again soon. then we decorated cupcakes too. here is the cake i made! BeaUTiFuL!! then we went to our neighborhood park for some swinging!! all of this fun wore me OuT!! on thursday morning, i slept until 8 am!!

clover-hunting...

pappy is good at finding 4-leaf clovers. he says it's because there's a patch of mutants in their backyard. i picked 3-leaf clovers too, just so they wouldn't feel left out.

lego-mania...

on saturday, we did several errands and also did some fun things for me. we went to the mall & ate ice cream (my fave is vanilla with rainbow sprinkles!) then we went to the lego store. WoW!!! that is a ReALLy NeaT place! i got a girls' lego set, a box of random blocks, about 6 mini-figures, & a cup of "pick-your-brick" items. i actually received some hello-kitty mega-blocks back at christmas, but i haven't paid much attention to all that. all of a sudden i am in LovE with legos!! i really think the legos fit together better than the mega-blocks do. but the mega-blocks sets are super cute -- mommy & daddy have yet to decide if we'll mix the two types together. (ha ha!) mommy & daddy are also having fun building things with me. mommy made this frog & duck. i made the "flag" (red white & blue blocks with eyes) & i also made the x-ray machine you can see just to the right of frog. little flag is going to the dentist & frog & duck are going to help flag take care of his teeth. at least that's what *i* think! and in the very bottom picture, you can see my toothpaste selections: cinnamon (brown block), bubble gum (blue block) & peppermint (red block.)