The Franklin County Fair

doug and I signed jonah up for clown school after watching Nojoe's clown circus on Saturday. with the economy and the job market the way it is, we're pretty confident there's always going to be a need for good clowns.

hannah was more into chewing her blanket that watching the any juggling

they had llamas, deer, a kangaroo, a pot belly pig, a calf, a skunk, a snake and some other unidentified animals for jonah to be spooked by...

bambi was cute and hungry, I feed him most of our carrots

I hope he never out grows over-alls

lunch break for dougie poo

doug met us at the park for lunch and got to dip his tootsies in the water with jonah before heading back to work...I'd take a lunch date like that over the cafeteria any day.

breakfast with ooo ahh ahhs

jonah feed his monkey while hannah ate hers...

a good rainy day activity

After Jonah and Hadley's last day at Curiosity Camp, Amanda suggested we head to the Franklin Park Conservatory to avoid being indoors all afternoon since the rain wasn't letting up. Everyone enjoyed our visit and Jonah got to bring home his first catepillar. We're watching him turn into a butterfly. It's nearly impossible to explain why we're watching a worm in a container to a two year old. I keep saying, "he's a catepillar now, but very soon he'll turn into a beautiful butterfly...it's magic"... I clearly need to brush up on my explanations b/c one of these days he's going to call me on the "it's magic" line.

(hadley wearing her inflattable potty chair and cracking all of us up...don't worry, it was clean ;)

(hadley, olivia and jonah trueman...poor hannah, one of these days she'll bust of of that car seat and get in all of the pictures)

(another photo op)

(amanda was praying to the rain gods...ok, she was probably reaching for the butterflies)

Jonah's new love...Chautauqua

We headed to Grandma and Papa T's house in Chautauqua a few weekends ago and boy did Jonah have a ball! He got to drive Papa's boat, learn how to fish, watch the prop planes take off and land, go out to a fancy anniversary dinner, play in the kayaks, play on the beach in the institute, miss naps and more! Hannah went on two boat rides which lulled her right to sleep...maybe that's why she didn't sleep at night ;-) We're looking forward to going back next weekend to see Missy, Scott, Ana and Ella!

Farmer Jonah

Our container pots have done pretty well so far. The tomatoes are growing nice and big and Jonah's green beans were ready for harvesting yesterday. Too bad I over cooked them at dinner time, they did taste pretty good!

Janie Jump Up

Hannah Janie learned how to jump yesterday...with a little assistance from her big brother. She loved it! She got to use her little toes to push and twirl around. The fabric seat tasted pretty good to her, too.

4th of July

We had a nice 4th of July this year. It may not have been exactly what we envisioned but we were happy to be together! A few highlights....We saw Red, White and Boom (on tv), we heard Worthington's fireworks (from our back porch) and we saw our first Upper Arlington parade (for real, we did go)! We had a picnic at Highbanks and played in the Olentangy River with Jonah, we went for a family run and included Bella and the gang came over for a cookout. All in all, Doug and I enjoyed our weekend together and laughed quite a bit at how our lives have changed.

(one of the best floats, the theme was, "there's no place like home")

(I thought that was cute, and these ladies were having fun!)

(you know who loved all the TRUCKS!)

(I knew the lady that offered to take our picture wasn't drinking coffee in that tumbler - talk about double vision ;)

(our happy, patriotic children)


(jonah let me borrow his new glasses during the parade)

(4 months old and loving her daddy)

(mr. cutie patootie riding his motorcycle on the deck)

(uncle kev-bo getting in a little practice)

(he was one of my favorites...liz would have been on the ground crying)

WE DID IT!

Jonah, Hannah, Bella and I survived our first week w/o Doug! He went to Boston for work from Saturday morning through tonight. His flight has been delayed but I'm crossing my fingers he gets home before Midnight.
We had a fun and busy week. We made out at the neighborhood garage sale...a $10 picnic table/water table, a $2 fisher price tricycle which I ruined last night trying to spray paint it blue, a $5 cozy coupe car and a 4x4 truck for $1. Amanda and Jay had us over for some play time and dinner on sunday...thank you for everything this last week! Jonah went to Curiosity Camp on Monday and Wednesday for a few hours, we tried a new park which ended up being the dirtiest park in cbus, we went out for dinner at Bob Evans (which is apparently the place for mom's to take their children during the week when their husbands are out of town) b/c I wasn't alone. We visited our relatives at the zoo, worked on some crafts and watched mickey mouse from time to time. Despite a few tired and grumpy calls to my mom, I think we did a pretty great job.

Some picts from the week...



some boating on the deck

mrs. gorilla getting some zzzzz's

Mr. Leopard snoozing, too

Jonah pulling, not riding his bike through the path...it's so much easier that way

he didn't seem to notice his hat was inside out and backwards which made it that much funnier to me

Amanda and Olivia on the hammock with Hannah

Just a couple of guys sharing some laughs...