Heritage Park

Today during our walk downtown the kids wanted to take a pit stop in Heritage Park...sit in the shade and look for rollie-pollies. We've done this before, but this is the first time that Preston has asked to go see what the stone tablets are. He says he wants to be an "Army guy" when he grows up, so I thought this would be a great teaching moment. We walked over and I explained to him that all the names listed were men and women who had served in the military and that each tablet was for a different war or peacetime. He was really impressed to see that Papa Jene (Vietnam) and Wayland (Peacetime) were on there. And he was really happy to see that they didn't have (*) by their names - because as we learned that means those people died in service. We also think they need to add a new tablet for Iraq/Afghanistan. The whole experience only took about 5 minutes, but I hope I was able to make it clear that we should be grateful for all our service people and that being an "Army guy" would be a great job...even though it would make his momma worry a lot about him!

And a funny story about Cambree today! As I was sitting at the computer typing the above story, she is playing with the gizmo on the bottom of the chair. Then after a couple of seconds she walks around behind me, pulls my head back and says "sink" walks back to the chair and starts messing with the gizmo again. I begin to wonder what is happening when it dawns on me that we are playing beauty shop and she is washing my hair! How creative! I explain that my chair doesn't do that, but she still insists that it does. This probably all stems from her recent decision to have her haircut. Yesterday I mentioned to Preston that he needed a haircut and she said "me?" I told her no she didn't need one and she said she does. So I decided why not...hair is not that big of an issue to me and it will be cute to see her have a big girl haircut. I don't really have a plan for this, except that it is all taking place tomorrow morning @ 9:30. I have a lot of faith in our hairdresser, so I will just tell her to do her job and make her look adorable. Look for pics of the new do tomorrow!

I have also been meaning to blog about the playtime fun we have around here, or I should say Preston has around here. He has developed a "like" for the shows Ax Men and Ice Road Truckers. One day after having watched the shows the previous night he came up with this scenario. The "trees" are paintbrushes and the Ax Men cut them down and then the Ice Road Truckers haul them on big trailers over the ice! I thought it was pretty creative myself. And he also created a very interesting summer art piece. Using the scissors is a favorite around here and after he and Cambree turned a coloring page into a million tiny pieces, he decided that he would like to glue them to a piece of cardstock...hence this lovely masterpiece.

Summer is going entirely too fast somedays and then there are days like today, when it isn't going near fast enough!

Happy Independence Day and if you happen to be in Protection or Coldwater over the next 4 days, stop by and support your local cheerleaders and buy some fireworks!