Water Fountains

Uncle Matt and I took the kids to Cazenovia Park to enjoy the water fountains and have a little picnic yesterday. The fountains were tons of fun and the kids were quite entertaining. The picnic was not so successful...the bees were everywhere!

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Super cute picture of Abby

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Corn Hole

Uncle Matt has been giving Jonas some Corn Hole lessons!

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Fantasy Island 2010

We took our annual trip to Fantasy Island on Sunday. As usual, Jonas loved all the rides!

This is us soaking wet from the Log Flume. It really was not hot enough that day to be that wet!

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Feeding the geese Cheerios! Even some fish swam up and ate some.

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The classic Merry-Go-Round picture

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Jonas swearing in to become a deputy sheriff of Western Town. He even stayed awake for the whole show this year!

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Choo Choo!!

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Jonas doesn't do too well with spinny rides, and he started to look sick half way through this one. It's a good thing his cousins are nice and slowed down on spinning the teacup!

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Jonas went on a few "bigger" rides too, but since the adults had to ride along on those, we didn't get too many pictures. Jonas is definitely going to be a little daredevil!

Swimming with Joey

We try to make it over to Uncle Larry's pool to swim every time we get the chance. It's even better when Joey is there! Jonas and Joey had a great time together last week, and were even making plans for their next get-together by the time the morning was over.

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Museum Trip

The Buffalo Museum of Science has a dinosaur exhibit going on! Jonas, Great Grandma, and I headed to check it out. Great Grandma read to Jonas all about each kind of dinosaur, and his favorite ones were the Triceratops and the robotic dinosaur.

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We saw some other ones, too.

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Jonas was actually super excited about seeing the whole museum, and looked at every exhibit. Here's some highlights:

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We also made crayon rubbings of different dinosaurs, worked on puzzles, weighed ourselves on every planet, and saw tons of different animals!

Burchfield Adventures

Jonas and I went to the Burchfield park today to play on the playground and in the creek. Jonas threw about 50 stones in the creek, and waded in up to his knees.

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The highlight, however, was not so much getting to play in the water. It was this little acorn Jonas found, and he loved that it floats! He threw it in the water and caught it before it floated away a ton of times.

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After playing in the creek, we decided to walk along some trails to find squirrels to give the acorn to. Jonas led the way, telling me which path was the right one to go down to find squirrels. The other paths, apparently, had lions. As it turned out, we never found any squirrels, and we got completely lost. We ended up coming out somewhere around a cemetery after walking for about an hour and a half. Lucky for us we could find the creek, and we followed it back to the playground. Jonas never complained about walking once, because he thought our adventure was so fun!

Jonas to a girl at the playground: Want to play hide and seek with me?
Girl: I'm too old for that game.

So Jonas burst into tears. She still didn't play with him!

The day turned out to be beautiful and sunny. At the playground!

Motorcycle Man

Jonas is still obsessed with Uncle Mike's motorcycle. Yesterday he got to try out everything, the bike, helmet, and glasses! He was loving it! Look at that cool face...

Playground Day

On Monday we went to the playground at Fireman's Park. Despite the wading pool not being open, Jonas had lots of fun and made friends with a couple kids who were there playing. Favorite ride - tire swing!

Jonas to a little boy at the playground: I'm bigger. You're 40 pounds and I'm 5 pounds!

Black Lake

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Jonas is home safe and sound from vacation with his dad. He joined the whole Herdlein clan at Black Lake!

New Jersey Vacation - Part 3

On Thursday we rented a boat to go tubing. We all had a great time, but we were sore the next day!

Jonas rode on the tube twice, once with me and once with Aunt Lisa. He would've gone by himself if I'd let him!

By the end of the ride Jonas had fallen asleep cuddling with me :)

After dropping Jonas and Bekah off for naps and having some lunch, we headed back out, and tried some doubles tubing!

Everyone looking tired

What vacation would be complete without some mini golf?

Sparklers!!!

This was our last day on the beach. I think Jonas was covered with sand from head to toe the whole vacation!

Burying Aunt Lisa

All in all we had a great trip, and Jonas was really a trooper through the whole thing. I can't wait for Disney 2012!

New Jersey Vacation - Part 2

We spent a day at the Great Adventure theme park. Jonas was a little daredevil, and he was disappointed that he wasn't tall enough to go on the big roller coasters. Even so, he had a great time going on the rides that he was big enough for, and we were all good and exhausted by the end of the day!

Ready for the day!

This was Jonas' favorite ride, but I'm not sure Bethany appreciated getting all wet! Jonas and I were soaked!

Aunt Lisa was terrified of the ferris wheel, which was not a good thing, because Bethany loved it and wanted to ride over and over!

How is it possible to go from this:

to this, in less than 1 minute?

Meeting Bugs Bunny and Tweety Bird!

The teacups were tons of fun and Bethany and Jonas loved spinning super fast!

Sweet little Abby being her usual good-natured self

According to my pictures, all grandma did was talk on the phone all day!