Poppa Jack found Parker and Bennett a turtle to play with a few days ago. Clif asked me "why would you do such a thing to the poor turtle?" and he was right. After two days of Parker playing with him, one night he crawled out of the tub and went far, far away. He was fun while he lasted!

The weather has been so nice when it rained on the 4th (the majority of the day) we weren't quite sure what to do. In the morning, they went out to play in the rain on the deck.

Then before lunch we baked some cookiesIt finally stopped raining during nap time so we were able to go down the street to a 4th of July party and see some amazing fireworks. The couple has grandchildren and lots of toys to play on/with. Bennett immediately took to anything that was motorized which was unfortunate for me since he can't steer! He kind of got the hang of it by dark. Thankfully, there was a cute little bicycle that he could pedal.

Parker caught some kind of bug that she was proud of!

Bennett taking Parker for a ride

And finally the fireworks started. Parker kept saying over and over how BEAUTIFUL they were. After ten minutes or so they both got ansy so we went to another place to watch the show.

The back of Coco's truck worked out perfectly! They could watch the fireworks and still play around a little while being contained!

On Sunday, there wasn't any rain but it was too overcast to swim so we played with bubbles, rode bikes and took many rides in the golf cart.

Monday the sun was out again so we were back swimming although the temperature of the water has dropped significantly! We partially put up this tent and put some walls around it and Parker and Bennett were busy for at least an hour or more playing which is always good for mom!