Growing

I weighed and measured the kids today, at home, so of course it's not 100% accurate, but close enough for me.
Titus is 3 1/2 years old, weighs 36 pounds and is 3 feet 4 inches tall.  That puts him in the 71st and 73 percentiles on the growth charts.
Isabele is 21 months old, weights 28 pounds and is 2 feet 10 inches tall.  That puts her in the 79th percentile for height and weight.

Isabele is talking up a storm now.  She is soaking up vocabulary like a sponge.

Titus is getting over his hesitancy in the lake.  He actually played in the lake at my mom's yesterday, standing on the bottom in water up to mid abdomen, for a while and enjoyed himself.  (Sometimes it helps to be "pushed" by the performance of your sister).  Isabele is a fish that would happily drown.  She ends up crying because we won't let her walk totally independently.  She still falls down in the water and is too buoyant to get her feet stuck back on the ground.

Fevers and 100 degree Weather

Isabele has been throwing up today - has a bit of a fever too.  And the poor girl had to pick today to be too hot.  It's 99 degrees outside at my house right now - 90 degrees inside.  She's taken 2 naps in the cool basement.  She's had 2 baths in cool water for probably a total of an hour soaking and playing.  And now she's eating ice.  She keeps begging for water and to eat.  Unfortunately at 21 months she doesn't understand why I'm not letting her eat or drink freely.
Titus is benefiting from Isabele being sick.  He's going on over a total of an hour of playing with a boat in the bathtub (he's also on bath number 2 for the day).
I'm hoping Isabele keeps her ice down so she can have a bit more to eat this evening in hopes of getting her to sleep well tonight.

Pictures of my stuff from the 2010 Kosciusko County Fair

The kids decided to help me with the photos.  Not sure it was much help, but they are kind of cute (and dirty).

FYI

I've finally added those delinquent photos.  All the way back to "Bikeride to Bia's" if you are interested in some cute pictures of my kids being kids.

Brian and the Pitts

Brian finished his 5 hours of dual in the Pitts S2B earlier this week.  He flew the Pitts S1S for the first time yesterday.  He did a total of 2.5 hrs and 8 landings yesterday.  5 landings and about 45 minutes yesterday morning and then last evening he flew it down to Kokomo to practice the Primary Aerobatic Routine in the box at the Kokomo Airport.  The pictures are from when he went down to Kokomo.

Isabele's Daisy Halo

I made this Daisy Halo for Isabele on July 7th.  She left it on for about 30 minutes.  Luckily I got some good pictures before she decided she was tired of it.

And a pretty bouquet.

Kosciusko County Fair

On a whim, at the last minute I decided to enter some of my handiwork at the local fair, in the Open Class.  I entered a dress with pinafore I made earlier this summer for Isabele, a Irish Lace Scarf that I knitted during this past winter and a little smocked bishop style dress that I made late last summer for Isabele.  I didn't think I'd place or win anything.  I was wrong.  I got a First Prize (blue ribbon) on each of my entries and the Daisy Dress with Pinafore also won Grand Champion (a purple ribbon).  I'll be sure to photograph these items when I bring them home on Monday - that way I'll have a permanent example (as I'm sure that at least the dresses will be well worn and passed on to my sister for her kids).

Here is the Daisy dress with the blue pinafore option.  The blue one was dirty, so the yellow one went to the fair. 

If you know anyone who does any needlecraft, it would be great to see some more entries in the Open Class at the fair next year.  It's free to enter.

Rootbeers

We took Titus to ride on the mountain bike trails at the Boy's Club yesterday.  He has figured out how to ride in the grass and has been asking about the Boy's Club.  Brian and I didn't figure he would get very far, but decided it would be okay for him to try it.  He did really well for his first time.  He needed help going up the hills and over the roots.  He didn't really understand and started calling the roots "rootbeers".  He made it almost back to the big bridge that goes over Cherry Creek.  Brian suggested that next time we have him ride on the dirt paths in the field and maybe ride his bike back the gravel "road" to the staging area field and let him practice his off-road skills there.

The Toledo Zoo

We had a nice time at the Toldeo Zoo last week.  I didn't get many pictures as it was really busy, really, really hot, and the kids were in the stroller much of the time.  The pictures I did get are still on the computer and awaiting the desktop computer to be fixed so I can download them and then put them on the blog.  The cement "stream" that the kids could play in was a huge it.  Titus really like the giraffes and the train ride we took on the second day.  It was so hot that the petting area was closed.  Maybe next time.

 Checking out the lion statues.

The entrance to the kid area.

Isabele the elephant.

Titus and the bird.

Here is the "stream".  What a wonderful place to put feet when it's 100 degrees at the zoo!

 The kids could move rocks and a few logs around to change how the water flows.  Titus and Isabele didn't understand that, but they sure understood that it was cooler in the water than out of the water.

Isabele is in the nest and Titus is in the egg.

The Next Adventure

Brian has to go to Flight Safety in Toledo for work this coming weeek.  We are going to tag along.  The plan is to leave Monday morning and head to the Toledo Zoo.  The hotel Brian is staying at has an indoor "splash park" that we think the kids will really enjoy.  As we are not sure how the kids are going to do sleeping in a hotel and Brian has to be able to sleep as he has class Tues, Wed, and Thurs all day, the kids and I are going to stay Monday night, and then, depending on how things go, either return to Warsaw on Tuesday afternoon / evening, or stay till Wed or maybe even Thursday and return with Brian Thursday evening.  I'll try to take lots of pictures and will get them posted eventually.

Fireworks

We let the kids stay up really late to watch the fireworks at Winona Lake last night.  They did really well.  They are in bed and asleep by 8PM.  Fireworks didn't start until 10PM.  They both had a short nap in the afternoon.  We rode bikes (kids in the bugger) over to my mother's to watch the show on the deck.  It was fun!!  Isabele made it through about 1/2 of the show before passing out on my lap.  Titus stayed awake, watching the flashes and listening to the booms, sitting on Grandpa Hoover's lap.  Titus fell asleep in the bugger on the way home.  They were both so tired that they stayed asleep as Brian and I carried them into the house at 11PM and deposited them in their beds.  I'm so glad that they just went to sleep and stayed that way.  Titus got up a little after 6AM (too early for the amount of sleep he got, but I'm sure he'll fall asleep on a bikeride today).  Isabele slept until almost 9AM!!!