Our little lady is 4!

Of course, Suzie had a great b-day today filled w/ presents, a cheeseburger and lots of love. Her trip to the dog park is on rain check cause of a rain delay.

opening gifts
Clyde opening his gifts (we don't want him feeling left out :)
enjoying their b-day goodies
Mmmm, McDonalds. Click here for a look back of Suzie's last four years.

fun with the fam

We had a full house this weekend. The folks were in town for an M's game and to celebrate Dad's b-day, and Luke & Logan spent a day/night with us while Jenni & Lars did the STP in one day (yikes). There's nothing Cal loves more than having a house full with some of his favorite people.

sharing some b-day pie with Pop

visiting the animals at Kelsey Creek Farm

checking out the "ba ba's" (sheep)

Cal's new love... which also caused a major meltdown in the toy aisle at Target when he had to part with it. yay for free slurpees!
ending the night with a campfire
Ian channeling his inner boy scout, stoking the fire with his "diamond blow"
showing off his new chair

The newest move

Not sure where he picked this one up but here's Cal's newest signature dance move. He started doing this a couple days ago and now busts it out every time he starts rockin'.

mr. independent

Cal's mastered eating with a fork, it's the spoon that we're still working on. Yet he insists to do it all by himself. This is the end result...

Little fish

Cal started swim lessons today and man, this kiddo sure does love the water. He was such a nut in the pool, so happy. They sang songs, learned how to blow bubbles, back float and kick.

blowing bubbles mastering the back float
learning the art of kicking

(click on the pics to make them bigger so they're easier to see)

water fun

After camping on Sunday we headed to Wenatchee and went to a water park with Jenni & Logan to catch a break from the ridiculously hot weather.

Cal thought the benches were fascinating, where he could watch the water from afar

We survived!

... our first camping adventure with Callahan. Last weekend was the annual Weber campout (Ian's mom's side of the fam). Cal was a little trooper and did all kinds of new things - first time sleeping in a tent, first time swimming in a lake, first time putting his head under water, first time getting extremely dirty, first big face oopsie (he's got the banged up nose to prove it), and even had three new teeth pop through. Unfortunately, we were more concerned with not melting away in the 100+ degree heat than taking pics so I don't have many from the weekend...

Cal & Gracie

Besides the lake, I think our tent was Cal's 2nd favorite thing about camping. He could play for hours in it.