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The weather has been so nice that we made our first trip to Paulus Orchards a bit early this year. We picked Jonathon, Gala and Cortland apples. The Cortlands were reserved for pie 🙂
The girls had fun, but Molly was a bit terrified of the yellow jackets that were hanging out in the orchard around the trees and fallen apples. She was stung a few weeks back, and she’s been really leary of them ever since.
The trees had been pretty well picked over when we got there, so it was hard for the girls to find many apples to pick. Megan loved picking from up on her Daddy’s shoulders.
I ordered these glow in the dark, skeleton jammies for the girls and they came today. They had to put them on immediately and wore them to bed tonight. They both thought they were the coolest thing. I have a feeling I’m going to get my money’s worth out of these things!
On a side note, where did my babies go? Especially when I look at Molly in this picture, I see a big girl. NO baby. Not even a hint. I can’t believe she’ll be 4 next month. The time has flown.
My baby started first grade this year! Megan is growing up so fast, and turning into a young lady before our eyes. After going half-days last year, she has been looking forward to going all day long for quite a while. Her teacher’s name is Mrs. Brengel. She wore a special apple dress and bracelet on the first day. On the way home, she asked her daddy when the next summer vacation starts. I’m afraid it might be a long year!
We went to Aunt Lori and Uncle Ken’s house to celebrate Nana Caroccia’s birthday. While we were there, Megan had a chance to fish in the pond. Uncle Ken stocked the pond after he made it, so there are a lot of fish in there. And he goes out to the dock to feed them every night, so that was the “hot spot” for catching them.
Megan’s first actual catch was this minnow. She was getting frustrated and just dangled her worm into a pool of minnows. This one bit on and she pulled it out. It was only about 2 inches long, but she was thrilled.
Eventually she caught a bigger fish. This one was 4 or 5 inches long. The kids had a great time. William caught several really big (like 10-12 inches long) ones and they all caught a handful of panfish. Megan fed this one to one of the cats – that made her day.
Here’s William and Megan sitting on the dock together. They had fun hanging out. This is one of the rare moments when they were both still and I wasn’t worried about one of the kids hooking someone!
And a shot of the “birthday girl”. It was Nana’s 78th birthday. We really enjoyed being there to celebrate with her.
Megan took the plunge this weekend. She decided to give swimming without water wings a try. She took them of and held onto the edge, then said, “Hey Grandpa, watch this!” She was going to try to float, but we convinced her to try to swim instead. Once she realized she could she would not stop! She was swimming the length of the pool, on her own, by the end of the day.
Here she comes!
and there she goes. She was so proud of herself and we were very proud of her too. I think she could have done it long ago, but just needed to work up the courage.
And a shot of Molly just because. She still swims with her water wings for now, but I bet she’ll give them up next summer. She’s a daredevil and doesn’t like to be left behind by her big sister.
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