Halfway up the stairs

We were playing adorably one morning. We brought bags and blocks and read books to our dolls.

 
 
 
 

Can you guess how it ended, though? That's right-- a thunk and a howl.

New arrival

What did we get our Daddy for Father's Day??
 
A shiny, brand new grill!! He spent 2 hot hours putting it together, but it works great.
 
 
Our Mama says that, no matter what our Dada says, this is not the new baby we have been expecting.

Wading pool

On these hot evenings, we enjoy spending an hour in our little pool. We don't fit as well as we did last year, but we still enjoy splashing and pouring.

 
 
 

Happy Father's Day, the results

We had a really happy, really goofy time with our Daddy on Father's Day.
 
 
 
 
Do you see the resemblance?

Crown Fountain

We took the bus to Millennium Park one hot Tuesday. We were underwhelmed by the gardens and the Bean, and they would not let us frolic on the great lawn. We were excited when we caught sight of all the kids playing in the fountain, but we were a little tenuous at first about diving in ourselves.
 

We got right over that tenuousness and had a great time!
 
 
 

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to our Daddy, who is the best Daddy.

Science and Industrious Tantruming

We made another trip to the Museum of Science and Industry a few weeks ago. We headed to the baby chicks as soon as we could.

Anna stood on our Daddy's leg to get eye-to-eye with the chicks.
 
They all hopped over to get eye-to-eye with her!
 
Julia had more trouble seeing, since our Mama is not as tall as our Dada.
 
We also checked out the new storm and weather exhibit. We fully participated in the "Make your own storm" area, although Mama says that tantruming does not count.
 

Summer helpers

We can be naughty monkeys while our Mama and Daddy are making dinner. It is the perfect opportunity for us to get stuff off the table, play with the remote, push buttons on the phone, or climb on the furniture.

Tired of hollering at us, our Mama put us to work. We are excellent corn shuckers!
 
 

Rainbow Cones

One evening our Mama announced we were going to go out for a treat. We had a car ride to get there, but we were thrilled to make our first trip to Rainbow Cone!

 
 
 
 
If you are keeping track, that's orange sherbet, pistachio, chocolate, Palmer House, and strawberry. We are big fans.

Picnic

We took a trip to Promontory Point for dinner and playing. Dinner was fine, but we had a great time with our big blue ball.

 
 
 
 

Southern barbecue

Mmmmm....ribs...

 
 
 

HL Hunley

When our Mama said we had to get used to trips like Fort Sumter, she meant that she and our Daddy are inordinately fond of historical minutiae. We were therefore not surprised when she planned an entire weekend around seeing the HL Hunley, the first submarine ever used in warfare.

Our enthusiasm was out of proportion to the reality of submarine warfare!
 

The exhibit was small-- it is housed, after all, in the conservation lab, and it's only open on weekends so that the scientists can study the submarine on the weekdays. For a small exhibit, though, there were lots of things for us to do!




There were two replicas that we climbed on and explored.
 
 
We're tiny history buffs in the making!