Wasing the car!

On Sunday Tom actually got home from work early. Oh wait, I should back up...Tom has been working 7 days a week until about 10 PM. It's been crazy. He has these cases going on that have been bringing more mail than the Post Office can even handle. So anyway, back to my story...he came home early on Sunday (around 1PM) and the kids and Daniela and I were outside. Tom went inside with Joseph. I told Daniela we could wash Tom's car and she was so excited. We had a blast as a family to boot.

Daniela had asked the girl that lives across the street (Middle, if you will) to come over to play (Daniela just loves her) and she helped us wash the car. I feel terrible because I think her parents thing we invite her over just to do work. Last time she came over to play, she helped me remove a dead bush. She is a work-a-holic!

Joseph

Just because it isn't all about Daniela I am writing this post in Joseph's name. I realized that most of my posts lately have revolved around her.
So here are some pictures of just him and a video of the 2 of them.

I just thought this picture looked so funny:
We are moving a lot of toys around in the house (super exciting post about that later) and I was busy and Joseph was quiet. I walked into the kitchen and this was what he was doing. If you visit my blog around Christmas last year you will see that we had a good time where Diego was his best friend.

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Swimming

The Sunday that my sister and her family were here we decided to go to the pool. It is this great pool one town up from ours and it has a gated kiddie area that is like a water park. There is also huge slides to go down as body slides or with tubes. Poor Daniela wanted to go down the big slides so badly but she wasn't tall enough. They said she could take a swimming test and if she passed she could go down but really...she isn't that good! haha!

It was so great being there. It wasn't crowded. Swimming came back to Daniela perfectly and the kids had a blast.

Since they were leaving the next day we decided to go out to dinner. We hit Buck Mulligan's then fed the ducks at the duck park. It was lots of fun!

In the pictures below you will see a picture of Daniela crying. Hysterical crying. My sister asked her to put her drink down for the picture and clearly, the over tired Daniela did not want to.

That lump of black is Hailey hiding under a sweater. She was grumpy too! Actually all the kids were except for Joseph!

Tom's birthday

Tom's birthday is July 3rd. So this year, since everyone was off from work, we decided to have a BBQ on Friday. It was so much fun!
Everyone came over around 3PM and we partied until 1AM. It was casual, we ate, we drank and we played games.

Haha, I am so funny!

Joseph helping Daddy!

Joseph making a mess!Tom getting a present...Hailey sitting in the baby swing!Aunt Gee Gee and JosephRyan, Joseph and JackMe, Daniela and Tom
Allie, Daniela and Jack

Hailey, Daniela and Jack, all bundled up!

4th of July parade

So for the first time we went to the parade here in town on the 4th. It was pretty fun. But I have been meaning to ask this for a while now. When did it start that they hand out candy at parades. It happens at all the parades I have ever been to here in Ohio but I have never seen it before I came to Ohio. It's strange. Anyway, just curious what this is all about.
Here are some pictures from the parade...it was fun!

outside play

My beaten up kid

Daniela had quite a few accidents last week. At her birthday party she got scratched above her lip. Then at camp she got kicked in the face and split her lip and scratched under her chin. Then, totally by accident, her sitter went to pick her up and scratched her under the chin again. I took some pictures because I felt so bad for her.