Elephant Eggs

I don't know where I discovered this idea online, but I remember seeing how to make an Elephant Milk Carton Hat on somebody's crafty blog. Whoever it was, I'd like to go ahead and thank them right now cause this is Petey's new favorite thing. 

Petey has been running around with this new 'elefint' hat on for a couple of weeks now - complete with random elephant trumpets. It's too funny. To make this spiffy hat I basically took an old milk jug and cut off the top (leaving the handle attached) and then cut 'ears' out of the sides, turned it upside down and drew eyes on as well. Instant fun.

Egg update:

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned one of our hens had started laying eggs about every other day - well, since then things have really taken off. She started laying about every day and then our other hen began laying these smallish brown ones as well! 

We really appreciate our chickens going to the trouble of color-coordinating their eggs so we can easily tell which ones are the productive hens.

This picture shows the eggs we've collected over the past 4 days. Crazy. We're now getting about 1-2 FRESH eggs a day - that is unless Petey drops one on the way into the house cause he's so excited.

Beach Day!

So this is sorta late, but over the 4th of July weekend, we went down to Zuma Beach in Mailbu with our friends the Martins to have a beach day. We had such a blast and Becca's sister took about 300 pictures - which are all amazing - and I wanted to share a few here.

aww... The Happy Family

The peaceful citizens of Sandopolis had no idea there world was about to come crashing down until Godzilla Peter made his devastating move.

Mostly Peter just ran around the beach, playing in the sand with his bff Lauryn (which he pronounces "Lo-R-wren"). The water was a bit cold and after Trav tried to take him in, he decided enough with that and stuck to the sand for the rest of the day. Which he loved. Of course. 

I did love watching him run around saying "I so excited Mama!"

 These two have so much fun together.

After we all had gotten sand stuck basically EVERYWHERE, the kids had tried to eat the bubbles (numerous times), and the tide started to come in harder, we decided to call it a day and go with the Martin's to their Grandparent's pool about 30 min away.

Petey likes swimming in pools, but usually only the ones where he can touch. So you could say I was very surprised when we put him in this floaty thing and he immediately took off, swimming all over the big pool. 

My little man is growing up!

One more of the cheesers.