Really Busy!

Since I haven't written anything in about a week and half, it probably looks like we haven't been doing anything, but we've actually been really busy. Adam is loving preschool, and so am I. I was able to go grocery shopping much more smoothly today....I wasn't chasing Adam around the store :-). I also love the fact that he is doing so many different things at school. He keeps telling me that he's not making any friends, but I find that really hard to believe from my Adam. He can usually make friends with anyone! Anyway, we've been busy with AWANA starting at church and birthday parties and going to the zoo. Would you believe I didn't take a single picture when we went to the zoo on Sat. I brought my camera, but I didn't feel like pulling it out. I guess when you have a zoo membership, it's old hat...I do have tons of zoo pictures already this year. I guess you can only scrapbook so many animal pages.

Well, I'm going to add a couple of random pictures from the last couple of weeks. The first picture is a picture of the boys eating raisins. It was funny how I got the picture...they were both sitting on the chair and I pulled out my camera. Of course, Adam then decides to get off. So, I told him that it was fine, because I was going to take pictures of just Andrew (and started doing so). Of course, he then decided to get back up :-). The second picture is of Andrew standing on the coffee table. He has been climbing on EVERYTHING..the couch, the kitchen table, the coffee table. It was so cute when he got up on the coffee table and started dancing. I had to take a picture before I told him, "No" and got him down :-).

1st Day of Preschool

Today was Adam's first day of preschool. He was soooo excited (and so was I). Today was a shortened day where he and I both went in for just an hour. He'll go again on Tuesday for a shortened hour by himself, and then he's going to start at his regular schedule.

As soon as he woke up (at 7:15), he was asking if it was time to go to school yet. I said we had to wait for John and his mom to come over to watch Andrew, and he kept asking if they were there yet. I really like his teachers and the other parents seem nice. Adam already made friends with a little girl while playing. He was so cute when they lined up to go to the play area. He put his hands behind his back, like they've taught him in his class at church. They asked each of the kids to draw a self-portrait, and Adam drew a little stick figure (even though at home, I have a hard time getting him to draw anything!).

I took some pictures, but because he was excited, he was easily distracted (which means he wouldn't look at me). I blurred some of the details in the pictures for privacy.

More Camping Pictures

One of the days that we were camping, we visited another state park that had an "Old Growth" forest - that means that it wasn't cut down during the logging in the late 1800's/early 1900's. When we arrived at the visitor center, there was a guided tour going out in a couple of minutes, so we joined the group. The entire path through this section of the forest was paved to allow for wheelchairs, but it was perfect for the stroller, too. It was really neat to see the old forest and the way the state would have looked without all the logging. Plus, some of the trees were several hundred years old...it was neat to imagine that the tree was around before the U.S. became a country.

There was a logging museum back in the woods that was built by the CCC during the Depression that was very interesting. I had never really thought about the effects of logging in the state. Obviously, we need wood, but they didn't consider the effects of cutting down all the trees in an area. To their credit, they did think that the areas where they logged would then be converted to farmland.

Anyway, we loved this state park...we had lunch down by the playground and drove through the campground. We are planning on camping there next year! I have tons of pictures from this day, so I think I'll just add the forest and logging camp pictures and save the playground pictures for later!
A church in the middle of the "Old Growth" forest

The logging museum. This was a wheel that was invented so they could pull the logs year-round.