Thailand 2012

I finally finished the photo book for our trip to Thailand. Approximately, 1,500 pictures have been compiled into 60 pages.

Thailand 2012

Click on the link above to see the album.

Hot Cold Tickle Water

We went camping for the first time last spring. When we got to the restroom,I realized we have a problem. How is Reese going to get a bath. I finally broke it to her and told her she would have to take a shower. We found one stall, the handicap one that had a shower head that came off the wall. We always used that one, and she never forgot to tell me that she wanted, "hot cold tickle water". We survived another camping trip, and now I hear it when she showers at home also.

Our Quest to Visit National Historic Sites

Reese's Timeline

We were assigned as a home assignment to make a timeline so that Reese can understand change over time.  Here is what she is turning in tomorrow...

I helped her come up with the events; she told me the wording.

When I was a baby, I stayed with my PaPa and YaiYai at the flower shop and my mommy, my daddy, and Riley at home.

When I was 2, I went to Maui, Hawaii for Christmas with my mommy, my daddy, and my brother Riley to visit my auntie, my uncle, and cousins.

When I was 4, I went camping at Disney World and saw Woody, Jessie, and Buzz Lightyear.

Now, I am 5 and I go to Ridgewood and met my friends Cole and Sophie in Mrs. Rieman's class.

The last one was the hardest to come up with because she has only been five for a month.

Can you take me?

Almost everyday I hear the words, "Can you take me ...?"  Riley loves to read and the more that he reads; the more places he wants to go.  Right now, his interest is in the Civil War so most of the places that he wants to go have to do with that.  We visited Appomattox Court House, VA last year on the way to camping on the bay.  He got to go to Washington DC for a day and that was not nearly enough time for him.

The list of places he want to go just keeps growing, but tops on the list are: Springfield, IL, Boston, MA and surrounding areas, Lexington and Concord, Washington DC to see the inside of Ford's Theatre, back to Portland, ME to go to the Children's Museum, Legoland Discovery Center in Chicago, Walt Disney World again, Legoland Amusement Park, and the National Parks.

At Appomattox Court House Riley participated in the National Parks Services (NPS) Junior Ranger Program.  Upon completion of the program, he received a Junior Ranger Badge.  We also worked on and received the badge from James A. Garfield's House in Mentor, OH.  Riley is also a Web Ranger and has completed many of the programs on that website.  He would like to continue to work on Junior Ranger badges for the National Parks and received the trading cards that NPS has published for the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

Boy, was he disappointed when I told him that we probably would not be leaving the state for the rest of the year!