Union County Fair

Last night we went to the Union County Fair. Evan loved seeing the animals. Here he is meeting the horses:

Look Mom, cows!

He also took his first ride on a carrousel. He loved it!

COSI workshop

Last Monday Evan went to a water workshop at COSI. His friend Caden was there too. The boys got to play in bubbles, moon sand, pools, and with colored ice cubes. They had a lot of fun!

Zoo with Daddy

Last Friday we took another trip to the zoo. We went inside Habitat Hollow for the first time. This is a really neat interactive exhibit where the kids get to crawl through tunnels and trees and see where animals live.

Evan liked brushing the goats again, but we had to watch him closely because he was trying to lay on them and dive over them like he does with the dog next door.

We also had a good time looking at the gorillas.

Water!

On Monday we had a major water leak in the basement. I was luckily home when the pipe broke and was able to figure out how to turn the water off. Unfortunately I didn't know there was a leak for about 15 minutes so there was already quite a bit of water in the basement. Luckily it only made it to about 5 of the carpet tiles in the finished part of the basement and didn't ruin any dry wall. AND I got Evan's scrapbook out before it got too damaged- we just moved my scrapbook table to the basement about a week ago and it was in direct line of water! Overall we were very lucky to not have more damage. Both the plumer and insurance agent told us they have had horror stories of this happening to people when they were on vacation and having a whole basement full of water.

The contents of the storage part of our basement moved into the finished part to dry.

The fixed pipe that sprayed water all over the place. Check your pipe- ours was corroded because they mixed a stainless steal and copper pipe together.

Some of the water on the ground, it had already gone down a lot at this point. When I got down there we had about 1-2 inches of water.

West Virginia

This past weekend we went to Morgantown to visit Marcie and Bill and got to see Katie and Taylor too. I didn't take very many pictures....I guess having too much fun! On Saturday morning the guys watched Evan while the girls went to the spa. It was great to see everyone! On Saturday night they had a lot of people over for Bill's Birthday and there were a lot of kids for Evan to play with.

Nature Walks

We've taken Evan on a couple of nature walks this summer. He loves to run down the path and bend down and look at the leaves and stones. He also likes to pick up sticks and carry them with him.

We ended our walk with a picnic dinner.

COSI

I took Evan to Cosi again a few weeks ago and what a difference it makes now that he can walk! He was all over the play room! We also sat on a camel in the Egypt exhibit.