Grandma and Grandpa visit

Last week, Grandma and Grandpa came to visit.

We had a lot of fun playing lots of games, reading lots of books, making S'mores, and visiting Frankenmuth.

Beth, Sophie and Lillie had their picture taken with this sign. We ate lunch at the Bavarian Inn, a German-American Restaurant. While at lunch we were entertained by a guy in lederhosen playing an accordion. When he walked into another section of the restaurant, Sophie asked "where is the music man." After lunch we went into the gift shop and bought Sophie her own accordion. This was special since her Great-Grandfather played the accordion.

After lunch, we did some Christmas shopping at Bronner's and Back to School shopping at the outlet mall.

Lillie had a mini recital at Mrs. Lawrence's (piano teacher) house as part of her twinkle graduation party.  Lillie made it through the first part of her suzuki book. She had to play 4 different songs from memory including "twinkle little star" and the variations.

We went fishing and Sophie caught her first fish and she caught one more.  She was scared of the fish, when it would jump about.

Lillie caught 3 fish. She also caught the biggest fish of the day.

We had a great week and we can't wait until we see them again.

Tapping out the Summer

The summer is winding down and we enjoying the last few days of it.  Two weeks ago, Lillie was the Magician's Assistant at the Library event.  After the Library event, we went to the mall and Lillie was officially tall enough to ride the carousel by herself.

Last week, Lillie started her Tap/Gymnastics class.

This last weekend, we went to Frankenmuth, Michigan.  We stayed overnight at a hotel with a water park.  By the end of the day, Lillie's favorite water attraction was the 3 story tubing water slide.  We did some shopping at the outlet mall and at Bronner's Christmas store.  It was a Christmas store, the size of a grocery store.  We only had an hour available to shop at Bronner's and we didn't see everything.  

The next morning, we saw Zehnder (the hotel and water park mascot).  Lillie was excited to see him, but not Sophie.  She still hates life size mascots.