We made it on a four mile hike, but ended up killing Joe’s neck. He can hardly move it today. The hike was fun, we went to Laurel Ridge around Lake Lanier and down by the Chattahoochee. The Chattahoochee part resulted in watching this. It took over four hours, but that included a stop for lunch and lots of exploring. Great weather. I miss hiking, but I think it’s not going to happen for many years. It’s not the most toddler friendly to go on hikes much longer than a mile. Peter still had a lot of fun.

There is almost too much fun things to do around here. The pool for our complex opened last week and it’s lots of fun to be able to walk over and go swimming whenever we want. I’m always finding new parks to go visit: there seems to be an unlimited number of parks 20 minutes from our house. At one park we visited three different playgrounds in it on the same visit and there were still more!

I have really awesome kids. I was thinking about terrible twos and tantrums, and Peter is far more enjoyable than terrible. Curtis has been sleeping through the night for a while and has started smiling more.

Sometimes to get Peter off the computer I will take whatever he is doing and move it from the screen to real life. He was watching a clip about a dump truck over and over. I couldn’t think of a good replacement for dirt, but I did need to cook dinner. We cut veggies and used the dump truck to transport them to the dish. A sink full of soap and toys is also quite a bit of fun, although he’s not too interested when I actually need to clean some. We also made simple but cute paper bag puppets that don’t decapitate the animal when used.

We had a great time visiting my sister-in-law over memorial day weekend. Peter was running around with huge smiles on; he loved playing with his cousins. The good photos in the set are from Becki, she’s an excellent photographer and one of the best parts of visiting her is the photos we come home with.

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