August

Some things we have been up to this month:

Alena:  She goes by the name "Annie Alena Jensen Mae."  Inspiration, of course, the movie "Annie."  She does a great job of singing the songs and reenacting scenes.  "Let's play Annie," is her constant refrain.  Sometimes she takes a break to play with Barbies.  Today I thought I heard the mailman, so I asked Alena to look out the window to see if the mailman was walking to Kory's house.  She replied, "It's just some people putting in a new kitchen."  That sounded strange, so I went to the window and saw there was a van with a picture of a kitchen on it.

Nora: Loves playing Ring Around the Rosie.  As soon as we all fall down she is yelling at us to start again.  She still calls Daddy "Mama" and calls the cats "puppy."  She carries her stuffed puppy everywhere and every time she sees him she happily exclaims, "puppy!" 

 Everyone has a watering can to help Mommy water the flowers.  Nora watered the sidewalk.

 We call this the slide by slide.

Tooth number 7 is finally through on the bottom.  It is not easy to spot. 

Alena and Nora enjoy some splashing while washing their hands in a bucket.  This was due to Alena making a cake with flowers, basil, and mud.

Lake Superior, Augus 2012

The North Shore

Last week we went to the north shore of Lake Superior with the whole Ossman crew.  Alena's highlight: eating s'mores every night at the campfire.  We also swam, biked, kayaked, hiked by a waterfall, ate wild raspberries, and threw a lot of rocks into the lake.  Alena and Lily somehow managed to put together matching outfits everyday (and every night.)  Nora was too little to do everything that the big kids did, but she did enjoy trying to eat rocks.  And she was even included in a game of tag with the cousins and two other kids staying next door!
 

Two of our condo neighbors witnessed Ben setting up the timer on the camera and took pity on us.  I think Alena had a little more fun than it looks. 

Come on, Alena.