the education of henry

Independence Day

2014-07-20

This post covers June 30th through July 6th.

We had a very busy week and I have a lot of pictures to share.

This week Mommy made some cupcakes, and Daddy and I ate one for breakfast. It was more of a breakfast dessert, since we ate our regular breakfast first.

Cupcake breakfast.

And Daddy made me a new train table while I was away with Mommy. It is super cool and I can run all three of my trains now, since we have motors for all of them now, too.

Train table.

Oh, and Mommy's garden is still trying to take over the whole backyard.

Garden.

Then we went to Great-grandpa Les and Great-grandma Muriel's house to see everyone who was there to celebrate the holiday.

Grandpa Kevin, Gail, Bruce, and Josh.

Bruce.

Freya.

Me and Josh playing with the DUPLO train.

Me, Josh, and Freya.

Josh, Kara, me, Freya, Tyler, and Daddy.

Freya.

Bruce on the banjo, with Gail, Julia, Freya, and Tyler.

Me and Mommy.

Me and Daddy.

Freya.

Muriel, Nancy, Julia, Tyler.

Freya and GG.

Great-grandpa Les.

Kara, GG, and Freya.

Josh and Freya.

Sarah and Kelsey.

Kaiden.

Me and Kaiden.

Jenny and Julia.

Tyler, Kaiden, and GG.

After that full day, we got up the next morning and went to the lake to see the other side of Mommy's family. We spent a lot of time outside and I got to try a few new things, as you'll see below.

Cap'n Henry, driving the boat.

Me and Mommy on the boat.

Me with Ross and Mike.

Great-grandma Joan and Great-grandpa Eldon.

Mike dozing.

Freya dozing.

In the lake.

Playing with Lila in the sandbox - this is where I spent most of the day...

Close-up!

No more pictures, please.

Back in the boat.

We spent the night at Great-grandma Joan and Great-grandpa Eldon's. No fireworks, since I was asleep, and also because a storm came in just as it got dark (I missed that, too). But that was okay, since I'm not really big on explosions.

The next day we went back out to the lake for a while, but after we had a look at Ross and Mike's motorcycles and the garden. No boat this time, but I got to drive Jacob's tractor.

On Mike's motorcycle.

This one belongs to Ross.

Picking peas with Mommy.

Walking with Ross.

Liza and Jacob.

Riding Jacob's tractor.

Hitching up the wagon.

Great-grandma Joan.

Me and Daddy in the weeds.

Sydney.

Driving again!

Uh-oh...Jacob wants a turn.

Jacob on his tractor.

In the sandbox.

Fishing with Mommy.

Look at the boats, Mommy.

And before we left Mommy put some new flowers out for Grandpa Joe.

And I think we can all agree that was a lot for one week in the life of a little boy. Thanks for reading. Take care!