We found Buddy again last night. Inga was excited to see him but not as excited about holding him this time. Enjoy the videos!
Cleaning Out the Guest Room
Since I was pregnant when we moved into this house I never really got a chance to organize our basement bedroom. It had been slightly full of boxes until my parents decided they should clean out their attic, shed, garage, second attic, and so on. They called and said they were going to come by to drop off my boxes. I was thinking it would be a couple of boxes. Nope! Their van, with the seats taken out, was filled with boxes. Our basement bedroom then became FILLED with items from my past. There was literally no floor space left in the room after they dropped it all off. I have slowly been making my way through everything they thought was worth saving...my favorites being the French papers from high school where I scored a D+ and an F. Those are always grades you want to keep, right?! Anyway, today I finally decided today was the day! Jason played with the girls all day and I cleaned and organized that room. It's not perfect yet but there are only a couple more boxes to go through. The rest will be put on a garage sale. I'm so excited to see that the room actually looks like a room again! It's not a storage garage anymore! While I was in my frantic cleaning and organizing mode, Jason sent Inga my way in a couple treasures she found while I was tossing.
We will be turning that room into a playroom once we are all done organizing. It will then be our goal to keep most of the toys that now clutter the rest of the house contained to one room. It's going to work, right?
Patty Cake
Inga was playing patty cake with Elsa and I was able to get to the camera in time to get it on video. I apologize for the bad lighting! Inga also tries to get Elsa to dance at the end.
Summer Playgroup
We started a playgroup this summer of mainly teachers and their children. We have one non-teacher in the group but she only works part-time so I invited her to join us. There are 8 moms, 7 toddlers, and 7 babies in the group. The babies were all born between the end of January and the beginning of June. Three babies were in May alone! One mom is due in Spetember with her second. We get together on Tuesday mornings and the kids all love it. We will be sad when school starts again and play group will be no more! I have stolen a couple pictures from Jaclyn and Michele. I hope to get more pictures during playgroup soon! These two pictures are of Grace, Shelby, and Inga sitting in Grace's toy bins.
Elsa and Her Mobile
We have discovered that Elsa LOVES her mobile. She gets so excited when she hears the music and looks up to see all the sea animals rotating above her head! Inga just stared at it when she was younger. You'll see how excited Elsa gets about it!
Genova Picnic
Unfortunately I wasn't as quick as Jaclyn with the camera so I didn't get any pictures of Grace with Inga. They had a great time playing together, though! Here are a few of Inga running around the lodge. While we were there, Inga was using her hot dog bun as a phone. Apparently you can communicate with just about anything!
After the picnic, we stopped by the entrance to see the reindeer. They pretty much ran away right as we got to the fence. Inga was happy to see them, though. She probably would have been more excited if she wasn't so worn out from playing so hard! 
Great-Uncle Danny & Great-Aunt Judi
Elsa was able to meet her Great-Uncle Danny & Great-Aunt Judi this week. They stopped in for a short visit to Cedar Rapids so we didn't have a chance to get many pictures. We did, however, get this one of Danny holding Elsa for the first time. She was very content in his arms!
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