Happy Birthday, Hadassah!

We pulled out Dassah's little pool and went swimming with a friend.  Obi is not sure he wants to get into the cold water.

"I have a hat!"

Sleeping peacefully

May 17, there was a fun day at Mike's work.  They had hotdogs and hamburgers and cotton candy and snow cones.  Dassah didn't want to try the cotton candy.  It must have looked too much like pink cotton.

"Look at my snow cone!"

Ride 'em, cowgirl!

Playing in the water on the slip 'n slide.

Going down the large inflatable slide.

Obi got to check out the inflatable slide a little, too.

This angle makes it look like he's about to fall off.

Mike decided to de-ice the freezer.  It didn't take too long before he had a little helper.

Swimming!  I've decided Dassah's swimsuit from the past few years is too small for her.

Comparing footprints.  Both my children are flat-footed like their daddy.

Dassah decided to decorate her face.

A castle made with Mommy's help.

Fresh out of a bath with "matching" froggy pajamas!

My sweet girl.

My smiley boy

The weekend before Memorial Day, we went down to Aunt Becky's house to see cousins and celebrate Dassah and Isaiah's birthdays.
 

The babies together.

Stickers!

Birthday kids!

Isaiah digs in while Dassah starts off by licking off the icing.

Yummy!

Cousins have a "pet" toad!

On Memorial Day, we went out to Agate Fossil Beds National Park.
 

Right outside the visitor center, there are a couple teepees.

Ready to go on a walk.

The boardwalk over a marshy area/creek.  Right at the end of this boardwalk, we came across a rattlesnake.

We saw a couple horned lizards on our walk.

And another snake.  This one is a bull snake.  It crossed the path in front of us.

We posed for a picture in front of the fossils in the visitor center.  Dassah kept calling them "dragons".

On the way home from Agate, we saw a tornado.  It's about in the center of this picture.  We were about 15-20 miles away from it.

We also saw some more wild life on our way home.

Once we got home, we had invited some of Dassah's friends over to celebrate her birthday, so we got ready for that.

Presents!

A dish set!

Playing the piano with Obi.

 Mike was on call with his work on Dassah's actual birthday, and it ended up he wasn't around for much of it. We had decided some time before that we wanted to raise chickens, so on June 1st, the kids and I picked up 8 chickens from our across the street neighbor.  There are 2 blacks, 2 barred, 2 speckled, a brown, and a buff.  Dassah promptly claimed them as her chickens.

Dassah is so excited to have chickens.

Holding her chicken.

Obi liked the chickens too.

We're working on turning our shed into a chicken coop, but until then, we have a temporary enclosure.

Out of curiosity, I asked Dassah what their names were. I don't think she understood the naming process and just strung sounds together, but here are some of the names she came up with:

Daboo, Popkin, Toople, Noma, Snoomit, Rockin, Snobeki, Meeki, Atukik, Stompook, Tukkik, Stembock, Telpoke, Kapoke, Shoo, Lou

Yes, there are more names than chickens. I could point to a chicken 5 times in a row and she would give five different names.

It turns out that we have 6 roosters and only 2 hens.  One of the roosters I have decided to name Soup.  He's the meanest and will probably be the first to end up in the soup pot.

 

New swim clothes!  They're a size big so they should hopefully last through next year, too.

Testing the water.  "Do I want to get in?"

I love his smile!

Dassah was playing with the spay nozzle on the water hose.  I liked the effect of her silhouetted behind the golden drops of water, but the camera didn't capture it quite the same.

A tea party!

We visited someone's house.  Obi was excited he could see out the screen door.

"Wait a minute!  I didn't want to fall down inside!"

"Okay, I'm ready to go swimming now!"

Eating big people food.  Mmm spaghetti squash!