Zoo Times, Again

A few weeks ago we invited the Dinsmore clan up for a trip to the zoo...

I think it's safe to say Oliver and Allison had a BLAST!

 This trip happened on the same day that I took Oliver to the Sit Still salon to get his hair cut...Daddy decided to give it a little trim but had issues making it "even"...

 

 Mild Stink Face.

 

 Papa Peter

 Little girls LOVE to hold Oliver's hand.

 The first time he ever went into the petting zoo

 I have many, many more pictures, but never have the time to edit them all...

New Arrival

Welcome to Danica Grace Dinsmore born Monday March 1st at 4:37pm after 3 pushes. Baby girl weighed in at 9lbs even and 20.25" long.

 Here is the banner I made for Danica's baby shower back in January...

 I still have a bunch of pictures from the shower and hope to get them up in the next couple of days..

First Father's Day

For Father's Day we traveled down to Salem to Pete and Ann's new house for a BBQ. They had just gotten the keys 9am that morning and were excited and anxious to get into their first house. Our morning started off pretty nice and slow, like a Sunday should. Oliver had woken up at 1:15 that morning and didn't got back to sleep until almost 4:30, so we needed the rest! Especially since he cried from 3:30 until he fell asleep. Oliver joined us in bed and Daddy got his present, a new hat!Daddy's new hat.

We took 99W down to Salem, through Dundee and Dayton, it made us about an hour late but was well worth it. The drive is so beautiful and once you pass through Dundee there is hardly any traffic. When we arrived, the BBQ was still being assembled so we got out the blankets and let the babies get re-acquainted and play. Allison had a new red wagon that she was getting pulled in and Oliver couldn't take his eyes off it! He eventually got his own turn and had blast being pulled around.

Oliver and Allison with Great Uncle/Grandpa Bob

Grampa

Peter

Graham's photo of the cloudless sky.

Oliver and Allison had one incident during lunch. They were off playing on blankets in the backyard when they started to quietly fight over one of Ollie's blocks. Oliver picked it up, Allison took, Oliver took it back and so on until Oliver took the block, put it in Allison's face and pushed her over! Allison of course started crying, Oliver looked at her, his lip came out, he through his face into the blanket and started crying too! I guess we have a sympathetic boy on our hands! Allison showed off her amazing walking abilities all day and her strength. Her new trick is to push her cage while she is inside and walk, pushing it about 4 feet or so. This day she did it while her Mommy and Oliver were inside too! Ann had to jump up and grab Oliver and walk along as Ally just kept on truckin'. We all got a pretty good laugh out of that.

After lunch, dessert and a lot of playtime outside we moved inside. Pete and Graham decided to pass the time by playing a little indoor Badmitton, while sitting in lawn chairs...

Graham only went over backwards 3 times! It was a very ammusing site to behold, 2 "grown" men sitting in chairs hitting a birdie back and forth. Allison came back downstairs for some more play time as she was not having a nap after maybe an hour of trying to get her to sleep and they played some more.

Allison 10 1/2 months.

We headed home at about 7:30 with a very tired little man who could barely hold his head up. As I predicted, he was out cold before we even turned off their street.

Once we got home Graham got to go out for a beer at the only Pub in town that carries Boddington's on tap and found his new favorite pub. All in all it was a good day.