Playgrounds, Father's Day, and Ducks!

A few weekends ago Kaylee and I ventured out and found a couple of new places to play.  There is another elementary school pretty close to our house, only a 3 min drive.  Little to my surprise she headed straight for the climbing wall.  Why wouldn't a 2 year old think that's the most fun thing to play on.  By the time I caught up to her she was already climbing.

One the same block as the Elementary School was a little playground.  This playground was a bug magnet for some reason.  They were only harmless little black and orange bugs though.  Kaylee had fun following them around.

  Kaylee loves to play on her big girl bed.  Sometimes it's hard to find her.

Father's Day weekend Kaylee and I drove up to Sheboygan for the Freier Family Father's Day Fun Fest :)  We had a great time!  Kaylee did surprisingly well for the car ride without me in the back seat to keep her company.  I think this is mostly in part to her favorite movie, Toy Story 3.  It's the very first movie she'll actually sit and watch all the way through!  Well mostly sit anyway :)

Kaylee really loves playing with her cousins and talks about them all the time at home.  Lexi was putting together a standing cooler and Kaylee just jumped right in there to help her.  Although I'm not sure it was any help, Lexi still loved it.

 It was nice enough for us to play outside on Saturday.  Slightly chilly, but not too bad. 

Sunday was rainy all morning so the girls found fun things to do inside.

Lily was a great big sister to Kaylee and played house with her in the toy room.

Lily even played dress up with her.  I'm pretty sure Kaylee had at least 4 different outfits on within a half hour!

Here's Lily tucking Kaylee in to sleep after having changed her in to jammies.  I'm pretty sure those jammies were made for 9-12 month babies....

After the rain stopped and the sun came out we were able to play outside more.  Those girls got pretty silly!

They were pretending the porch was a jail and were asking us to 'please help'.  It was too funny.  I love Lily's 'please let me out of jail' face in this one :)

Here's what Kaylee and I made for Daddy for Father's Day :) 

This is my favorite thing that Kaylee made for Father's Day from her school!

Jesse got a lot of projects done on his Father's Day weekend off.  He got the old nasty sandbox all torn down and the new fire pit set up in it's place.

He built a bed frame for Kaylee's twin mattress to mimic a toddler bed so part of the sides would be taller to prevent tumbles.  It turned out really nice! 

Here Kaylee is checking out her new elevated bed.  The look in her eyes say, this is nice, but something is missing....

All my animals!

And don't forget the books!

Ok, so he didn't make the flowers bloom so nice, but it was a nice touch to come home too :)

This weekend was a very productive weekend too.  I finally got Kaylee's Giraffe growth chart hung up in her room.  I don't think she's grown much at all in a month so I'm still counting this as her 2 year line ;)

Even though it was a little rainy on Saturday, Kaylee and I ventured out to find the Great Eastern Iowa Duck Race.  There were over 16,000 ducks in the harbor area next to the Cedar River.  Unfortunately there was no current and no wind so the ducks went no where fast.  Good thing some folks came prepared with leaf blowers!  Once those ran out of gas people actually started hopping in the water and started pushing the ducks towards the finish line.

Kaylee came prepared with her rain jacket.  Thank you Target clearance :)

Kaylee, of course, was drawn to all of the doggies at the event. :)  Her favorite was a tiny Chihuahua doggie named Fearless

Jesse and I were able to put up a few more pictures around the house.  Here is our now tranquil dinning area.

I love this addition to Kaylee's butterfly wall.  I had this made from a vendor while I was in New York City with my gals.