I had been buying corn a lot at the stand on my way home from work, and I was in the kitchen husking some when Sarah kept saying "Hup ew!" At first, I couldn't figure it out, then I realized she was saying "help you!" So I gave her an ear of corn, and she had a good time husking it. She was very picky about getting all of the silk out!
The hotel where we stayed had a pond with ducks outside of it. The kids loved to go look at them every morning. Sarah was saying "du" in this picture. 
Busch Gardens just opened a new section that features Sesame Street characters. There were only a few rides that Sarah could go on and it was so hot anyway that the kids just wanted to do the water stuff. At this waterpark, the characters come out every hour for a show. Sarah enjoyed watching them. Cody was just annoyed that they turned the water off during the show!
At Water Country, Cody got to ride almost all of the slides. Sarah went on a couple different ones, but mostly enjoyed the kiddie area.
Cody also enjoyed all of the wildlife at the park. He is definitely his father's son!
I took the kids to get their pictures done today. When the lady asked me what the occasion was, I said "Cute sundresses." Sarah wouldn't smile for any of the pictures of them together and Cody smiled ridiculously hugely in most of his pics, but we got a couple anyway. Maybe in the fall, they will behave better!
We went to my cousins house to watch the parade again this year. It poured down rain the whole time we were driving there, then it seemed like the sun might take over about a half an hour before the parade. Just as it started, though, the storm let loose! So, the parade was mostly firetrucks, but the kids had fun. Sarah tried to hold all of her candy when she picked it up, she screamed if I put it in a bag for her. Cody picked up a bunch of tootsie rolls then spent the rest of the time on the porch eating them. Sarah and my cousins boy Sam were playing ring around the rosie. It was so cute that they wanted to keep holding hands!
Last weekend, the girls came to stay at Grandma's house for the weekend, so we went up to hang out with them. We went to a couple different parks, and I had the kids go to the flowers so I could get some pics. Of course they didn't want to sit all together for a picture, but we had fun. They all loved running through the tunnel the most.
Sarah kept pointing at the flowers and saying "pretty". She is growing up so fast!
What a bunch of monkeys
It's nice to have family to help you out!
Some new experiences are good, some not so good..... We have had such nice weather the last few weeks that we have been driving around with our sunroof open. The kids, especially Sarah, think it is wonderful. She waves her hands in the air the whole time! And, because the weather has been nice, we have been outside a lot and Cody got his very first bee sting. Of course, it was right on his cheek and his eye almost swelled shut. Poor guy!
We had a lot of fun celebrating the 4th all weekend. Can you tell that I have been taking the new Jessica Sprague class for framing and embellishing photos? Anyway, a friend of ours came over on his new motorcycle and Sarah loved it! Of course, both of my kids love anything that has a motor.
Sarah was posing inside Mike's new cooler in her 4th garb while we were getting ready to go watch fireworks.
Cody's favorite part was the gator ride, but being allowed to drink a pepsi probably came in a pretty close second!
After lunch, we went fishing at a friend's pond. We went there because the fishing is good, so we thought the kids might not get bored as quickly. Cody caught a little fish on his first cast, and then a few more and then he was pretty much done. Sarah got to reel one in with daddy, then she was done too. Oh well!
