Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there especially the one who lives with us. I just want to say a big thank you for all that you do for both me and Chance. 
Last weekend we drove up to Covington, LA about an hour from here to a wonderful little organic blueberry farm. I have never been to a u-pick farm and of course neither had Chance. When we first arrived we checked in, received our buckets and plastic cups (for water), were told which rows we could pick and off we went. Chance was a good picker for the first 30 minutes, he has definitely reached the 'I do it' stage even though he doesn't use those exact words. I told him to pick the blue ones, that the pink ones were not ripe yet and he said "no, mommy, no...pink." If I left him alone he would start picking blue 
ones, he just needed to make the decision to do it on his own. He helped pick for the first half hour then he would start wondering off through the rows of blueberry bushes, he was having a good time winding through the plants then he would come back to where I was sitting diligently picking blueberries with one little berry. He would proudly add his berry to the bucket and wonder off again. He was also a big help moving the buckets, as I would work my way to another bush he would pick up both of our buckets and move them down too, which was actually very helpful. One of the farm staff drove a golf cart carrying cold water in coolers drove between the rows
. Every time it came by Chance would grab his plastic cup and run over saying "water, water." Most of his water ended up on him rather than in him because after he had a few sips he liked to play with it but either way it cooled him down and he was having a good time. We arrived at 9am and by the time we left at 11am it was already very hot. By the end Chance had stopped running around and since his bucket only had an adult handful of berries in it so we poured his berries into my bucket and turne
d his bucket upside down to make a seat where he planted himself for the rest of the time.
ziplock bag in the freezer and a smaller ziplock bag in the fridge. I think its time to give some to the neighbors.
A little while ago we had a Popsicle Playdate. I brought a bunch of popsicles to Nancy's house and we all ate. the little ones really enjoyed them. I think this playdate was a big hit especially for the summer and since I bought the no sugar added kind there weren't any sugar highs to contend with and after they were done with the popsicles we filled up the kiddy pool and let all the little ones clean themselves off. It was a win/win. On Wednesday this week we went with our playgroup to the Aquarium, Nancy's Father is visiting from Argentina and she wanted to take him to the Aquarium, since we love the Aquarium too we just put it on the calendar. We were wild and crazy this time and went without the stroller, the last few times
we went to the Zoo we didn't take the stroller and were fine but this was our first time without at the Aquarium. Chance is a great little walker, actually he walks too well sometimes. There were a couple Day camps taking field trips on this day and Chance fits in spots that I don't so there were a few times when he walked right up to the tank but I had to stay back behind the other people which made me a little nervous but he did not see to care at all. All-in-all he did just fine without the stroller, i think next time we are going to shoot for the afternoon when there will be less school/day camp groups.
This picture is Chance and Octavian, Octavian (and Nancy) have been regularly attending our playgroup for the longest time nearly a year now so Chance and Octavian know each other and it shows. You can see how much Chance is enjoying himself.
ome more. I did not ask him what he was drawing this time but he got my attention then pointed at his drawing and said "Spongebob pants" which is what he calls SpongeBob Squarepants, he leaves out the square. The drawings are in order as described. His imagination is picking up in other areas too. You may not know it but the last picture on this post 
is a Rocket Ship, or at least that is what i am told. The picture of him he is wearing my paint shirt which i made him wear so as not to get his shirt all painty. This is him saying hurry up Mommy I'm done painting and I want to go outside now.
e on energy and since it was a really nice day today we had all the windows open while we were working which greatly interested Chance. We lifted him up to look out the window and found that he fits perfectly on the window's sill. He sat there with his legs dangling through the bars waving at people as they passed by on the sidewalk. There is very little damage to the apartment just a couple wear and tear things that are easy fixes and the place wasn't too dirty. We got it mostly clean today and were able to take pictures to get it listed for rent. We want to repaint a few things actually we are thinking of doing one whole room and are also thinking of making a couple little replacement/upgrades like the vents in the ceiling that are really dirty. We can
totally see why when you rent an apartment they are always white or off white, I really want to give the place some color but it's hard when you think you are just going to have to paint it again in a year and the people who move in might not take great care of it or might smoke which is why we have to repaint one section of wall, you starting thinking really quick about glossy white paint. In each room the top 1 1/2 feet from the ceiling is white, it's the same on our side, it makes the ceilings look taller but in the apartment side those guys smoked so the white is now yellow, it's awful so that is one part that we must paint before renting it again, the other painting projects we don't have to do but it would be nice. We do our best to keep the apartment side as nice as possible, I don't want to rent a place to someone that I wouldn't want to live in myself.
Yesterday we went to the park, actually we go to the park nearly every day that it isn't raining. This day we went back to Audubon Park, one of our favorites we just hung out like we always do. The video is of Chance running around and making Scott sit down so he could run around him. The blogger video uploader doesn't seem to be working so look for the video soon.
t the drummer gave him a stick during a song and let him play.
