Nina's Grandchildren: A Day with Melanie

Kevin slept in until 10am, so we had a really late start to our day! Melanie had the day off and wanted to take her dog, Sophie, to doggie park with us. Kevin loves Sophie and she tolerates him treating her like a horse.

Kevin found a rather large branch and dragged it half way around the field until Grandma made his drop it.

More spruce tree climbing today.

He had to show Melanie his trick he did yesterday of walking out on a limb while holding the limb above, then taking his feet off the lower limb while holding the upper one like Tarzan, and the upper branch dropping down with his weight so that he could easily jump to the ground. No chance for pictures as Grandma had to hold the bottom branch from bopping him as it flew up as the upper branch dropped down.

Melanie stayed to play ball with the boy.

Melanie went to lunch with us at Cora's (a breakfast/lunch restaurant we all love!) and shopping for ice skates, helmet, and ball glove at stores which sell used sports equipment.
She caught these shots of him today:

What was his doing outside the railing of the deck??!!! Good thing Grandma didn't catch this! :-0

She left us to pick up her boys, and we went to the library to sign up for summer reading. Then they met us at the playground behind the library. Baby Elie had a wonderful time sliding down a fast, spiral slide scaring me half to death! While Mommy helped him get started at the top, I watched as he zoomed down, making sure he was OK at the bottom. There was NO second to ever take a picture! He did it over and over again! Brave, thrill-seeking kid!
Teo and Kevin swinging,

and sharing a drink.

Dinner was a little unusual. Grandma style! We went to DQ for a banana split and a strawberry shortcake -- each of which we shared! Then we went home for some cheese. Yum!

Other things we did today: learned more magic tricks, colored the wooden clock puzzle Grandma bought to help teach how to tell time on a clock,