Kings Island Adventure!

At long last! She has been tortured with every trip to Aunt Kristen's, passing the "Tiny Tour Eiffel" and interesting-looking rides for over a year and a half. Finally, Genevieve got to go to Kings Island with Lily and Alex (Mommy, Daddy, and Kristen too)!

A picture paints a thousand words, but in some cases does not give the true representation of the day. Exhibits A – E, below.

It appears Gigi spent the day out-of-sorts and Alex spent the day smiling and waving. In fact, Gigi had a wonderful time! Lily had a wonderful time! Alex’s time was a bit more variable. He was not so enthusiastic about the rides, and protested often. However at the end of ride torture, he consistently announced “that was really fun.”

Lily’s favorite seemed to be the wave pool. Gigi’s could not be pinpointed so easily.

We Love Stricker's Grove!

This year's trip to Stricker's Drove was double-friends and double fun! Genevieve took Leela, and Rye came with his family and neighbor Alex.

Along with the usual rides, we were excited to learn that the girls were tall enough for the BIG rollercoaster this year! They rode it repeatedly. The other favorite was the ferris wheel.

Along with the rides, they got to enjoy all-you-care-to-drink soda. The special treat they chose (as if soda were not enough) was cotton candy.

Genevieve LOVES fruit. It is by far her food of choice. Today she enjoyed a pear. This is what she gave me when she was finished.

Yay! The pool is open!

What a fun day! Aunt Coney, Uncle Daniel, and Alice came to visit. We had a cookout at the Volz house, and headed to the pool for the first dip of the season.

Genevieve headed straight for the baby pool. After some convincing (and realizing that Lily was NOT going to play in the baby area), Gigi tried the big pool. She was very excited to learn that she was tall enough to stand on tip-toes!

Lucia arrived in an identical bathing suit. This was not the least bit interesting to Genevieve.

Lily and Genevieve got to stay up late and watch the fireworks from Kings Island.

Go Tim Caps!

We took a trip with the Hogans to the new ball park in Fort Wayne to cheer the Tin Caps on to victory. Genevieve could not quite get the name down.

"What are the called again, Mommy?"

"The Tin Caps."

Oh, of course. GO TIM CAPS!"

She sat next to TJ and talked his ear off. She May have fallen in luv just a bit too.

She was actually quite interested in the game (or sitting next to TJ at least). She enjoyed the bounce house and T-ball in the kids area. Daddy took her to the merchandise shop and offered her anything she wanted (earlier she expressed interest in a pink foam finger) from the store, or a snow cone. She picked the snow cone.

TJ got TWO game balls, and gave one to Gigi. The nearby tween-age boys were green.

After the game, players were available for autographs. I could not explain this in a way that made sense to Genevieve. I enthusiastically told her that the players would sign their names on her ball. She looked at me as if I were insane. She said it was HER ball, and she wanted to write her name on it. I had no good response.

We were also able to run the bases. Gigi LOVED it! So much so that she ran the bases four times.

Artist? Or complusive?

She started grouping found objects by color when she could barely walk. I thought this was a developmental milestone that was past. Today I looked in her “igloo” tent and discovered I was wrong. Green is the color of the day!

We have converted her! When Genevieve sees a "great Clips" she refers to it as Daddy's haircut store. Her "haircut store" is the salon where she had her first shampoo, cut, style, and manicure. She always objects when I suggest she can get her haircut where Mommy and Daddy do.

Today we made the transition with no arguement. I think the trick was letting her know it was time for a haircut while she was still groggy (or glurry as she puts it) from a car-nap. She was nervous because she loves her long hair. She said, "she can cut just the top hair, right?" Once in the chair she asked if the stylist was going to put her curls back in.