Who Needs Mr. Potato Head

The cave and the pool...thats it I promise!

THE CAVE!

Nana and Papa

We also went to the freezing cold Dormont pool. I am definitely assimilated to Florida life, especially pool temperatures (our pool is like a nice warm bath, thats how it should be). We had a family picnic at the pool and it was lots of fun. Zions teeth chattered and her lips turned blue for the first time ever I think...thats commonplace as I recal when being a kid living in Pittsburgh. And another cold experience...we went to Laurel Caverns and explored the caves which was really fun and Zion chanted "Mommy, Rocks" the whole way.

Children's Museum

Making paper


Afterwards with our art work. Aunt Rachel and Aunt Beth came along. Zion loves her aunts and always chases after her Aunt Rachel.
Walking off a delicious dinner in the city on our last night. She insisted on walking many blocks and he indulged.

She got to drive Mr. Rogers trolley!
These are the real puppets from the neighborhood of make believe. I was so excited. She did not really care about them.
They had a little par that was like a fun house. She loved the slide...We all went down including Travis.
At first she was not sure about the "gravity room" and she cried. It was really weird, it just is slanted but it seriously makes you feel kind of weightless and dizzy. I guess she decided she liked it and she went 3 times and when we told her we were not going again she went up and took the museum workers hand and pulled her along with her...thats the patient worker above.
Zion the artist!

Okay so maybe I was having a little too much fun at the childrens museum. But hey it was fun! They have a whole Mr. Rogers neighborhood area...I love Mr. Rogers.



Zion in X's tree house.

Ohiopyle

Part of the time we were there we were not really there. We went to ohiopyle and took Zion on her first bike ride on the trail there. At first she was scared of the bike trailer because she could not see us I think...but she got used to it and fell asleep. It was a beautiful day.



My aunt and uncle kindly allowed us to use their cabin which is nearby and Zion enjoyed exploring.

We went to church with my parents and Zion got to play outside in front of the church with her daddy.


Evidence of Zions advancing age. She enjoys doing everything that big people do more and more these days and wants to do most things by herself. She was convinced that she was playing the card game too.

Prepare Yourself

For picture overload. We had a rather spur of the moment trip to Pittsburgh that was very packed but very fun. Whenever we go up there for a trip we are always super busy and this trip just flew by. We did not get to see everyone as much as we wanted to see especially one of Zion's favorite friends Lauren who we only got to see for a few minutes. The first Saturday we were there we got together with the group of friends that we spent time with when we met...high school for me...(later for Trav) Zion had fun with Mason and she really loves to say his name.
She is looking and acting so much older these days.
Playing with her new friend Josiah who is super cute and is the son of our friends Mark and Liesel. This was the first time that we got to meet him and we are so glad we did!
All the kids seemed to love Matt and his wife Erin, Mason was especially drawn to Matt as you can see.
I am just reflecting on the food we had. It was really good.

Zion was oh so thrilled to see her pal Landon. They seemed to remember each other. Landon just turned 2 but he is so much taller than Z he looks much older....I thought she was tall.
We were spoiled by really good produce from the farmers market and Aunt Abbey's garden. Tomatoes, plums, peaches and the corn were amazing.
Zion became a bride. My grandparents have been storing my wedding dress but they gave it back to us since they are going to be moving so Zion tried it on for size. Anyone want to buy it I think I am going to try to sell it on ebay.

We got to share some ice cream (otherwise known as "I Cream")with Landon on his actual birthday which was really fun. There was kind of any ice cream theme to the week. Grandpa took Zion out for ice cream more than one, one time at 9:30 p.m. They were ice cream buddies and she kept talking to him about ice cream the whole week.