Summer Blessings

So far summer has been a blast with the kids.  Porter is SUCH a boy, and goes 110 miles an hour with his tongue out - the Cowlitz tongue... Here are some pictures of the kids playing outside in our neighborhood, at the park, and at the pool.

Emma Rose LOVES the swing, and giggles every time  she is pushed to go higher.

Probably the best thing about this summer has been meeting their new baby cousin, Haley Madeline Leavitt.  Porter talks all the time about how sweet she is, and wants to re-read all the "Big Brother" and "Baby" books we read to him before Emma Rose was born.  Just this morning in the church nursery, he found and began cradling a little baby doll.  He told me that the baby had been in his tummy for a really long time, and then he went off, rocking the baby in his arms, saying, "Oh baby Haley, I love you."

Last night, the kids had so much fun at the 4-year-old party of their good friend, Sofia.  It was at a place called "My Gym" and they were free to run around wild.  Emma found herself dancing on the trampoline.  She LOVES to dance!

Emma Rose was exhausted after the party and was having some play time in her crib.  Porter decided that he needed to get in with her and sing her a song, "the song that Grandma always sings to Emma."  Love his rendition:

Needless to say, our summer has been full and blessed!