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This summer we sent the kids to a few different summer camps including: Impression 5, Potter Park Zoo, and the YMCA aquatics camp. They opted to stay clear of of the Kids Corner summer camp, so between the three-above mentioned camps they spent a lot of time with family. They dug holes and had cousin time with Grandma Dara and Papa. They swam and went fishing with Grandma Mary and Grandpa Gordy. They got ice cream with Aunt Emily. They went kayaking with Aunt Lisa and future-uncle Doug.

While the kids had a fun with their new summer camps, we also took this opportunity to attend a protest at the Capital to voice our outrage over the administration’s continued detention of families and children. Ajax listened tentatively to the speakers and asked some very good questions. Noomi enjoyed making signs, but then rolled around in the grass… still she understood that you don’t lock people in cages. Yea, my seven year old got that instinctively. Our current President is a disgrace (I’m restraining myself…).

We headed to Allegan for Ms. Vivian’s birthday party – the big 4! She’s currently in love with flamingos, but who isn’t? Her party was at the Allegan Pool and everyone had a blast. The kids swimming confidence has improved tremendously and both felt comfortable jumping off the diving board into the deep water and running over the obstacle course. They did great and are turning into quite the fish.

OH – we also went wedding dress shopping with Aunt Lisa for her May wedding in the Dominican Republic!

The weekend after we returned from South Carolina Team No Judgment ran the Michigan TM in Oxford. This was my 5th full TM and Dave’s 4th TM. To our team we also had my friend, Tamara, and this was her first. We also had seasoned pros: Lisa, Grandma Dara, and Aunt Theresa! We had a ton of fun with a few minor (and one major) injuries. We rounded out the night with dinner at a BBQ place and we all ate too much!

After TM I jumped on a plane for Orlando, FL, for my annual AILA conference. The highlight was a whole night at Harry Potter World at Universal. It was great.

I had the day off from work today so Ajax and I hung out at home.  It was the perfect day for being home.  It was cold and overcast outside and rained pretty much all day. . . I had planned on going grocery shopping, but we never left the house.   Grandpa Rod and Grandma Dara sent home some veggies from their garden, so I took the day to turn some of it into baby food as Ajax loves squash.   I’m also proud to say that I did laundry and clipped coupons (I even organized them in a little binder, but the trick will be for me to actually remember and use them at the store); Watch out Martha!   Overall, Ajax and I had a great day.  He seems to be quite the pro now at rolling from his tummy to his back, and sits up as long as he wants to.  He still thinks its funny to just sort of fall back when he’s done sitting up and can’t figure out why we keep propping him back up.

This weekend we headed up north to Mikado to visit Dave’s family.  We got there around 10:30 pm on Friday (Ajax slept the whole way up) and put the little guy right to bed and he was out all night long.   He actually slept better up north than he has been at home… go figure?   We also brought Max up so that he would have the opportunity to run around in the woods.  Unfortunately, I think this will be his last trip up north as he’s not really doing so well.   On Saturday we did the rounds up north and visited with Dave’s grandma Indish and aunts/uncles/cousin.   On Sunday my mother in law, Dara, and Dave’s grandma Dingeldein took Ajax to Church, while Dave and I stayed home and bummed around.  They said he did very good and only fell asleep once!  Not bad for his first time in church.  We had a great time seeing everyone.

I know- two posts, one night, crazy.  But we’ll be out of town this weekend, so thought I’d hit ya with as much Indish family fun as you could handle.   As I’m sure most of you know Mr. Dave is obsessed with zombies and yes, I have an unnatural fear of the undead.  That being said, last year my husband dragged me to a Zombie walk in Ferndale.  I invited friends, who ever so politely declined the invite for more sophisticated endeavors.  Well, it’s almost that time again for this years walk and Dave is super pumped to bring Ajax.  We may even dress him up as a baby zombie… in his stroller.

Check it out yo- http://www.zombiewalkdetroit.com/

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This morning I dropped Ajax off at Dave’s cousins house.  His cousin’s wife usually watches Ajax once a week, however, this week and next she has him for two days.    Anywho, they have two little girls and then she also babysits her niece.  Ajax is the only little dude in a house full of girls.  As soon as I brought him in the house all three girls descended on him to get a closer look.  Kristy said he’s now getting used to having the girls hover over him (as they are “helping” watch him, lol).  I bet he’s getting used to the attention- welcome to the rest of your life kiddo.

Today I gave up on a bib as the kid insists on trying to pull them off during meal time.

I’ve also been looking at getting a convertible car seat for Ajax as he has about outgrown his infant car seat.   For some reason I thought babies were in these infant car seats for like a year or something.

Dave is just getting over bronchitis, so we’re keeping a close eye on Ajax to be sure he doesn’t come down with anything.   So far so good.   We still plan on heading up north this weekend, so long as Dave is up for it (because my role on that 4 hr drive is to keep Ajax happy and then fall asleep).