Hangin' out in the Hot Weather

Summer has definitely come to Colorado. It has been in the high 90's every day and sunny. But yes, it is a "dry heat" and I we haven't minded it much at all!

Violet and I went to the zoo again this week. It's SO FUN to have her there where she can stand up and look around a litte more. Here she is looking at our favorites, the giraffes:
Then we shared an ice cream cone while we watched the elephants:
We also took a much appreciated trip to Jenna & Laina's pool. Here are Laina and Violet checking out eachother's Sigg water bottles. Violet was kind of obsessed with Laina's pony themed bottle.
Violet LOVED the water! She hasn't been swimming since Christmas so I wasn't sure what she would think. I am going to have to see about getting her some swimming lessons - she dunked her face under the water twice and when I was holding her she wanted so badly to squiggle away. Silly!
And... we FINALLY have a dining room table and chairs!! Yes, after 2 months of eating either on the back porch or in front of the tv, we finally have a proper alternative. We found this on Craigslist - it has 6 chairs so we can actually *gasp* have people over for dinner!! I just need to recover the chairs which should be fun.
Violet celebrates sitting in her old clip-on chair again:

And we're proud to say that Violet has skipped right past learning to speak English and has mastered... something else. We're never quite sure what she's saying but she knows EXACTLY what she's talking about! It's pretty funny! She is also really loving her bath time - making up for lost time!