Chase met his shadow!

So we were outside playing and Chase looked down and kind of stared at his shadow and noticed that when he moved, it moved. Then he waved and I ran to get my phone! It is so amazing to watch him learn and discover things for the first time!! Love you monkey!

Soergel's

I guess we didn't get enough of the animals at the zoo! We decided to go the farm route and met Chase's best buddy, Owen, at Soergel's Farm.

Clearly Chase was over the farm at this point! Still LOVE the picture!! Owen is always ready with a big "cheese" for the camera!!

It's a jungle out there!

We decided to make our first zoo trip before we lose Daddy to football and we had a great day!!

Chase's way of saying he had a great time!!

Summer flies...

and I've been slacking!! I can't believe the summer is almost gone ~ we've had a great one! Here are just a few highlights...

A Happy 4th of July came with a new retaining wall ~ aka "our summer vacation"!

Mommy made a quick trip to Minnesota to meet handsome cousin Micah! Chase can't wait to meet him too!!

We went to Lake Morraine for an afternoon to the "beach".

Chase had a little fun playing in the water...

but, he mostly preferred the lunch portion of our visit. He kept walking back from the water to get into the cooler!

Chase and mommy took a swim class throughout the summer and he "graduated" in August!

I have to admit I got a little choiked up when they played actual graduation music at the end of class!

Chase also got his first guitar lesson from Uncle Craig!

That pretty much takes us up to date. Hope you all had a great summer, too!!

Carman Family Reunion

We had a great weekend in the Poconos for the Carman Family Reunion! I had full intentions of taking lots of pictures with all our cousins and relatives, and I got one! Guess I didn't anticipate "Chasing Chase" around the lake all weekend! This is still a great picture of our crew ~ of course we missed family Decker!!

North Park Swimming Pool

It was a hot Sunday afternoon, so we decided to give the pool a try. Chase did pretty well in the big pool, and checked out the mushroom sprinkler with Daddy:

Doesn't he look just like Kevin with a bink in!!

This is our new fuss-face! Always makes me laugh!! And, look at all those teeth!

So, we lasted about 15 minutes in the water, then retreated to our towels for some fishies.

And more fishies,

and more fishies,

and more fishies, and then we went home.

But not before Mommy got a picture of her favorite little chubby foot!!

In case you were wondering...

Chase still LOVES his vaccuum!!