Beach week begins!

Today was our first day of our Western Michigan Beach Week vacation!  It was a fun filled packed day.

We started off with some blackberry picking!

christina picking and eating berries

yummy blackberries!

isaiah was really good at picking the ripe berries

concentration hard...

Then we spent the rest of the afternoon at the beach...

This is the beach right by the beach house

silly face

sand castle fun

abby and isaiah working together

christina was very scared of the sand in the beginning.  she eventually warmed up to it... a little...

After dinner fun...

at night we had a campfire...

with smores!!!

loving the smores!

Looking forward to what the rest of the week has in store!

2 years old!

can you believe our little girl turned two last sunday?!  what a sweet, silly girl she is!

this is her favorite facial expression--- (we call is the skateboard face because her daniel sahmchon used to make the same kind of face when he was little and we thought it his mouth was shaped like a skateboard)

another skateboard face photo

christina loves sunglasses... even if they are too big for her!

umma's sunglasses

this is christina's favorite birthday gift--- its a giant stuffed donut!  (just like her umma!)

christina was so excited for her cupcake at her party she actually drooled as it was coming out.  this is the aftermath of the cupcake eating!

mmm... frosting...

happy birthday christina!

Fun in the sun

we have been very busy this summer~~ even though its been so hot out!

here are some jumbled pictures!

isaiah finally got a hair cut

hanging out at north avenue beach

christina liked it at the beach--- just didn't want to be on the sand!

lounging.  you can see the city in the background

we went to a balloon birthday party in the park.  they tied notices on each balloon with the day and an email address hoping that people who find the balloons will email in their locations

the kids running up the hill to release their balloons

isaiah about to throw his balloon in the air

chasing after the balloons

isaiah reading nonsense words

here is another video of our dear isaiah!  it is important for kids who are learning to read to be able to decode words that follow certain patterns-- whether those words are real or not.  one of the skills that isaiah and i work on is reading "nonsense words".  he's getting really really good at it!  we make it into a game with these cards here:

Busy summer

its been a very busy summer indeed for teamshin!  we've had tons of fun traveling to michigan, dc, va and keeping cool from the crazy heat!

here are some random jumbled pictures so far...

hannah emo bought us a homemade popsicle maker, yummmy!

having fun at the park

isaiah's first day at cooking class!  he made strawberry bread.

xtina at pearl's wedding near dc.  it was HOT!

christina again at pearl's wedding

enjoying the view from the planetarium

isaiah the astronaut!

visiting dc

christina the monkey

Mommy-son morning

yesterday umma and isaiah had a fun morning out in the city!

first we jumped on the city bus which took us straight to isaiah's favorite structure of the city--- this horse statue!

then we walked over to the front of the art museum.  stopped by these fountains on the way.

then, at the front of the art museum we got to hang out with isaiah's second favorite city things--- the lion statues!

next we walked over to crown fountain.  it was still early in the morning so isaiah just wanted to walk around and splash a little.

 

 

he ended up splashing a little more than either of us expected so our next stop was Old Navy for some new pants, haha.

And then we went to a cream puff store called Beard Papas for some unbelievably good dessert.  We bought extra to take some home for appah.

 

After that we jumped on the el train back towards home and had a yummy lunch at yolk!

what a fun, exciting day!

 

christina videos

our baby girl is so grown up now!  here are two videos of her.

1)  here is christina walking downstairs at the wedding--- she's not holding the railing at all!


2)  here is christina singing her abcs with her new favorite toy.  (she's not wearing any pants because i just changed her diaper, haha)