Sitting In Things and Glenwood in June

June was the month for sitting in things! Daniel has always enjoyed occasionally emptying a container or basket and then getting into it. But now? At 3 years old? The pictures are the proof.

Yes, he has 2 wooden knives on a tool with a red handle sticking out of his shorts. Not only did he get into the bowl, he was putting things up his pant legs. I don't ask anymore.

Here are some blasts from the past:

Daniel climbed right in without bothering to empty the container! 

Daniel actually got into this same cooler the other  day. Needless to say, he didn't have nearly as much room as he did when he was 6 months old!

 

Daniel loved riding around in the laundry basket! I could even just put him in there at 9 months (left pic) and he would play for a while. At 1 year (right pic) he was getting a bit heavier but still loved flying around the house.

This basket was the first one he actually emptied out and climbed into all by himself.

The end of June we went to Glenwood, NM to visit the Evans family. It has been so much fun for Daniel now that he's older to visit with Garrett, Brett, and Wyatt. The boys patiently play with him, inside and outside, though they have learned that they can take turns now.

They did play outside, but it was terribly hot. This was where the boys usually were, unless they had a million toys spread out on the floor (Daniel emptying boxes of course), then at least one might be on the floor with Daniel.

Myself, Megan, and the boys went to Mogollon for the day - an old mining town up in the hills - while Richard and Chris went on a backcountry hike. We hit every business in town - the museum, the wood worker shop, the junk shop, the art gallery, and the restaurant. We would have gone into the inn, but the doors were locked.

This was the sign at the bottom of the road. I like how it was tampered with! But the road was NARROW and STEEP and had more blind turns than I could count. Thank goodness I was driving or I would've gotten car sick. Not sure I'm going back up anytime soon, though it WAS really beautiful.

Main street. The only street.

The museum had lots of junk - I mean historic stuff that was really cool to see. Actually quite a bit was pretty cool.  Daniel had a field day seeing all the tools!

 Daniel's first jack hammer! Then he showed me how a jackhammer works. Very funny.

The boys at the back of the mine inside the museum. What a great group!