Our neighbor is the groundskeeper for a
couple that owns a beautiful house on a river nearby. A few
days ago we got invited up to play for the afternoon. It was
fun, and a little bit of country. She made a little grove of
trees and prunes them (or whatever) so they are great climbing
trees. The boys loved it! Eve wanted to climb too, but settled
for eating a freshly picked apple from a nearby apple
tree.

Eve checked out their
cool “chair” rock and they all took a “canoe ride” to find
buried pirates treasure. Parrish did the paddling and, I’ll
admit, Lex was confused. :)

Eve just held tight to that apple
and all was good. We had a really fun time. We have nice
neighbors :)

A funny little aside…
when I was getting the kids ready to go I asked Lex if he
wanted to play with Parrish. He said yes and Eve got very
happy. We got hats and shoes and went into the garage. When I
tried to put Eve in the car she threw a little fit and said
“Parrish! Parrish!” over and over. I put her down for a minute
and she ran to the door of the garage, calling Parrish’s name
and trying to get out. I think she was really confused that we
were getting in the car to visit Parrish :) It’s cute that she
can say his name and she was very happy when we got out of the
car and Parrish was there.