Summer heats up

The summer is flying by! Here are some of the highlights from that last couple weeks:

Jay's brother, Herb, and his son, Dean, visited for a few days on their way home to California. Even though Dean is quite a bit older than Kahlil - he's 11 - , they had a great time together playing and riding bikes. We all went to a Corvallis Knights (the semi-pro baseball team) game one night. By chance it was a 'Dash for Cash' night... basically kids go to the infield, and on the count of three a person at each base throws 1000 one dollar bills in the air, and then the kids do what they do. As Jay said the kids turn 'Lord of the Flies'. Dean only came back with one dollar... it's a sore subject. But after the game, they let the kids run the bases. Dean, Kahlil, and Langston all thought that was great. The video at the bottom of this post is of Kahlil running the bases.

Langston had his 15 month check-up. At 24 pounds, he is still 50th percentile for height and weight. He has been communicating more but mostly with grunts and head shakes. He will say 'uh-oh' when he drops something, which is very cute, but that is pretty much the extent of words... we're working on 'mama' and 'dada' but he's not really into it.

Blueberry season is in full swing. Kahlil's fantastic picking skills picked up where he left off last year. On our first day out last week, he filled his bucket and picked two pounds. We went again yesterday and meet a few friends. He was really disappointed when it was time to leave and his bucket wasn't full but he still managed to pick over a pound. Our combined efforts has yielded nearly 18 pounds so far. There is nothing better than frozen blueberries in the winter!

This is Kahlil running the bases. It's a little hard to see him, but he's the one with the goofy gate and getting passed up by everybody else.