Last weekend was so hot that we never bothered to leave the house. Miss Susan and Mister Paul were down visiting and we hope they didn't mind beating the heat with two cooped up kids.
Mama and I got up early and made papa a blueberry oatmeal pecan streusel coffee cake for Father's Day(we didn't have a recipe, so we improvised). After breakfast June took the opportunity to bring all of her dinos and animals to the table to show Miss Suze. June recently has started identifying them all by name. She identifies the following:
"Ceratops" - Triceratops
"brake-saurus" - Brachiosaurus
"Staurus" - Stegosaurus
"Rex"- Tyrannosaurus Rex
Somehow, this poor little dog ended up as prey to the Rex. Miss Susan swears she didn't put it there. Ever since, June has been playing out her carnivorous fantasies, as most of her farm animals have been eaten by dinosaurs. She is very sympathetic when it happens. Whenever a dog gets eaten, she is sure to cry "Oh no!" after a few dino roars.
Later, they practiced counting. June can make it to 30 now- more or less. If we could only convince her that counting starts with the number one, not number four.
We spent a quiet day watching the World Cup. After supper, mama decided to follow a Seibert tradition of making homemade ice cream for Father's Day. We wish we could have been at Great Grandpa Seibert's house hand-cranking some peach ice cream, but we thought mint ice cream, using mint from our garden might come in a close second. Disaster hit when our electric ice cream freezer over-heated and we couldn't finish freezing our batch.
Lucky for us, I reminded mama that there was more ice cream in the freezer, so we didn't have to cancel ice cream "Sundae Sunday." I concocted our sundaes from brownie ice cream, whipped cream, peanuts, chocolate dope, purple sprinkles, and raisins. Mama and papa declined the raisins, but June and I knew they were missing out.
