playground

There is a playground in Manheim that we had never gone to before last week. I'm not really sure why - we've been to playgrounds all over the county since we moved here and to the other one in Manheim. They have some really cool stuff at this one (you just have to be about 15 to be able to actually use some of it). I thought I had a lot more pictures than these few. Apparently not. 

Swinging with cousin Delilah.

Monkey bars that he can't get any farther across.

And this crazy thing. The top and bottom both rotate at different angles. The kids weren't quite tall enough for it so they just sat on the bottom piece. I think Rory and Gage both got thrown off from it spinning so fast.

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All of our peach products.

And peach ice cream...

...with maple peach sauce.

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We went peach picking on Friday at Brecknock Orchards. The kids thought it was great. I'm pretty sure they would have stayed and picked for hours. 

This is the beginning of the trail back to the orchard. Rory somehow managed to run for a rather long way with two heavy kids in a heavy wagon. She had to give up pulling when the trail turned into bumpy dirt instead of flat gravel. 

Piper has to use two hands to pick a peach. Every time she picked one she would walk around for a couple minutes saying, "I picked a peach!". Then she would go pick another peach.

Crosby wasn't really much help. He just looked cute and tried to eat leaves.

Sixty one pounds of peaches. Gage made sure we got a picture of him hugging them. We made some plain old canned peaches and some peach butter today. Tomorrow we are making peach vanilla bean jam and maple peach sauce. And sometime we're going to have some homemade peach ice cream and I think we'll try this.

This is the playhouse at the orchard. They have a play kitchen and lots of food inside. The kids thought we should stay all day and play in it.

super cool piper

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I had a couple really cute ones with everyone smiling. They were the ones that ended up blurry.

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Piper had finally started to call Crosby something other than Baby. She now calls him Crobby. She really likes telling him that his head is naked and that it is eight o'clock (even when it isn't eight o'clock).