Orrin at the water trough.

Orrin was having such a great time playing in the water.

I thought his reflection was really cool here.

I love his expressions and how he looks so grown up.

It’s the same water trough/thingee that Ethne and Talmage were playing in when I took these gorgeous pictures.

  

Those lips!!  They just make me want to kiss him right now!!

Then we watched the cows parade to the barn for milking. 

 

And I took a picture of our neighbor’s pretty flowers.

Then Orrin did his favorite thing, which is kicking a ball.  Look!!!  He’s walking!!  All by himself!!  He COULD walk by himself for several weeks now, but he just wouldn’t.  He always had to hold our hands or else he would just ape-crawl.  But he’s finally doing it!

Anyone who’s thinking of having a baby, I HIGHLY recommend having a 7 or 8 year old girl to help take care of him.  Hazel is amazing.  Oh, and this morning she went to school practically crying because we had a few minutes (how abnormal) to read a chapter before they left and we started the Laura Ingalls Wilder book ‘By the Shores of Silver Lake’ which is the one where you find out –in the first chapter- that Mary got sick and became blind.  I remember being terribly sad when I read that when I was a kid too.

Also, I talked to my brother-in-law Blake and he told me about how he just shot a big mountain lion (and I told him we’ll have to call him Cougar Blake, like my great-grandpa Cougar Jack), and I told Hazel about it and she said, “He’s like Pa!”  :)  We really loooove the Little House on the Prairie books around here.

 

And I’ll just tack on these pictures from our afternoon in Bern at the end of this random post.

And finally, a sunset.  It had been raining all day so I love how the colors are reflected on the wet road.

The end.

p.s. My sister Kami told me I’m not funny anymore.  Isn’t it sad?  You can stop reading my blog now I guess.  sniff sniff. (I’m kidding!)