This and That

For some reason I failed to post a picture of Eli and Evan completing their summer reading at the library. It has been about two weeks now and they are very proud of their shirts!
We have had various activities as of late, nothing earth shattering, but note worthy anyways. For the first time, we, that is to say John, attempted canning. We picked about 10 pounds of green beans one afternoon from our garden and decided that now would be a good time to try out canning. John read up on it, everything seemed to work, and the jars are sealed, so we are assuming they will be good! In the end we had 10 pints and 6 quarts of green beans.
I also hosted my first baby shower for sweet little Greta.
My cousin, Michelle, and I the other day went to a zoo concert which was lots of fun. I had not been to one in a long time. We saw Brandi Carlile, and it was a really great show. Thanks again for the invite, Michelle! Love you lots!
Eli finished up his summer swim session. He graduated from P1.5 to P2, so he is very excited that he will be starting in the big pool! Sorry no pictures. My camera is a bit uncooperative.

The weather has been quite odd lately, so today we had some art time. We finger painted in the garage, and had a great time. The paint fortunately was water soluble, because Evan pretty much painted himself! Later, they used scissors and cut pieces of their finger painting and glued them on paper. It was fun seeing them being creative and I discovered that Evan is quite handy with scissors. He had never used them, but held them right from the beginning and I rarely had to replace his fingers in the holes. I also reminded him about a hundred times that scissors are for paper even though that is how he gets his hair cut.
They have two different cutting styles. Evan uses the open mouth approach, while Eli prefers the tongue sticking out technique. Both seem to be effective.
And last but not least, our food harvesting for the day. We had some blueberries that were ripe and they picked about 1/3 of that little green bowl.

Unfortunately, Eli became distracted while picking tomatoes when Evan held up the little green empty bowl. Oh well, there will be more blueberries in a couple days!