Fun summer days

Lots of things to write about again!  Can you believe those beautiful rhododendrons are already over??  I was over at Anthony and Lori's this afternoon, first time in about a week, and took these pictures.  But there will be other beautiful things.  It's only June, hallelujah!!  My favorite month!!  Because the days are long and there's a whole summer ahead!!

On Sunday we decided to leave right after church and drive to Ella's Place in Elizabethtown where Destiny is now a server - the place where she and I "happened" to stop for lunch the other Friday and she got hired while we ate lunch!  

The place was busy when we arrived on Sunday, and she was the only server.  The other server had called in sick!  Bless her heart!  She did not have time for a drink of water or a trip to the bathroom!  I let her quickly drink some of my ice water.   We were VERY proud grandparents as we sat there watching her.  

Everyone loves her there - the management and the customers!  She was supposed to get off at 1:00 so she could go home to Elizer, since Alex had to go to work.  But there was no way she could leave.  So we went to their house to take Alex to work, then went back to get her.  

Here's a view of the Susquehanna River on our way to Alex's job.  I remember this view so well from my childhood when we would go to our Uncle Roy's place.  I would always be afraid we would fall into the river at the bottom of the hill!

Elizer conked out before we got back to Destiny's job.

Back at their house I had so much fun watching and playing with him.  

Destiny wanted to try out the charcoal grill she had gotten on FB Marketplace.  She was hoping that her brother Shalimar and his girlfriend and their new baby would be able to come over, but they didn't.  So it was just Grandma and Grandpa for guests!  We grilled hamburgers, sausages, and corn.  

While Destiny and Dick were grilling, I was pushing Elizer around the neighborhood in the stroller.  But it was a really hot afternoon!

What better solution for a hot afternoon?

Everything turned out delicious, especially the sausage sandwiches and the corn.  Destiny was just about starving by that time, and she REALLY enjoyed her food!

Elizer had eaten a lot and was looking pretty sleepy-eyed.

These are pictures Destiny took on another day when they were playing in the kiddy pool.  How cute is he??  I just don't know how babies learn to walk at 9 months!  Mine were at least a year old.  I do remember that Destiny started walking at 10 months, so maybe it's in the Collazo genes, haha!

Monday was a major catch-up day for me.  

Then on Tuesday Hunter was my buddy again.  I had two things he really loved to eat that day - watermelon and corn on the cob.

He amazed me as usual. He rediscovered these blocks.  He was not interested in the letters or the numbers on them, but rather in creating a square with them.  After he had put these 16 together, I told him to go get four more blocks, and that would be 20 altogether.  He said, "But then it won't be a square.  We must have 25 or 36 or 49 or 64 or 81."  I had never thought of that!! 

We went to the little playground behind our house for a while, then came and sat on the rocking chairs on the porch.  While we sat he told me all about Rescue Bots - their names, their jobs, who some of the humans are, who the bad guys are.  Then he wanted me to watch an episode with him.   Not the least bit interesting to me, but I did anyway!  And guess what?  I actually half understood what was going on because of his "lesson" on the porch!  He's a teacher already!  

He played with these marbles for a long time, dividing them into different groups.  In this video he was talking about the different ways that the number 8 can be divided up. 

In the evening we met Lori and Austin at Circleville Park.  

Today I did our laundry and made a stir fry for dinner, some for us and some for Anthony and Lori.   This evening I had fun on video calls with Sammy and Bianca and later with Destiny and Elizer.  

So I'm finishing this up way too late.  Gotta hit the sack!!