Summer fun

Oren's had a fun time discovering summer in his first year of walking. He and Jerz have shared playgrounds and boats, goldfish, and destruction of play toys. Oren tosses toys down the stairs, out of his stroller, and into the street, Jersey bites through them. But there's one thing Oren loves that Jersey can't do: biking. Mention the word "bike" and Oren's gathering helmets, chanting "bike, bike" in Japanese and trying to remove my bike from the shed.

Oren likes blackberries

Jitensha (bike!)

"Mine."

One day after work Daddy and Oren biked down to get froyo.

Tuesday's chillin' with Mama

Oren's first time in a kayak. He was a natural (barnacle).

And Hillary gets the nomination! Oren claps with the crowd.

Oren's first concert - Weird Al Yankovic at Zoo Tunes

Oren in his Jimbe for the summer Obon festival

We also took Oren and Jersey out in a rowboat on Green Lake because walking them both on land wasn't enough of a challenge. Oren took being placed in a boat as well as he does being force fed beef. But once on the water, it was Jersey's turn to misbehave as he tried to go after swimmers. Needless to say if our ship went down and the four of us were on a life raft I'm pretty sure any ships in the area who found us would decide "let's just do one more circle of the area and then we'll see if there's still four." Hehe.

At the zoo, Oren got to meet the sheep cow sheep. Which is it?