July 4th in Lexington, SC

July 4th weekend we visited Roger's cousin, Cynthia and her son Joseph, who live in Lexington, SC.  Lexington is around a 3 hour drive from Atlanta. It's 20 minutes from Columbia, SC.

On Saturday, we went to the children's museum in Columbia.  Here, Cleo is climbing a huge shoe.

Cleo riding a triceratops.

Sidney holding a dinosaur egg while Joseph watches on.

Little hatchlings.

Playing in the market.

Getting ready for the arctic breeze machine to start up.

Two weeks ago the kids helped Roger make a strawberry cream pie. It came out really good.

Sleepover at the Tookes

The last weekend of June, Cleo and Sidney slept over at Alexandria and Quintin's house.  Blake, the Tookes' little cousin, also slept over.

After swimming, they had a nice pizza dinner.

They had great fun at the pool at the Tookes' subdivision pool.

On Sunday, they went to the fountain at the Old Fourth Ward Park near where Martin Luther King, Jr. grew up.

Uncle Jimmie and Aunt Vivian's Visit

Jimmie, Cleo's god-father, visited us the weekend of June 22.  Sidney laying down and looking cute.

Jimmie and Cleo.

Vivian and her boyfriend Ernesto were also in town that weekend.  They stayed with us two nights.

Cleo and Roger after Cleo's Xanadu performance. Xanadu is the two week gifted kids camp that Cleo attended the last 2 weeks of June. It's run by Atlanta Public Schools.

Cleo and Roger at Xanadu's open house.

Vivian and her god-daughter.

Cleo enjoying her home made margarita pizza that she is very proud of making herself.  She learned to make it at Xanadu camp.

Cleo squeezing lemons to make homemade lemonade that she learned to make at camp.

Sidney helping too.

Happy Father's Day

Roger reading his cards from us.

Roger examining our gift.  I put all the kids school pictures in a frame that we painted.

Later we met our friends at Brunswick Zone bowling alley and arcade.  We met Rhonda and Lamar Ward and their kids Lamar and Lyra. Lamar has been in Cleo's class since kindergarten. Lyra and Sidney will be in the same kindergarten class this coming year.

Sidney throwing ping pong balls into Solo cups - kid friendly beer pong.  ;-)

Cleo playing large size Temple Run.

It was a fun day.