The Johnson Journal

I never knew that squirrels like french fries, but they do! I took the kids to the park today. It was very cloudy and cool I was actually a little cold which is quite a change from the extremely humid 90+ degree days we've been having. We took some lunch to the park. After we sat down, we noticed a squirrel who wasn't timid at all. He came right up to where we were sitting at the picnic table. Kyle threw down one of his fries and the squirrel picked it up and ran over to a tree about 10 feet away. He held the fry like an acorn and started nibbling on it. It was the cutest thing. I wished that I had brought my camera along. The kids were just giggling. He ate a few more fries and ran off. A few minutes later he returned with a friend and they both started chowing down on the fries.

Over the weekend we went to Joshua's 8th birthday party. The kids had a lot of fun swimming, throwing water balloons and hitting the pinata. Kyle never quite got the concept of throwing the water balloons at people. He was just having fun pulling them out of the bucket and throwing them on the ground!