Thursday, July 19, 2012

The Real World.

Getting back to everyday life - post vacation - takes a few days to adjust. The girls and I waved good bye to William on Monday morning as he left for work wearing dress clothes after more than a week of wearing shorts and flip flops. I ate lunch without my daily vacation glass of wine and missed my daily vacation nap dearly. Apparently Sydney needed a few days to adjust too because I've heard, "don't like (fill in the blank)" about a million times the last few days (i.e. "don't like bath time," "don't like this song," "don't like breakfast time," "don't like this shirt, it's too itchy"). Need I even mention the daily vacation babysitter?

After the aforementioned adjusting, it seems we are right back in the swing of things. Schedules, routines... Which leads me to our weekly grocery trip where the girls now insist on choosing the HUGE green car shopping cart with double steering wheels and very poor turning radius. 

Don't say you'll never use this shopping cart. I did and look at me now. 

And on another note, here's our independent stander. Maybe this is the reason she is eating us out of house and home. Grilled cheese, ravioli, spaghetti, cheese toast, chicken nuggets, you name it she will eat it! 

Monday, July 16, 2012

A quick preview...

Here's a quick preview from this year's beach vacation. As you can see by the lack of pictures we took, the week was great fun (So much so that I need a vacation to recover from my vacation)! I have a few more pictures from Dad that I will share later this week. 

Sydney is becoming a pro at swimming with her new floatie (Is that a word? Spell check seems to think it's not.) and she spent lots of time with Harper and Grayson. Both girls loved the beach! Brooklyn finally figured out that she is not allowed to eat the sand and slept through the entire Blue Angel show without budging. Sydney on the other hand loved watching the Blues and was a pro at building sand castles, burying feet, and making sand cupcakes. Pop and William took Grayson, Harper, and Sydney to play putt-putt golf (not so easy with a 2 year old) and then to the ferris wheel. The week was a complete success! 


Filling some down time with Pop...



 Best Buds!


Dad, is it too soon to ask if we can do it again next year??

Friday, July 6, 2012

9 Month Check-up:

I lugged the girls to the doctor's office this morning for Brooklyn's 9-month check up. Armed with paci's, snacks, crayons, books, and toys - we made it with relatively little whining and crying. Brooklyn is right on track with her development and her ears have luckily cleared up. We're off for a week at the beach taking a clean bill of health with us. Here are the stats...

Weight (19 pounds) - 50th percentile
Length - 90th percentile
Head Circumference - 50th percentile

July 6, 2012
and a few action shots while were were waiting...





Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Happy Birthday America!


July 4, 2012
*Dress hand-made by yours-truly.



Tuesday, July 3, 2012