Claire and Ally, BFF's

These two girlies are already great friends.  Ally was born 3 months to the day before Claire and they are forced to be friends since their moms and siblings are. Ha! But its so funny because the second we set them down by each other, Claire goes straight to grabbing Ally's pacifier and Ally goes straight to grabbing Claire's bow and neither of them cares because they are more interested in whatever they are grabbing on the other person!  It's pretty funny to watch.  They also crawl over to each other and do the same things, like waving at the window to their older siblings outside on the trampoline, reading books together, and playing with the same toys. ;)

"That awkward moment when you realize you showed up in the exact same outfit as your friend..." These next two pictures crack me up!

Fall is here!

I love hot summer weather, but fall is by far my most favorite holiday.  It's so much easier getting around with kids when the weather is absolutely perfect!  Not too hot and not too cold... sure!  Let's go to the park! We have gone to the park almost daily and taken a lot of bike rides and walks around the block and to our neighborhood pond to throw rocks in it.  While the mornings/evenings can require a good layer or two (or winter coat), the afternoons have been pretty pleasant.  Fall is the best.

The wagon ride was fun for the first half but then Claire decided it would be could to ride standing up, so I spent the rest of the time trying to get her to sit down.  It got a little crazy.  No more wagon rides until she can sit down and stay down. ;)

 Every time we go to the park, Lucy wants to go on the monkey bars.  The problem is that she can't do them by herself yet, so she just climbs up, grabs on to the first one, and waits and.or yells for me to come help her.  Usually I am helping Claire go around the park though so it throws me off and I have to run fast to where she is!  Crazy girl.

Claire's crazy cozy coupe hair

Princesses

Lucy and her friend Mya played dress up one day and then stayed that way the rest of the time.  Lucy doesn't usually keep dress up clothes on for very long but she had a blast doing it when a friend was dressed up with her!

Sunday outside

It was beautiful weather a few Sundays ago, so we spent a while outside, just hanging out on a blanket with some (a lot) of toys, and standing on bikes in cowgirl boots. You know, the usual.  It was such a great, relaxing evening as a family.

Splish Splash on a Saturday night

Claire LOVES bath time and the second she hears the bath water start to run, she books it into the bathroom and tries her darndest to touch the water coming out of the faucet.  She stands so far up on her tippy toes for so long trying to do that, it has got to be uncomfortable. I had to get a picture of it.   

 These two can get real giggly when they start to get tired and loopy (and sometimes real cranky, but this was obviously not one of those nights).

Claire and her bears

Claire LOVES Big Bear.  Lucy did (and still does) too.  But there was a stretch of a few weeks where Claire and Lucy's naps weren't quite matching up and every single day while Lucy was asleep, Claire would crawl over to Big Bear in the corner and just snuggle up with him for a while and put her feet up on the side of the tv stand next to her.  I would often be cleaning up or something and realize that I didn't see Claire playing with her toys anymore and she got really quiet.  Lo and behold, she was snuggled with Big Bear every time.  I love that he's her cute fuzzy friend. :)

 She went nuts in Costco when she saw this big stuffed bear, so I put it in the cart next to her and she was a happy camper.