Rocks in the pond

One of our favorite things to do these days is to walk down the street to the little pond and throw rocks in.  Always a good way to pass some time on a nice day!

Snuggly Bear

Claire is SUCH a snuggly little girl and I LOVE it!!  Whenever she is tired, upset, even happy about something, her first reaction is to come crawl over to me and snuggle.  Here she is one morning before church and very tired still.  She just came and settled right in on my lap while I was sitting down helping Lucy with something.  Cute, cute girl!!

Sleep-in celebration

These girls take turns waking up early/sleeping in.  The very day that my early-riser-of-the-moment decides to sleep in is always the day that my usually-sleeps-in child wakes up at the crack of dawn.  Basically I never get sleep.  But one very, very miraculous morning, both girls slept in until 7:40ish.  Too bad I woke up at 6:15 to be dressed and ready before they woke up, but at least I had a bit of time to myself to enjoy some peace and quiet before the craziness began!  Anyway, as soon as the girls woke up, we went straight to the store in their pajamas and grabbed a donut to celebrate because that is DEFINITELY cause for some celebration.  Unfortunately, it hasn't happened since.  One of these days...

Nails with Lucy

Lucy loves to paint nails and especially with my gel stuff.  The problem is that she is also a picker!  As soon as I paint her nails, she is picking at them and peeling it all off!  Every time!  She loves it so much and begs for it so often that I give in and do it but always regret it when it looks awful a few minutes later.  Anyway, that's why I took a picture... because they last longer. :)  This particular day though, she couldn't decide on a color and wanted all of them, so that's what we did!  I actually thought it was really cute!!

Baking with Lucy

Lucy loves loves loves to help me in the kitchen with everything.  Mostly because she wants to eat half of whatever is being made at the time, but hey, whatever.  Anyway, she always gets a little goofy and excited too.  Love that about my girl! This particular day, she made cards for a bunch of our neighbor friends and wanted to deliver them with some peanut butter cookies.  So that's what we did!

Gymnastics

I felt like Lucy was really needing some organized activities in her life to keep her from being too bored and to just give her some new opportunities and social interactions.  She takes Gymnastics class on Monday evenings, we go to storytime at the library on Tuesdays, and then at-home preschool with neighbors on Wednesdays, and a Music Makers class on Thursdays. We do all of these with the same two neighbors, which also helps Lucy too, I think.  Anyway, my neighbor took pictures of Lucy for me at gymnastics (since I am trying to help Lucy while holding Claire).  She gave them to me in a hard copy, so here are some pictures of pictures.

Lucy was super timid at the beginning of the first class.  I was a little worried that I had wasted my money because she just stood there and watched everyone while begging to hold my hand and grab my leg.  She refused to participate at all and looked like she was going to cry the whole time.  But by the end, she was having a blast on this little bar.  And after that first day, she BEGS to go back, totally participates with a smile, and runs all over the place doing it all and LOVES it!  I am so so glad I signed  her up for this class!

Another visit from Aunt Wanda

My aunt came to visit us again in September and we had so much fun with her, as usual!  Lucy was so excited for her to come and kept asking all day if she was coming "right now" on the day she was driving down.  We went to Lucy's music makers class and the park and then then to Lisa's to see her and the girls.