August Part 2

A few more summer adventures.   We took a trip up to Arlington with our friends, Melissa and Molly, to visit the Outback Kangaroo Farm.   All sorts to more exotic animals from Kangaroos and Wallabies, Lemurs, Alpacas, Llamas, Emus, and an Ostrich.   Super fun and the girls loved it.  

Ice cream at the local dairy not far from our house.   Its known to have great ice cream, so as a family we made our first trek there.  Maddy got her own dish of chocolate ice cream which quickly melted in the 80* heat.    She had a few bites and said she was done and ran off playing.  I threw it away.  Moments later emotions flared when she discovered it was gone.  She  ran to the garbage can to look for it.   I ruined her day and her ice cream.  Probably a good thing, later read the dairy has been written up for pest control and other sanitary issues.   I don't think we'll be going back anytime soon.

First trip to the zoo with both girls, by myself.  Big deal and we made it.  Maddy suckered me into going by asking to go on the carousel over and over and over.  I gave in and we went to the zoo.  Sorry no pics of both the girls, its hard enough getting a picture of one child.

Maddy's first game of Hide & Go Seek.  Sh figured out what the neighbor kids were doing and joined in.  I happen to be outside and watched it all happen.   She was too cute and didn't quite get the whole game, but was definitely into the hiding part.  Hence, the fuzzy picture as she was on the move.   She loves trying to figure out how to play with the big kids.

Makena being Makena.  Loves to stand on her head.   And is just tall enough to start grabbing stuff off the table.  This is the phase/age when things really start to get lively for me.  

Melting Mom's heart with each step.

Wait, there is room for more...here let me shove my way in.

Sisters.  Lets hope they always have this many giggles with each other.

August Part 1

I am trying to play a bit of catch up on this blog.   I realized I'm a about a month behind and have thought of so many things to blog about.   I use this blog as more of a journal of the ongoings with the girls. I am not a scrap-booker and definitely not good at creating albums, this is their scrapbook.  Just online.   I recently printed out about a year and a half worth of posts into book format with Blog2Print.   It was a rather easy process and turned out great.  I'll be printing the rest of the blog in another book, and then can breathe a sigh of relief knowing I have a 'scrapbook' of sorts for the girls.    Back to the events of Summer

Lots of time at the neighbors feeding goats, picking raspberries and blackberries, and checking out the gorgeous flowers.   Makena learned to eat blackberries in the neighbors garden.  This is huge as she is just now getting onto table foods and still terribly fussy about it all.  She is walking better and more stable everyday and getting quite fast!   Huge smiles and laughs the faster she goes.    And yes, she still loves that pacifier.  And honestly, so do we.  It keeps her happy, thus were happy.    Happiness all around. 

Its pretty wonderful having a beautiful garden to enjoy behind our house.  All the enjoyment, none of the upkeep.

  Time with Memere means laughs all around.

Crazy moments with a 3 year old.  Fleece slippers, no clothes, 

pull-up, and a Easter Basket on her head.   I had to capture this.  

My little screamers in the car.  Makena recently found out how to really shout it out.  

Makes car rides really "fun" now.   Maddy has always been loud. 

Wonder where she got that trait?

Everyone should wake up this happy.