July

We had a blast celebrating Independence day!

We started with the Lion's Club Pancake Breakfast. It was delicious! Little A loved the sausage. Baby L tried some egg and pancake and seemed to like them.

Next we went to the parade and book sale. I found some great books including a large collection of children's books. I was excited. We've read them several times; Little A loves them.

Little A had fun during the parade. She loved gathering the candy and seeing some of her friends in the parade. Baby L snuggled our friend and slept through almost all of it.

We got a group photo with some of A's friends.

After that we headed home for lunch and naps. When the girls woke up we went to the circus! While we waited to get in Little A got a pony ride. She really loves those.

The last time we went to the circus we ended up watching it from outside the tent. This time we brought A's headphones and got her some snacks. She LOVED it! Her favorite thing was the puppies, but she also loved the trapeze! She was even really brave and asked for a coloring book so she could get it signed by the clown! She LOVES that coloring book and has looked at it a lot since. She did her very best coloring in it too! It was so cute to see her concentrating so hard on doing a good job.

She also asked Daddy for a blow up Panda Bear toy that they had sitting at the entrance. Daddy sure loves his girls. He got them one, ha!

We headed to Nana and Pops for a family BBQ next. All the kiddos were exhausted, but they had a fun together.

Sunday after lunch I told Little A she could choose two candies from her parade candy. I looked over to see her searching her candies like this. Ha!

Baby L said her first sentence!!!! She looked over at Little A choosing a candy and said "A, I want some candy!" It was mostly vowels but she said enough of each word that we could understand! She was very pleased that we understood her. She didn't get any candy, but we did give her some fruit, which was just as good. She has also started army crawling! She's done it a little bit before but never really got anywhere. Now she can get all over the place. If we can find the right motivation she is really, really fast!

Little A has become more and more interested in board and card games. She loves to choose one for us to play in the evenings. Her favorite lately is "Guess Who".

Baby L has learned how to go down the baby slide! She loves it!

She has also become interested in the play kitchen, much to Little A's dismay. They've played pretty good so far though. A likes to make food and give it to her.

We had a fun afternoon at the Lake with family. Baby L loved playing in the sand.

Little A LOVES the water. It was really difficult to get her out of it. She had a blast! They took the boat out for a minute, but it was having some problems so they weren't able to stay for too long. I tried paddle boarding for the first time. I LOVE it! I wish I could do that every day!

I had to go to the doctor one day. While we were waiting little A found this guitar in the toy bin. She had her own little jam session! 

In pre-school she made this bird house for me for mothers day. It is darling. She is so proud of it!

We all got the stomach flu. It was so terrible. It started with Little A. Baby L and I came down with it about the same time (in the middle of the night). Allan took care of all of us that night. He hardly slept and never for more than 30 minutes at a time. He took care of us the following day as well and then came down with it right as he was getting the girls ready for bed. Thankfully I was well enough to take care of things. We are so grateful that Allan and I weren't sick at the same time!

The company Allan works for throws a family party every year. We love going to it. We ate a ton of ice cream and cotton candy, took some family photos at the photo booth, had a yummy dinner, swang on the swings, and chatted with K6 and her family who work for this company as well. Little A had a ton of fun. For Baby L it was just too hot. We tried to keep her cool with cold water.

We finally got around to painting our front porch. It looks SO much better! Little A was a really good helper. She did a great job painting.

Toward the end of the day she was all tuckered out and took a break to look at books. Allan and I had so much fun working together that we decided to continue painting for our date that night while the babysitter watched the girls.

K6 gave us some Care Bear costumes. Little A decided to wear one the other day! It was so darling. She wore it all day long!

On a walk the other day Little A was getting pretty tired. She was goofing off, holding onto the stroller and walking backwards. She tripped and landed in the basket. Then she decided it was a good seat and stayed there for the remainder of the walk.

Little A loves to take selfies! Ha! This is one of her recent ones. She's too cute! Her speech is getting more and more clear! She is speaking in more sentences as well. We are SO proud of her! She is becoming the family cheerleader! She loves to cheer us on in whatever we're doing. Allan took the girls to the dump with him the other day. When he got out of the car he let Little A out of her car seat so she could watch better. She cheered him on the whole time he was unloading stuff from the truck! "Go, Dad, Go!", she yelled over and over again. What a cutie pie!

Both the girls went to the audiologist to have their hearing tested. We took Little A in June the first time, but she was so shy they couldn't get any kind of information. So, we went back this month and made L an appointment too. Little A did a great job the second time around. Her hearing seems to be just fine. (We're not surprised.)

Baby L was hilarious! They have all sorts of lights, sounds, and moving objects in their sound proof room to try to get the babies to respond. Baby L responded for a minute or two then she said and signed "All done!" and wouldn't do it anymore. She continued to say/sign "All done" over and over. When they tried to talk to her through the window she would only wave goodbye to them, ha! Her hearing seems to be fine also. She did have some fluid in one ear. They think probably because she is teething. We'll go back in a few months to make sure.