this morning we are:

-playing with wipes

-not going for our daily walk 

(we will later, when it warms up)

-watching Cars

-sharing yogurt, and a muffin

-tickling

-not getting ready

-texting

-entertaining the teething one with photo-booth

its been a good morning.

the next big thing

Tonight was Lily's first gymnastic class. She more than loved it, in fact she kinda of cried when we left.

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We played on the beams, the bars, trampoline, foam pit (only kid to willingly jump in...everyone else was twice her age too!) just ran up and down the strip, vault, spring board...she did it all. There was lots of yelling and laughing on her part as well.

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Tonight was her first class so it was free, to see if its something we want to do. It is, I think gymnastics is a great sport and getting her used to all the equipment now is a great idea. Let a lone it wears her out before bed time. The class is 30 minutes, once a week and its a parent-child class.

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I was picking her up to help her climb a ladder and her little heart was beating so fast! And when we got in the car to go home I handed her the sippy cup and she downed the whole thing, so it must be a great work out for her.

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Watching Lily, I couldn't help but remember all the hours I have spent in a gym similar watching my sister or my cousins do gymnastics and be so jealous of them and their awesome skills! I am not going to be a crazy sport parent, but I would love if Lily wanted to stick with gymnastics, at least for a few more years.

official

The wispy mullet can be pulled into a pony! 

Also, notice the gnarly farmer's tan?

If my closet doors are open she immediately goes for the shoes. She is extremely impressive with heals, she literally walks around the house in them better than I do.

words spoken:

Home

Hot

Yuk

Hep/Hup (help)

Duck

Tack (quack)

Mama

Dat (dad, and everything else)

Peas (please)

ssssss {with a head nod} (thanks)

Doat (boat)

Tat (car)

Nana (banana)

Teeees (keys)

Tuce (juice)

Gah (go)

ahk (walk)

Hup (up)

{pretty sure there are more but cant think and Chad needs the computer back.}

ps-Lily goes to her first gymnastics class tonight...kind of can not wait to see this!

camera is dead.

Well...technically the battery is dead, so I have no proof that my 4th of July was awesome or that we baked all last night or that Lily can swing in a big-girl-swing (she is very proud of the fact). 

But trust me it all went down. 

Now I am going to tend to my daughter who likes to immediately dump her bowl/plate when we give it to her, whats with that?

a happy 3rd of July indeed

Yep, sure was this hot at 5:05 tonight. 

This morning Syvlie and Eliot called and invited us to explore the river a bit with them. We drove east about half hour to a fork of the river and have to say, had one of the funnest days on record.

{like Lily's sun screen hair?}

It was a hike down to get there, and trying to walk across the slippery rocks, and current was tricky (especially for someone rotund as I) but we ended up finding an AWESOME spot.

We had a blanket on the sand/rocks for when the babies got cold which actually worked great cause the ground was too hot to walk w/out shoes. Lily would take a few steps and then say "hot, hot!" and run back to the safety of the blanket. The rocks made a little ledge to sit on and then it was straight drop into deep crystal clear water. 

I cant get over how beautiful it was.

All snacks were demolished by these two. Whenever we get together we often call Lily and Leia the "seagulls" cause the mooch and eat everything. 

{mine?}

On the way back curiosity got the best of us and we had to stop here, the Gingerbread House. The best decision ever, well, next to joining Sylvie and Eliot. I had a gingerbread milkshake which was celestial. Chad had a blackberry shake, and then we got some fries.....and then we got an oreo shake to share cause they were THAT good, so thick a straw was impossible.

Today is a day we will remember for a long time, beautiful place, great friends, happy babies, warm sunshine and good food. Hard to beat.

how we do

The ONLY way I can grocery shop with her:

She gets to drive, and have a cookie.

Thank you Fred Meyer, I love you.

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What do you eat when its 90 out {and will be the rest of the week?(key point here is we do not have AC)}

This:

We were all full and happy afterwards.

good bye june

switched it up today: we went for our walk after the nap.

I enjoyed:

Rays on my face. I am a little rosy-cheeked now.

We played "I'mGunnaGetChu" all over the big field, and were covered in grass clippings.



Tried to take a picture here, and that blur you see is a little Lily finger.



I just asked: "where's Lily?!" she obviously is hiding.

Yay sun screen face!

Here we are, Eden and I, watching Lily run around flailing and laughing. I am really excited to see these two together.
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Can you believe its July? I can, its apparently going to be in the 90's all week here=bare minimum clothing and a fridge tent.