Sistahs

Yesterday my sisters came into town from Denver and Seattle and I couldn't be more excited.  I've been looking forward to it for a long time and can't get over the fact that we're the adults getting our kids together now.  I remember so vividly the long road trips we took as a family to California and Texas, visiting our aunts and getting together with our cousins.  It feels pretty surreal to be hosting our own family get together and I'm already loving every second.

Today us girls took all the kids to the nearest "beach".  Evie sis learned that she's obsessed with swimming and drank about a gallon of lake water.  The rest of the cousins had a blast - particularly Lyla.  She's had the very best time playing with her big kid cousins. 

It's going to be the best week ever.  :)

- K

 

Triumphant Return!

The last few months have been the blurriest blur that ever blurred.  I can barely even remember March, April or May.  Luckily, I did manage to take photos occasionally so this is what I've pieced together:



While we were in Denver to celebrate Evie's birthday we also got to meet our brand new niece, Brailyn, and celebrate her baptism.

 

We had awesome weather (especially for March) when we got back so Evie got to play at the park for the first time!  And promptly ate as many small rocks as possible.

 

 

We spent a lot of time as Princess Anna doing the tick tock scene during the song "Do you want to build a snowman?"

 

 

 And we read lots of Barney.

 

Then we had our biggest snowstorm of the year and built our own snow castle.

 

 "Somebunny" stopped by and we ate way too much chocolate.

 

 

We celebrated Dad's birthday.  The cake escaped with only one drop to the face.  Ahh, the joy of three year olds.

 

We wore underwear on our heads and Loubis to do laundry.

 

 

We rested.

 

 

And played.

 

We went to Costa Rica -

 

 

and made some new friends.

 

 

We pretended to be grown ups.

 

 

 

We played at our new neighborhood's park (oh yeah...we moved too).

 

 

We wore pigtails for the first time!

 

 

And "taught Carlos how to sit".

 

 

We turned into teenagers and spectated big sis' swim lessons.

 

We gave big sis a ride and scandalized poor Princess Anna.

 

 

We celebrated Mother's Day (aka Coronation Day according to L)

 

 

We shared juice and suddenly turned into little friends (and also enemies).

 

 

We had a new nanny no-show on her first day.  So we called it quits and went to McDonald's.

 

We broke out our Cinderella waffle maker and made waffles for the first time as a family!

 

We tried Fudgecicles for the first time and rocked on our new rocking chairs (I've always wanted white rocking chairs on my very own porch!!!)

 We went to the horse races for the first time and got rained out so we went to a video rental place (also for the first time!) and rented all the Disney movies we could get our hands on and had a family movie night.  (We apparently had lots of firsts this Spring!)

 

 

We painted our door blue!  And planted flowers and put up our American flag.  And spent a shameful amount of time at Lowe's.

 

We had a great Memorial Day and finally made it through May!

 

It feels good to have reached June - the last few months have been a crazy ride with 2 mortgage refinances, buying a new house, moving, several trips, and my fiscal year end.  I'm so excited that summer's here - I've been looking forward to these longer, warmer days for a long time!

 

- K





Home

Today was our first full day back home and first day at work since last Saturday.  It felt good to get back into the swing of things, and after a day of playing catch up at work I packed up the girls for a Target trip.  Lyla wanted to look for a book and we didn't have much to shop for so I was looking forward to a fun, low stress outing.  We made a thorough mess of the book section and Evie showed off her new found running skills, darting from aisle to aisle and giggling when I'd find her. 

After about a half hour we decided to actually get our shopping done when Lyla announced she had to go to the bathroom, then promptly said she pooped.  I thought it was weird it happened so fast but applauded myself as I calmly thought, "Ok, no big deal.  We'll head for the bathroom, abandon the panties, and be on our way."  When we got to the bathroom stall I learned why it had happened so fast and also that the pants would need to be abandoned as well.  Evie tried desperately to play in the toilet and settled for climbing around the bathroom floor and rubbing every square inch of herself on that nasty floor while trying to escape under the door.  I had no extra pants so I had to put them back on poor Lyla.  Mind you we'd gotten no actual shopping done at this point.

We ran for the kids department, grabbed a pair of shorts and headed for the groceries so we could grab just the necessities.  That was when Evie...spit up?  Threw up?  I'm still not really sure what happened but her entire front side was covered in something along those lines.  We grabbed our whole milk and ran for the checkout lines.  Evie screamed while Lyla tried to cover her head in Target stickers, and the clerk announced that I'd accidentally scanned my card twice so I'd need to pull it out to do it a third time.  Insert all the sarcastic faces here.

I thought the worst was behind us by the time we got home and then Evie rolled over and ran off in the middle of a diaper change, sauntered over to our brand new rug and peed on it.

It was a warm welcome home, indeed.  ;)  The truth is I wouldn't have it any other way.  Missed those girls and their crazy antics last week more than I've ever missed anything.

- K