Bikes

We have been doing a much better job of being active this summer!  We’ve been trying to go for either walks or bike rides several times a week.  The girls are loving it!  Boo Bear is doing a great job on her little bike!

But she usually can’t make it very far, so when we bought a bike for me so we could start riding all together, we also bought one of those pull trailers for the little ones.

Buggy is still just a couple of inches too short for her new bike so when we go on a longer ride (two miles is long for her) she rides Boo’s bike and Boo rides in the trailer.

T needs a new bike too…this is an old hand-me-down one and the brakes do not work very well!  He’s making it work but we’ll probably get him a new bike next summer.

It’s not too hard to pull the little ones but the other day we’d already gone for  two miles and Buggy was exhausted.  I’d ridden over to worship team after dinner and he decided to bring the girls up to the church to play so he had Bug and Boo in the trailer and Peanut in the hiking backpack!  He got a good workout toting all three of them around! 

This was our first family ride…we’ve since bought Peanut a helmet.  She loves riding along with the wind in her….fuzz…and chewing on toys!

Last week we biked over to the baseball fields and threw the ball around for a while before heading home, and a couple of days ago we walked to get an ice cream cone while Buggy rode the bike.  We stopped at the park on the way home and ran into two sets of friends that were already there.  It was one of those loving-life-in-our-small-town moments.  The kids took off to play with their friends.  The dads stood in a circle chatting.  The moms sat at the picnic table talking about paint colors and babies.  It was a warm with a nice breeze, and just the perfect end to a hot summer day!

We’ll have to find ways to keep this active lifestyle going once the weather turns cold again.  It’s been so nice to be out in the fresh air!

Wordless Wednesday

Parading

We had our town days this weekend, and, as always, it was a great time! 

Our church worship team got to play at the gazebo again this year.  I was supposed to go help set up at 8:30, but since I know nothing about wires and amps and speakers and sound boards I sent T in my place.  Thank goodness I did because they had problems getting it to work and he saved the day!  The girls and I went down at 9:30 to begin our fun day!

Papa, Noni, Uncle M and A arrived shortly after.  Sweet girls!

Noni kept the kiddos in the shade where they danced to our music.  I felt bad for the singers who had to stand in the sun…I got to sit under the gazebo and it was nice and cool with a breeze.

After we got done playing it was time to stake out a spot to watch the parade go by!

The girls favorite truck/vehicle was one of the fire trucks that was being driven by one of our friends.  Every few feet he would send a spray of water shooting out.  Pretty cool!

The girls were excited to see our town’s float! 

A loved the horses!  She was waving and saying, “Hi horsey! Hi horsey!”  So cute.

Bug held her hand so she could stand a little closer to see better.

This was my favorite float, other than our own.  I couldn’t believe the detail!  It must have taken forever!

The octopus was especially neat!

After the parade we got some lunch.  The girls wanted to go in the bouncy house.  There’s no way I could go bouncing around like that right after eating! :)

But they had a great time!

We wandered through the booths for a while before finally heading home.  Peanut didn’t get a single minute of her morning nap so she was pretty exhausted. 

She fell asleep just as we got home, but I transferred her to the crib without a peep.  Boo was tired too and said, “I weally need a nap today Mommy.  Just a wittle one.”  I let her lay down and had to wake her up two and half hours later!  I guess that’s the sign of a really fun day! :)

Lake Day

We’ve been busy going and doing around here!  Uncle M and Auntie N are visiting and brought their adorable granddaughter A.  She is 2.5 and is such a sweet little girl.  Bug and Boo love her! 

We decided to have another lake day last week so we packed up the kiddos and spent some time soaking up the sun!

We swam, and ate, and read, and swam some more! 

Boo has been getting “sick” lately and we finally realized that it is the sun! 

After spending the day at the lake for my birthday she started to get a fever… for the third time within two weeks…and Papa said, “Do you think it might be too much sun?”  I thought back and realized that all three times we’d spent most of the day outside.  I don’t know if it is because her hair is so dark it just soaks up the sun or what, but she will be going along 100% and all the sudden get really tired and want to lay down.  She starts feeling warm and gets a fever that shoots up to around 102 (102.6 was the worst).  So after realizing that might be the problem I just made her drink a lot of water and keep a hat on whenever she was in the sun and that seemed to do the trick.  She had no side effects from this lake day.

Peanut was really sleepy, and I was afraid she wouldn’t take a nap like she did on my birthday, but Noni ended up walking around with her until she fell asleep. She got a short nap but it was enough to keep her from being too cranky that evening. :)

It was nice to spend another day at the lake.  The only thing missing was T…he had to work.  Hopefully we’ll get a few more lake days before fall hits! I am loving these warm summer days!

11 Months

In one month we will be celebrating Peanut’s birthday!  I didn’t time our little “photo shoot” very well this month.  She was ready to go down for a nap, so she wasn’t real happy that I was making her sit in a chair.  She also wanted to pull the sticker off her shirt and I kept scolding her and putting it back on.

This was as big of a smile as I got…mild amusement at my antics. :)

Escape!

Silly girl!

“Okay Mommy, I’ll take pity on you and pose nicely.”

The biggest change this month has brought about is talking.  It is way too often to be a coincidence.  She says, Ma-ma, Da-da, a version of both her sisters names, Mo (more), and Ah-don (all done). 

She also has done the sign for more several times, but most often just screams and claps her hands for more food.  She LOVES food and feeding herself.  Cheese and bananas are still holding onto the reign as the favorites.  She eats almost anything we eat in small pieces.  I give her oatmeal from a spoon for breakfast but that is the only “baby” food she eats.  She wants to do it all herself!

She likes loud noises.  When I vacuum she screams and squeals like she’s trying to out-do the noise.  When we were at the farm and started doing fireworks she started jumping in my arms and saying “Ooo-oo-oo!” like a monkey and clapping.

She loves to “sherbet” and smack her lips together, kind of like a kiss.  We were shopping and an older lady saw her and smacked her lips together and Peanut did it right back.  The lady said, “Oh my word! She’s a genius!”  Haha, I didn’t tell her that Peanut just happens to do that same motion 100 times a day. :)

She LOVES to be outside, and especially to be around water!  She missed most of her afternoon nap and was SO crabby the other evening so we put her in the stroller and went for a walk.  She was happy as a clam.

She’s not too interested in walking, but she crawls like lightening everywhere.  I don’t think she’ll walk before her 1st birthday like her sisters did.  She is pulling herself up on the couch and piano bench and starting to cruise a tiny bit, but nothing like they were at this age.  She doesn’t attempt to stand on her own, although while I was taking her pictures she kind of slid out of the chair and stood for about .5 seconds before sitting down on the ground…

We’re enjoying this beautiful summer with our baby!  Next month we’ll have a 1 year old!

“Dat Funny?”–Part 7

Okay these are the last of Boo’s since the great loss….

December 18th

She brought me an ornament that had fallen on the floor.  "Oh-no Ma-Ma!  Dis ord-da-ment yost it’s hooker!”

December 23rd

After our Christmas light cruise we walked around the dock to see all the lights up close.  She wanted me to carry her but she was super squirmy.   Finally I said, “I can’t hold you if you are squirming!”  She looked at me nervously and said, “Is dere a twoll (troll) un-dah dis bwidge??”  Realizing she had just read the Three Billy Goats Gruff I assured her, “No.  It’s a dock.  No trolls.”

December 30th

“We gonna go shoppin’.  Me, you, K, Daddy, A.  Not Izzy. Cause no dogs ah-wowed.”

January 1st

She was playing doctor with Noni and Aunt Karen and she told me, “My wegs are bwoken cause I was going bare-feeting at camping.”

January 8th

She randomly said, “I like A’s eyes. Dey pwetty.  Yet’s call her sweet pie Pascal.”

January 17th

She was wearing her Rapunzel dress and couldn’t get her wig to stay on.  Finally, she threw it to the side and told me, “It’s okay Eugene. My hair dust turn brown all-weady.”

Shower Girl

Ever since Peanut started sitting up and being able to take a bath with the big girls the tub has been just a little crowded.  I noticed that Buggy was waiting longer and longer before getting in, and eventually just waiting until Peanut was done before hopping in herself.  I asked her if she wanted to take a shower one night instead of a bath, and she got very excited about the idea.  Now she only wants to take showers after the little ones have had their bath.

Showers are great for being silly!

Our little girl is growing up!