Paradise Pond!

My friend Renee has been telling me about this place called Paradise Pond for a while now. But we can never go b/c they are only open to the public Thursday and Friday mornings from 9-11am. And well, I work full time. So the summer time is the only time we can go....so we went last week! Haylee & Harrison had SO MUCH FUN! There's lots of different play stations from dress up to cars and Dora. There's a jump house and slide, cars to ride, and lots more! We get to go back next Saturday for Harrison's birthday party!!

Here are some pictures from our fun!! :)

Random pictures

The past week has been....rough, I'm not gonna lie. I've been in and out of the doctor with some complications-we'll just leave it at that. :) But things are looking better for sure!






Here is a picture of the two of them...not the most flattering, especially of Rylee. But here it is! :)

Here's Rylee on the activity mat...

My Great Aunt Martha, so Haylee's GREAT GREAT Aunt Martha, sent her some finger puppets (& of course Rylee got a gift, too!). Haylee thinks these puppets are sooo cool! There are ten of them, one for each finger. There's a Santa, a ghost, a nurse, a bride, groom, a chef....and obviously 4 others I forgot. But she thinks they are cool. She'll put five on all her fingers of one hand and say, "There's 5!" Then she'll take one off and say, "Take one off, now there's 4!" and then again and again until they are all gone...really cute! And rather smart if you ask me!!

We've done some serious play-doe playing this summer...she likes to make the play-doe containers in a "train". HAHA!

And this child is SOOO into dress up right now! WOW! This picture is awful...I had the settings all wrong on my camera. But who cares, right? B/c the subject is adorable and hilarious! :) Happy Monday!

Rylee's 1st visit to Pappy & Nana's!

Rylee visited Pappy & Nana's house for the first time last weekend....it was a short visit. But hey, it counts.

Then yesterday she went for several hours with her big sister and Tommy and I went to lunch! At a restaurant! WITH NO KIDS! :) Love my kids, but it was soooo nice to eat a meal while it was hot and no one needed me. And I didn't have to take half my house with me either! :) The break was wonderful! Thanks, mom and dad!



Here are pictures from Rylee's first visit to their house...

She's got style

Haylee has a box of dress up clothes, jewelry & accessories that stay in the living room. For the past week, she puts this pink tinker bell skirt over whatever she's wearing. Everyday. It's cute and all until it's time to go to Wal-Mart. Poor girl...she tries her hardest to wear it to the store. But we always say no. HAHA. Anyway, here are a few pictures from one day with the skirt...

And here's one of the little one...she doesn't do much of anything right now except eat, sleep & poop of course. And she does them like a champ at 3am. :)

I need to share something with you that I said yesterday that I never thought would come out of my mouth. The line was: "Haylee, we don't drive the truck on the baby's head." After I said it, I looked at Tommy and said, "Never thought I'd have to say that." Hilarious...sort of. Haylee wants Rylee to play with her SOOOO bad.

Pawpaw & Bebe's visit

Pawpaw & Bebe drove up this past week so that Pawpaw could meet Rylee. We had a great visit...here's Haylee feeding Pawpaw either a pretend cookie or brownie made out of sand.




























Pawpaw & Rylee...

Look at how tiny Rylee's hands are! Her entire hand is the size of Pawpaw's finger! It's amazing we were all that little...

Another attempt at a snapshot of the four of us...

Pawpaw, Bebe & both girls...

Before they left, Pawpaw gave Haylee some "monies" from his wallet. The child thinks she's rich now. It's hilarious. Here she is admiring her money and counting it.

4th of July

On the 4th of July we grilled over at the neighbors house with several of our neighbors. Here are some pictures of our fun afternoon/evening...






Here's another picture of the two girls with their matching outfits...

And one of the little one. Side note: anytime I call her "little one" Haylee reminds me that she's the big one! HA!

Before we started grilling, Tommy and Brad (our next door neighbor) took all of the girls on the street to the neighborhood pool to swim. They had lots of fun!

Haylee & I made brownies to share with everyone. And she insisted on making sure everyone had a plate to put their brownie on. She was very concerned that everyone had one. So she counted them on the coffee table. This cracked me up!!

Here's Haylee, Courtney & Delani coloring with side walk chalk...something we do a lot of on this street...

Rylee was outside with us for about a total of 10 minutes in her stroller until she passed out. It was too hot anyway, so up to her crib she went and we just kept the monitor outside with us.

This was the first picture of the four of us we took. I've made it a point to take more since then.

Haylee enjoying one of her favorites....applesauce.

Most children just color with chalk on the sidewalk....my child is a mini-me sometimes. The child loves to line things up and organize them. Makes me so very proud! I'm sure that means that Rylee will not even understand the word organize.

Here are four of the girls. They were playing in the grass and I had them stop to pose for a picture....aren't they so cute? Haylee is the youngest on the street, besides Rylee. So she just looooves playing with the big girls.

Taking a bath...

Here are pictures from Rylee's first bath at home...Haylee thought it was SOO cool to "help" me give her a bath. She's such a big helper for sure! Notice the one picture of Haylee putting Rylee's hand in the water....it was cute, she said, "Rylee! Here, get your hand wet!"