Simple Sundays.

Sundays are my favorite day.  There's something about pausing from everyday life, taking the time to reflect, renew and rejoice in a higher power.

Papa took the girls on a hike this afternoon.  I stayed behind so I could call  my sisters and plan meals for our up coming reunion.  Yippee!  My heart starts beating faster and I get gigglely when I talk about the reunion,  I'm so excited.

But while I'm waiting for the call I decided to blog.  I feel like a piece of my soul is missing.  I haven't been able to blog as much as I want lately.  Life is busy.  Sometimes it gets too busy, but that's what makes for interesting blogs, so I can't complain too much.

This is how we roll

It seems like over night these two have become best friends.

It makes me so happy to see them play together.

And laugh together.

There favorite thing to do is wrestle

Morning playtime, seems to be my favorite

We renewed our zoo pass and I've been in heaven ever since.

James' is a chick magnet.  hahahaha

Grace loved the budgies too

Thanks Sara for coming with us

Rainy days at the zoo are the best.  The animals are more active in the rain.

After the zoo Sara took us to her place for a BBQ and some swimming.

Grace loved the water.  She's screaming with delight in this picture.

One morning while I was doing Apartment work Gwenevere asked me to take a picture of her.

This was the pose she wanted.

We also took a trip to the children's museum.

It was quite the gang.

Painting at the children's museum.

We took the train, max Link whatever you want to call it, to the museum.  On the way home it started to rain we where all soaked by the time we got to the the train center.

Nothing better than cuddling with a friend after a morning of play at the children's museum.

We went back to Sara L's house for pizza.  

It was a GREAT day.

Grace sure likes her rice.

Maybe I feel so busy lately because our nights are so eventful.

Neither Grace nor Gwenevere have slept through the night in the past three weeks.

After another tiring day, Gwenevere asked to sleep in Grace's crib, to encourage sleep we agreed to her request, but that meant Grace needed a place to sleep.  So the laundry basket became her bed.

that night turned out to be one of our better nights of rest.

I hope these sleepless spell brakes soon.

And one of my most favorite days of the year, Duck Days, took place on Saturday.

We had a blast watching the parade go by, eating free hot-dogs that actually tasted good, exploring the fire department and taking pictures.

We got a good laugh at Mickey profile.  

Mickey needs to go on a diet.

Grace loved the ducks until I handed her over to one.

Gwenevere came straight from ballet

Showing off her cool firefighter tatoo

Gwenevere was afraid to stand by the fire truck by herself.

Grace's first time standing by the fire truck

We come home and all took naps.

That's all folks.

Picture Happy

We've been having a lot of fun with Papa around.  

We stayed in a cabin near Mt Rainer with friends

We took the train down town Tacoma and visited the Children's museum ( I forgot my camera)

We've gone on lots of walks and played at many parks

James' cleaned the bathrooms and fixed our bathtub faucet

James and I went on a date: Sushi and bowling.

We helped two families move  

Gwenevere's been practicing for her ballet recital 

Grace has loved playing with her toy cars and is scooting around getting ready to start walking

But most of all be been having a lot of fun.

Here are some random pictures for the last couple of weeks

Gwenevere has to wear her hair in a bun for her recital so we've been practicing.

Gwenevere and Grace have rediscovered their love of playing with each other.

It's so cute.

Grace loves to play with this toy car town.

Gwenevere likes to pretend Grace is her pet puppy.  

It's cute watching Gwenevere call Grace "Here puppy".  Grace gets so excited and starts crawling to Gwenevere which just reinforces the idea that Grace is Gwenevere's pet puppy.

Grace has learned how to climb up the toy ladder to get to the slide.  

Gwenevere's safe spot is no longer safe from Grace

But Gwenevere's embraced her new little mini me

I bought some sun glasses for Grace and she's finally willing to wear them.

they look a little funny but it keeps the sun out of her eyes

We're working on summertizing the girls for Lake Powell.  YIPPEE!

Having a picnic at the park

Playing in the sandbox

Gwenevere loves to wrestle 

Luckily Grace loves to wrestle too.

the two of laugh the whole time they wrestle

We also started our garden.

I know it super late but I didn't want to garden until I knew we would be stay through the summer.

We planted Rosemary, basil, and Peas.

Grace enjoyed eating the dirt and Gwenevere made sure the plants where well watered.

Playing at the park with Friends

Friends

Growing Grace (9 Months)

My Baby Grace has grown so much.

Grace you love life and you love learning. 

Your first tooth came through on May 14th.  It's the bottom right.  

and your pointer finger is the best teething toy.

You now pull yourself up and let go.

You are my little dare devil, you scare me with your "no fear" attitude.  It always seems to bring a little excitement into my day.  

I can't take my eyes off you off of you for even one sec while in the bathtub.  It's your favorite place to stand.

You are getting faster at chasing your sister around the house. I believe you can crawl down the hall in 4.2 seconds.

Each morning after eating breakfast you love to look out the window and watch the birds.

You love to talk.

Some of the words you say include

Papa, Dada, Mama, Gigi (For Gwenevere),  Ought Oh, and Hi

I'm not sure you know what all these words mean but you love to say them.

You also use the sign "All done".  Usually you sign "all done"  when I'm changing your diaper and when it's time for a nap. 

You love to  play with Gwenevere and it's fun to see you two giggle

Grace you have a personality like no other. I like to call you Drama (in a good way).  You're either 100% happy or 100% mad, when you're not sure what to think you make the funniest faces.  I love it all.

You love playing with Papa's tools.

You are a dancer.  You throw your whole body into the moves and you laugh at my silly dance moves.

We dance to "I like to Move it move it"  At least 3 times a day.  (Gwenevere's request). 

You love to be cuddled by Papa at bed time.  

And you love to eat.  I don't think you'll have a hard time giving up nursing.  Your favorite foods are baby puffs, bread, apple sauce, bananas, and yogurt, (which is funny since you didn't like me eating diary for the first 4 months of life)

It's become a necessity to wash your knees and toes each night before for bed.  They tend to fade into a shade of black from all the crawling you do all day.

We love having you in our family. 

 Here are a few of my favorite pictures of you this past month.

This is a classic Grace look

this is the "I'm not too sure about this" look

Playing with Papa's bike pump

Helping Papa build his new bike, aka eating bike grease.

Not your best bath picture but it's the best I could take in between saving your life as you try to stand up in the bath tub.

Playing at the zoo.  You pulled yourself up.

You wanted to sit on Gwenevere's chair and you started crying because she wouldn't let you.  So I got out a little chair for you and you where the happiest little girl I've seen.

Playing at the park with Grandma

Look at you stand

"Hey Grandma, pass me the tomato"

I love your blue eyes

Proud of your Papa

Chilling with Red Grandma

Hooray for Papa

I love your Smile

reading Papa's Diploma.

Your first tooth.