Happy Summer! It's been a bit of a whirlwind -- with the new baby coming we started house hunting and found a lot (in our neighborhood) to build our future house on! We showed the girls and they're excited -- especially for the creek in the backyard and to help design their rooms. :)
It was a fun last week of school for Lily and I loved tagging along for field day and her end of year party. Then we welcomed the pace of Summer days with school out! Hogan had his big fishing trip in the Outer Banks, C had nature camp, we had a weekend in the mountains with Grandma and Grandpa, the girls had a sleepover at Papa & JJ's, then we had fun museum days at Discovery Place Kids and Imaginon, and got out the water slide in the backyard.
And happy 11 months, B! He's almost walking, cutting new teeth, and transitioning to real milk in a sippy cup.
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| Painting at Grandma's. |
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| Off on a walk to see the site of our new house! |
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| Charley's mermaid. :) |
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| Leaving C's Kindergarten popsicle playdate. It had been a long time since she hung out with her friend Reese, but they ended up having a blast together and held hands the whole way out. |
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| Field day! |
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| EOY party. This girl can hula hoop! |
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| Exploring the new back yard. |
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| And there was even an "old lady cane," just like at our house. ;) |
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| Another tooth gone (lost it in a bite of chocolate!). |
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| Charley's self portrait and character traits (after a project Lily did at school). |
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| Charley picked out this astronaut and glow in the dark stars on her Charley-Grandma day at the Nature Museum. She said Lily would love it so much, and asked for one for her too. :) |
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| Last day of first grade!!! |
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| Bunny sighting! |
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| Surprised Lil for lunch on the last day like she wanted. |
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| Thank you for a wonderful year, Mrs. Person! |
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| Happy Birthday, Grandma! |
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| Off to Underwater Wonders camp at the Nature Museum. She loved it! |
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| Walking through SouthPark with C and she saw this dress and stopped and asked me to take a picture. "This is the dress I'm going to wear when I marry Pless!" |
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| Donut pitstop on the way to her playdate with Will. |
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| I put Baby Einstein on for B. I looked away for a second and when I looked back he'd put himself in his chair to watch. |
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| B's two favorite things. His xylophone and the remote. |
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| Another tooth gone! |
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| Ice cream with Papa & JJ. |
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| She worked so hard on her drawing of Mickey. |
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| The girls got a kick out of watching some of my old home movies from when I was a kid. This part was me at my cello lesson with Ms. Susan. Made Lily want to go get her cello. :) |
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| Happy Father's Day! (Daddy was enjoying his fishing trip in the Outer Banks.) |
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| And a front tooth is gone!! |
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| VBS. |
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| Charley showing off the sight words she learned to read! |
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| Happy 11 months, B! |
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| Lily wanted to write Charley a sweet note, wanted me and mom to do the same, then put them together with other "special things" for her. Charley came down the stairs and Lil sang "Happy Summer to you!" to the tune of Happy Birthday. Random, sweet sister thing to do. :) |
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| Lego exhibit at Discovery Place. |
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| She and Grandpa worked on this house for a LONG time and I honestly think she could have stayed for hours more. |
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| B's first time at DP... had to get a handprint pic. |
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| Haha. Came in to C"s room and she'd dressed up her monitor camera. |
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| Turn around for a second and... |
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| Hello mountains! |
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| Watching the horses next door. |
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| "Mountain toast." Aka PB toast with an m&m smile. |
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| Love this pic. |
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| First hike! |
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| Wild ponies on our hike. Saw a baby pony, too! |
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| Sister walk. |
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| Good morning, C. ;) |
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| The mountains agreed with B! |
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| We saw a healthy baby at our 12 week ultrasound! And we shared the news with the girls... |
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| Then we celebrated with Duck Donuts. Happy day! |
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| A full day at DPK. Play time, pizza across the street, and back for more play. B was a trooper. |
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| Hangin' on Pete the Cat's bus. |
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| Mr. Potato Head exhibit. |
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| Farm and horseback riding camp. The girls had a blast and begged to go back for more horse camp (and for cowgirl boots!). |
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| Here we go again!!! |
