summer times

Jump jump

She learned to dive

Flip flip

Throw throw

Swimming with one floatie

So proud

Little fish

Beanie loves cutting grass with me

I can always head out to boggios and count on the girls having a blast.

"In summer, the song sings itself." ~William Carlos Williams

Pool rats

"No caption needed."  -Unknown

Ad on 2 wheels

Miss Ad couldn't be outdone by a big sissy....

She handled two wheels no problem....

 

"With humans, it is like the bicycle. Only when moving can we easily keep balanced." ~Albert Einstein

Second tooth gone for e

before....

during....

after....

if that during shot isn't the funniest pic you've seen, you need to share yours. daddy yanked the very loose second tooth out. e was of course a stud about it - despite that look. haha. she got to stay up late, ice it with a freeze pop and she wrote her tooth fairy another very curious letter. ;)

"A rustle in the wind reminds us a fairy is near." ~Author Unknown

Nails

girls and i went for mani's and pedi's....they barely fit on the chairs but enjoyed them thoroughly!

ad had to sit on another chair all together. little squirt.  ;)

elena wants to do this weekly....

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

July 4th

A little firework action on July 3rd...

A little flag and firework action for breakfast....

And a little pool party action for July 4th....

"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism." ~Erma Bombeck

Strong

e doing the splits in the middle of march....

and now just 3 1/2 months later....

miss e doing push ups with ad on her back.  she did 6 total.  real ones.  ;)  this is a girl that ain't messing around.

"I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles." ~Sam Snead, about golf

lemonade stand

First, a little play date at twisty freeze...

Then we teamed up together in our purple to have another lemonade stand for our friend, Lily.

 

"All it takes is one bloom of hope to make a spiritual garden." ~Terri Guillemets

Swim lessons

I tell them it's the one thing they HAVE to do, well besides school.....learn to swim.  Miss Adelyn has no desire whatsoever.  She loves to get in the water, play in the water and then gear all up for lessons, only to peter out and come up with every excuse imaginable to get out of it....

E is doing swimmingly (pun intended)....

 

"The water is your friend.  You don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move."  ~Aleksandr Popov

E's first lost tooth

elena's bottom right tooth has been wiggly for some time now.  she's walking around wiggling it with her tongue and it makes lovely squeaky sounds.  she has difficulty biting with her front teeth.  and she obsesses over it 24/7!  :)

we tried a few ways to get it out that were all on the safe side.  she definitely wanted it out, but wasn't willing to do anything drastic and frankly - neither was i!

one day as she was obsessing over it, i was looking at it again for the 100th time as she pleaded.  i noticed the tooth behind it was already up!  we just so happened to be going to the dentist the next day and i explained the dentist may just want to pull that tooth out since her permanent tooth already broke through. when we went to the dentist, the dentist actually just told her to keep working at it....que miss elena going ahead and asking for the dentist to just pull it out!  they yanked it right out and miss e was a happy camper!

sporting a new smile and a whopping $5 from her tooth fairy, tooth-e-taya!  the tooth fairies seem to have all gotten richer since i was losing teeth.  in fact one tooth fairy wanted to leave her $100!!!  thank goodness tooth-e-taya is her tooth fairy and reminded him that she is only 5 years old!!

"If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine." ~Author Unknown