August 18-24

Marilee is ready for FB season!

Adam had the day off and we had a crazy busy day, but we stopped by bass pro to show the kids the fish and stuffed animals.   Nothing like free entertainment!

The LOVED hopping in all the tents!

We also took Marilee to see a surgeon on Friday.  We scheduled her for a G-tube on September 19.  Unless some crazy miracle happens and she decides to eat before then!

We had awesome weather last week and could play outside for a long time!  

Check the stance!  Grip, not so great, but otherwise!  Woohoo!

Adella LOVED jumping in the teeny tiny puddle

But once they discovered how much fun it was to scoop rocks, they really had a blast!

A RARE pic of all three in the same pic looking and smiling!

And then the garbage truck came by, so that was fun!

And just because....

After church they both put on hats and were running around the house yelling "TO THE RESCUE!" Not sure what they were rescuing!

At Nora's this week they played with water beads, Charlie was not a fan!

He had more fun with actual water I think!

August 11-17

Sorry a bit behind!  

Charlie is super sweet with Marilee, we caught him laying on the floor next to her just chatting away!

I saved up toilet paper tubes and built a car ramp.   It was a success!   

This picture does not acuratly portray what is going on here.  Adella, Charlie and Nora are right there in front listening to the story during story time.   But miss Nora had just reached up and put her arm randomly around Charlie.  Didn't phase either a bit... then she started playing with his hair.  Laurel and I were cracking up! 

Official!  I got my Jamberry starter kit!   I had so much fun finally being able to prep and put everything together! 

Adella pushing around this cart reminded me of a homeless person stuffed with all their possessions.

On stage again for kids club!

We had some AWESOME rain and Charlie and Adella had fun watching!

We started trying to give Marilee some food occassinally, she is not so adverse that she won't put stuff in her mouth, in fact she's grown rather into trying to suck her hands or stick other stuff in, but she won't suck a bottle still and gags if any milk goes down.  Not sure if she actually swallowed the apple sauce or if she just let it dissolve on down. 

Owie came to dinner and sat next to Charlie on his thrown.

They had tons of fun playing bubbles over at Nora's house!

August 4-10

Kids club was a little crazy this week, it was pretty much all singing and dancing - LOUDLY!  But I was so proud of these two that got up and joined in the Ant's go marching, all the way around the audience!  Charlie looks unhappy, but I think he had fun :) 

We talked about scriptures for FHE and even learned the song Scripture Power!  They loved it!  Charlie of course had to go looking for 'the big fish' in the scriptures.  Daddy had to help him, but he found it! 

Marilee didn't sleep much for a few days, and I was worried naps were a thing of the past!  But this day I could not keep her awake! 

We had a $25 gift card to a Chinese restaurant that we finally redeemed.  First time taking all 3 kids out I think!  Our kids are pretty well behaved though and had fun!  The food was actually really good too!

I pulled out the splash pad.  They enjoyed it a bit more than last year, though it still was not the 'hit' I was hoping for!  The funny thing is, they are wearing the exact same suits as last year too, and Charlie's shorts are still too big!

This girl keeps us sooo happy!  I mean really, we've never seen a happier baby!  She loves to smile at us and she just lights up our day!

We've been playing a lot with Nora lately, we even went shopping together, Nora was teasing Charlie and he was being a pretty good sport about it!   Future romance????

Painting at Nora's house-first time!

Playing in the water at Nora's

And some sensory play - my kids have issues getting dirty usually, we are working on it!