Okay, so I said I wouldn't be very good at this, so you can't get mad at me for not writing more often. My little girls know how to make me smile without even trying. Last night, we put the kids in bed and left them alone until we were ready to go to bed. That's not an unusual thing to do, right? Well, when Travis and I went in to check on them, we found Abby curled up in Kaity's bed with her body stuffed under the pillow for a blanket, and Kaity was fast asleep as if if didn't bother her. I couldn't believe it! Kaity usually hates it when Abby tries to sleep in her bed. The best part.... we picked up the pillow to move Abby over to her own bed, and there was a bare bottom peeking back up at us! She wants to be so much like her sister that she thinks she doesn't need to have a diaper anymore either. When we left the room, Travis and I just busted up laughing. At least we were lucky enough that she didn't wet Kaity's bed!
Kaity loves to pretend like she's scared and I was lucky enough to get a picture of her doing it!
And, of course, Abby HAD to get her picture taken, since I had taken one of Kaity!
Travis' sister, Stacy, came to visit us last weekend along with her husband, Clay, and their four month old daughter Evie. We had a great time with them! We went out to a pond on base and rented some paddle boats. We were kind of bored with it at first.....then we had our water fight!! We were all totally soaked by the time we got out. Abby was the worst. But that's only because my poor little clumsy child leaned too far over the edge and went head first into the water! Luckily, we were all in life jackets, and Travis caught her pretty quickly, so she didn't go all the way in! She wasn't very happy about her little splash and stayed in her seat for most of the rest of the time we were out.
Recently, we visited our local zoo. As you can tell by the picture, it wasn't exactly the most exciting zoo we've ever been to. The girls were super tired and it was the hottest, stickiest day we've had. The thing that was exciting was that Kaity didn't have a single accident the entire time we were there. We made it to the potty in time every time. Unfortunately, the drive home was more than an hour, so we didn't make it all the way home in dry pants, but we sure were proud of her progress!
Last night, we went out to get a movie for Travis and I to watch after the girls were in bed. When we got home, I got out of the car and saw this poor little baby bird sitting under Travis' car. We just happened to have a bunch of worms from a recent fishing trip so Travis said we sould bring him inside so he wouldn't die. We got him to eat two worms and drink some water. After that, he kept running under the "bedding" we had set up for him in a box and trying to hide..... or go to sleep, we weren't really sure. Well, we ended up putting him back outside under a bush so that it was less likely he'd get run over by a car, or a mower! I looked out there this morning and he was nowhere to be found, so I hope he's okay. I don't think there's much more we could have done for him. There are three or four bird's nests in our carport, so we didn't know which one the baby belonged to. It could have been bad if we put him in the wrong one, just to get pushed back out by the wrong momma bird. So I hope we did the right thing!
I don't know how many of you know, but Abby is the clumsiest child I know! She is always falling down. I truly believe she trips over air when it's sticky and humid out. Well, it's hard to see in this picture, but she has fallen, yet again! This time, she hit her face on the metal frame of the futon. Smacked it just above the eye! There's a little cut where it was bleeding and it was purple for about an hour. I was afraid her eye was gonna be swollen shut. It turned out to not be as bad as I was afraid. She loves to run and play and tries very hard to keep up with her sister. Now, if we could just figure out a way to get her to stop falling!
