So very proud...

Our little ballerina was so amazing in her performance on Wednesday night! She performed a ballet with her preschool ballet class and did such a wonderful job! She remembered all of her steps and was so adorable! We're so proud of her!

Bubblicious

There has finally been a sliver of sunshine after a couple of weeks of gloom...As always, it seems Summer is dragging its feet! I am giddy with anticipation for Emma's summer break from school...I miss her so much and can't wait to have her home! She only goes twice a week for 3 hours, and I'm there with her often, but it will be nice to have some lazy mornings at home...provided the girls sleep past 6am. Yesterday morning, they both got up at 6, and I did three loads of laundry, fed them breakfast, bathed them both, swept and vacuumed the floors, and had to be at Costco by 10am. I looked at the clock thinking it was time to go and it was only 7:58! I'm starting to love all the time we have in the mornings with our little alarm clocks getting up an hour earlier than they used to!

Happy Birthday Lewis! Lewis turned 34 yesterday. He wanted "a LOT" of sushi for dinner. So I made A LOT of sushi...enough for dinner tonight, too!

Our little girls both love bubbles...Kaia goes up to Emma and makes "blowing" faces and raspberries whenever she has bubbles out. When Emma kindly shares the wand, however, Kaia just puts it in her mouth. Here are some recent shots of various things...

Sunshine and Summertime

It's been so gorgeous here lately...and the girls have been loving splashing in the kiddie pool! Here are some new pictures---the one of Kaia and Mama was taken by Emma! She does such a good job with the camera!

Baby Steps!!

Little Mama

Recently, Emma Grace has been playing "Mama", having different animal babies that she's PRYG-NANT with (Praig-nant? Prayg-nant? She says it with an interesting accent), then she has the baby, says, "Look, Mama, it's Newborn!" and pushes it around in the stroller. She doesn't let Kaia play with the newborn babies, she says, "No, Kaia, this baby is newborn, it's too little to be played with". It's pretty cute.

A Decade?

Last weekend we did a bicycle "race" as a family...there are options of up to 100 miles, and we selected the equally challenging and honorable 10-mile family ride. (The 100 mile is a century, so did we do a "decade"?) Emma Grace rode her own bike with training wheels part of the way (and as is so en vogue, wore her fluffy pink princess dress as well!). Kaia rode in our bike trailer, and Em joined her for much of the ride. When we first took off, Em rode in the trailer because there were lots of people and the space was small...and she peeked out behind her and shouted "We're WINNING!!". We explained it was a ride for fun, but she loved that "winning" feeling! Kaia B had an orange wedge at the rest break area, and she was enjoying it so much, we let her have it in the trailer. When we finished the ride, she had eaten ALL of the orange, ALL of the pith, and much of the peel, and was covered in fragrant, sticky orange oil and juice! She was a happy baby.

Dim Bulb

Mr. Funny (the goat) is turning out to be a bit of a dim bulb. He has a propensity for getting his head stuck in things. So far it's just been the fence or the gate...but yesterday he somehow got his head stuck in his (and Scuttle's) food bucket. He managed to slip the bucket off his head and around his neck, where it stayed until Lewis and I stopped laughing!