Pool Fun

Today we had a lot of fun at a friend's pool. Lucy has not been in a pool since we were at the beach, so I didn't know what she was going to think. She was a little scared at first, but then she remembered how the floaties work and she was off. She would say to me, "I do it momma. I swimmin." Okay. I just stood back and took a zillion pictures. Our friend Liz was there with her two girls - Taylor, who is 2, and Reece, who is 4 months. Lucy LOVED Reece. She is obsessed with babies right now. She kept saying, "Baby, Woo Cee's lap." So I would help her hold the baby. Whenever Reece made any noise, Lucy would run over and make sure she had her paci. She was really so sweet with the baby. It is so fun to take pictures of other people's kids since I am mostly only used to Lucy. It is also fun for the post processing. Thanks for so much fun today girls!

I think I have figured out the whole bed time thing and we have had 2 naps and 2 night times with no tears, no fuss, just calmly going to sleep. Every night before bed I tell Lucy we are going to brush her teeth, pick out 2-3 books, sing a few songs, kiss night night and then I am going to my room to go to bed. This has always worked just fine, but recently she has wanted us to stay in her room forever. She would not go to bed with us in there and she would freak out whenever we tried to leave. Even if we stayed long enough for her to fall asleep while we were in her room, she was waking up when we tried to leave. So, I tried something. After our normal routine, I give her one of her small books to read to herself while I leave. She is perfectly happy with this and makes no fuss at all. When she is done, she tosses it on the floor and passes out. Works for me, works for her, sounds like a plan. I love to go in and check on her now that she is sleeping in the big girl bed. She looks so small in there.

Big plans for tomorrow - THE CIRCUS!!! I can't wait. I think I am more excited than anyone, but Lucy does talk about it a lot. For some reason, she thought flamingos were at the circus. Whenever I mention the circus, she would say, "El-phant and mingos!" I didn't want her to be disappointed, so I have told her that there are not flamingos at the circus. So now she says, "Cir-tus, el-phant, no mingos!" She cracks me up.

Here are pics from the pool today. They all got a cup of ice cream and those are my favorite pictures. They were all so serious and quiet while they were working on their ice cream. Lucy loved to feed Kori's chihuahua, Moose, her ice cream. She would let Moose lick her spoon and then she would eat a big bite. Yuck, but whatever. Moose was so happy to get some ice cream that I couldn't make her stop.


Reece - the world's sweetest baby. She was so fun to love on!

My new favorite person to take pictures of - R would look at the camera whenever I said her name and smile. Who knew 2 year olds willingly did this?? It takes A LOT of work for me to get Lucy to look and she never wants to smile.


Aren't they cute?




Keeping a watchful eye on Reece.