Greek Festival

Yesterday, Uncle Sergio and I took the girls to the Greek Festival. We had gyros and Greek fries, they were so good! Beatrice got to jump in a bounce house and she got to go on some other bounce house like thing. She didn't care for the gyros but she loved watching the people and kids. She 'got' to use the port-a-pottie (yeah that was an adventure.) She didn't quite understand why it didn't flush. As we were walking out of the festival she announced that she needed to use the potty again. I really didn't want to walk all the way back to the potties and I asked her if she could hold it. I didn't really get an answer but I drove to the next town over, maybe like 20 mins away and we stopped at a Baskin and Robbins where she got to use the facilities and picked out a scoop of strawberry ice cream. It was kind of a surprise to me that she chose that. I'd just never gave her the option before, besides one other time at a yogurt place and she chose vanilla. Of course I had to explain to her that she wasn't getting a bowl of strawberries. She ate all of her ice cream and was somewhat well behaved. But it was an interesting day and I would totally go to the Greek fest again.

Millie's Milestones!

This has been a crazy week of milestones for Camille. She's now mastered getting into the sitting up position all by herself. She can sit up all by herself. She can clap and she's even crawled! (Not just her normal army scoot.) She's also determined to stand up. She's been pulling herself up while holding on to things and she doesn't just stop there at sitting on her knees. Oh no! She just stands up, taking some time and lots of thought of course. I've decided that her crib is not safe! She's already gotten her arm caught twice in the thing just tonight!

Millie

Tutu Tucson Pictures

The pictures are out of order but...

Here's Millie's second plane ride. I totally forgot to take pix on her first flight! I don't know what I was thinking!

Bea wanted to take this baby home. But I explained to her that it didn't belong to us.

She's such a good swaddler.

Millie getting sleepy...

Working the cash register.

Millie made the drum work with her heart beat through her hands.

Future vet??

Playing with the train set.

Making hand prints.

She's got the African beat down!

Coloring.

Playing scrabble with Tutu and Zachary.

Lunch with the cousins! Jayden, Zachary, Gracie and Bea. (Josh wasn't there yet.)

Tutu Tucson

Over the weekend we went to Tucson to visit our Arizona cousins! This was Bea and Camille's first trip out there and Camille's first plane flight. They were both perfect on the way over. On the way back was a bit of a different story. I know they were just irritable because they were both tired. It was a long day for everyone.

Our first day there it was fun to see the kids warm up to each other. Beatrice loved it! Saturday morning she woke up wondering if she would get to see her 'friends' again, she later started calling them her cousins, and she also wanted to wake Tutu up. Every morning she did that. It reminded me of when I was little and wanted to do the same thing.

Friday night the kids ended up in Tutu's room unattended and one of Camille's diapers got flushed down the toilet! It was the funniest thing. I walked in there to get something and Gracie says: 'We flushed one of Camille's diapers down the toilet and it worked.' I said: 'That's because it doesn't happen on the first flush, it happens on the second one.' That might have been the wrong thing to say because all the kids then ran to the toilet and flushed it again! They said that it still worked but I could see the water rising. It was so cute and it reminded me of all the shenanigans I got into with my cousins.

The kids had so much fun just playing, swimming, setting up a pretend store and playing boys against girls. One of my favorite memories is when Gracie was going to get her swim suit on and as she was walking down the hall she was saying: 'Tinkerbell is my favorite' (her suit had Tinkerbell on it.) Bea was fast on her heels, her little head down and she said: 'I like Tinkerbell too.' They both disappeared in Tutu's room and when they came out they both had their swim suits on. Grace had helped Bea get her suit on!

Sunday we went to the Children's Museum. The kids had so much fun. Bea loved the dinosaurs and shopping area. There was so much to do there that it was hard to pull the kids away from one section and move on to the other.

It was a lot of fun just to get away and just hang out. Thank you to my Arizona family for such a great time! I love you guys!

Big Changes

Well. As you may you know, I have been laid off. I feel it really has been a long time coming. (Those of you that know the whole back ground can see why.) Anyways. I'm not going to say it was my favorite place to work and I'm not going to say anything negative about it. It is what it is. So today is the first day of.... of what? Of being a stay at home mom? Of hitting the internet for job openings? I really don't know yet. I am just gonna cool it for a few weeks. So I can feel what I feel, try to get over things. Regroup, plan... we'll see. I feel very stuck right now. But I'm just gonna let myself be stuck for a while. Right now I'm going to enjoy the sweet faces of my girls and spending time with them.

Zoo

This morning we took the girls to the zoo with the Brantley's. It was a lot of fun and we left before it got too hot! Bea got to see a lot of animals. This was our first big outing with the whole potty training thing. We only had to pull over once on our way to the zoo, only to find out she didn't really have to go. :( Then we had to pull over again on our way to lunch, she did pee then! Izak took a lot of video footage and I only got maybe two pictures. Now we're trying to get the girls down for a nap. Not an easy feat.