A little updating

Well hello there blog, haven't seen you in awhile! Just a few tidbits until I can get some of our recent photos uploaded.


Can't believe we now have a 2 1/2 year old AND a 9-month old. Wow. Loving every minute with our two sweeties! We feel like the luckiest Mommy and Daddy in the world to have been blessed with Piper and Boone. May they always know that we love them to the ends of the earth and back...and then a little more!


We've been continuing with our weekly trips to the library and Piper continues to work towards maxing out our library card limit. I've had to start bringing a bag with a reinforced bottom to carry our load out the car! We got 18 books earlier in the week (and found out our limit is 20) and she's been having fun reading them all. Important to note, we checked out 18 books and had to put almost double that back! She also had me pick her up when we got to the check out counter and she very carefully watched the librarian scan each book and load it into our loot bag. So we'll keep going as long as she's having this much fun. I also got a few books for myself, as I'd exhausted my nighttime reading stash. So I'm also enjoying the fruits of our weekly excursion as well.


Piper and I also made our first batch of Mommy/Daughter chocolate chip cookies this week. She loves to help me make things in the kitchen and measuring cups are her specialty. She's the designated "ingredient dumper" and "mixer". She managed to taste each of the raw ingredients, including the flour and salt, afterwhich she made an emergency plea for her sippy cup full of milk. She plugged her ears during the mixing, exclaiming that the electric mixer was "jus too loud Mommy!". After we had mixed the butter, eggs and sugar, she took a look into the bowl and after examining the contents told me, "Mommy, I want sucker instead!". However, she changed her tune when it was time to add the chocolate chips and she perched herself in front of the oven window to watch the cookies bake and enjoyed the cookies warm out of the oven.


Boone is enjoying feeding himself, mostly puffs these days, those little hands of his are very busy. He's been teething for what feels like months now, with no signs of any teeth yet, so we gave him some biter biscuits to try this week. He grabbed the first one we gave him like he'd had dozens before and proceeded to cover himself in sticky, gooey, biscuit delight, while thoroughly enjoying himself. He cried when it was all gone, so we gave him another which he devoured just as quickly. He's getting more and more steady while sitting in his baby tub at night, so we're that much closer to our two sweeties taking their baths together-how fun!


He has also mastered the art of rolling towards whatever it is he wants. He can cross a room in a matter of minutes and get his hands on whatever the object of desire might be.


The weekend is finally here and hopefully I can post the latest shots of Pip and Boone very soon.

Fieldtrip!

Now that we're in the "heat" of the summer heat, it's been hard to make stops in the afternoon at the park on our way home. So, yesterday we made our first trip to the library and boy was it a hit! We had lots of air-conditioned fun!

Piper made her first stop at the kids' table and had fun with all the puzzles and magna-doodles set out. Next we made our way to the kids' books and once she got the hang of what we were doing, she started taking books off the shelf in stacks! We made a big pile on the floor and had a good time going through all the books. Piper narrowed it down to a smaller stack that we checked out. Since her final "loot bag" was a bit heavier than she anticipated, she put me in charge of carrying her stack out to the car, and she took care of pushing Boone's stroller to the car. Once we got home, she got right down to reading her books, I think they were each read at least two times before bed. This morning, after breakfast, I found her in her room, "reading" her new books.

Looking forward to going back again real soon!

No teeth yet, but Big Sis's toe sure is nice to chew on!

July 4th Fun and Happy 1st Birthday Blog!

Happy Birthday Blog!!!! One year ago, on July 4th, this blog was started and we're still going strong. Here's to another year...

This year we headed to Atlanta for the holiday weekend. It was one of Grammi and Fafa's last weekends living in downtown Atlanta, as they are moving to Lake Oconee in just a couple weeks. We'll be so glad to have them 1 1/2 hours closer to us very soon!

We got to Atlanta Friday afternoon and spent most of the rest of the day down at the pool. A friend of mine from high school, Mandy, and her girls, Katie, Sarah and Maggie came and hung out with us too. Piper's confidence in the pool continues and she had so much fun playing with everyone. Piper and Maggie both had a hard time with each other's names, however, "Hyper" and "Saggie" really had a good time together.


Friday night, Ger and I got to have a "date night", which was wonderful. Those are few and far between these days, and much appreciated! That night when Piper picked out her books before bed, she noticed a few books on side table, and settled on the Neiman Marcus catalog and a book about Toronto. Go figure.

Boone opted for a little snuggle time with Fafa. Not sure who enjoyed it more??

We put up some tall stools in front of the bed Piper slept in to keep her from falling out. We got a good giggle when I woke up Saturday morning and found her backwards sleeping on top of the stools set up next to her bed. Not sure how she managed that while asleep, but pretty impressive.

Saturday morning, we enjoyed watching a good portion of the 60,000+ people who ran the Peachtree Road Race walk past Grammi and Fafa's building on their way to the starting line. We opted for people watching in our pj's with coffee on the balcony in lieu of a 10k!

More July 4th Fun

After breakfast on Saturday, we headed out to the Georgia Acquarium. Piper had her first ride on MARTA.
Our first stop inside the acquarium, was a giant stuffed clownfish that looked just like "Cleo the Clownfish" in one of Piper's favorite books. She was so excited to get to touch it and get her picture with it.

Piper loved seeing all the fish, sharks, etc up close.

After the acquarium, we headed over the Centennial Park and Piper enjoyed playing in the fountains.

After all our adventures and a belly full of ice cream, Piper slept the whole way back!

Boone enjoyed a leisurely day with Grammi and Fafa and soaked up all the one-on-one time!

We hit the pool again, once we got back to Grammi and Fafa's.

Later that night, we got to see some spectacular firework from the top of Grammi and Fafa's building, which is right across the street from Lenox mall. We were glad to be high above the 350,000 people who came to watch from the mall parking lot.

And before we left, I took one last picture, a last shot with Grammi and Fafa at The Villa. Next time we visit, we'll head to Lake Oconee!