Minnow

In the car

William: Let's play a game! A!

Amelia: B!

W: C!

A:D!

(game continues)

William: K!
Amelia: Minnow! (MNO)

I'm still giggling

Milestone

Amelia put her clothes on all by herself on 8/10/11! Hurray for such a big girl!

Cookies

It has been so hot for so long. I'm totally at a loss for entertaining the kids day in and day out. I'm ready for some cooler weather! The other day I decided to make play dough with the kids....until I realized we were missing a few of the key ingredients. But, the kids were excited about helping in the kitchen. So, we were forced to bake cookies! The kids were overjoyed!

Copycat

William thought these tractor tire glasses were hilarious. They kind of were. Even more hilarious was amelia's copycat glasses.

Peach cobbler

We made this last month from my mom's impressive recipe collection. She allowed me to take all her recipes as long as I reported back if they were good. I don't know how you can go wrong with fresh peaches from the farmer's market. It was yummy and all four of us enjoyed it!

Williams bed

Here is daddy working in building a headboard for William's new bed

Swimming!

We have been running all over the place these last few weeks. I'm not sure how long I can keep up this pace! We've been swimming, to the gym, to the library, and meetings almost every night. We're also working on refinishing a bedroom set for William's room almost every night when the kids go to bed. I'm seriously missing my quality time with my couch.

Anyway, I wanted to record this big milestone: WILLIAM IS SWIMMING! Honest to goodness kicking and scooping, face in the water swimming. He ( and mom and dad, too) has worked so hard and come so far from the kid who hated water! At 18 months, we went through a phase where there couldn't even be any water in the tub. He would just scream and scream. I got a little teary eyed tonight watching my big (little) guy swim half way across the pool on his own. I wish I had a picture to show you, but we had TWO dead camera batteries in the camera case tonight. We still have a few days left, hopefully one of us can catch it on film.

SO PROUD!