Sand pit and a swim

The thought of using the old, smaller, baby pool as a sand box was great... until it deflated and left us with essentially a sand pit in circular form. But Summer and Chase didn't seem to mind in the slightest. Chase thought the sand was just as yummy as if it was in a regular old sand box! After about the 50th "no eat. play" he seemed to do better. Hopefully he didn't ingest too much by then! Lexi and Skye seemed to have just as much fun as the babies.

It was nice to just strip them down and put them in the pool to get all that sand off! Chase seemed to like 'swimming' and Summer was really, kissy, kissy with her Sissy!

Flashback Fun

So it's not Flashback Friday but I'm flashing back anyway. I haven't had a chance to download pics from the weekend so here are a few pictures from last year at this time.



Here is a family picture from this time of year, 2006. It's one of the few times since Trey's joined the Marines that we were all together. Frankie and I are in the back, Brad and Skye are on the left and Trey and Lexi are on the right. This was 3 months before Frankie's accident.

Who doesn't love a bargain!

We have a really nice consignment store by the house, Once Upon a Child. If you hit it at the right time you can find some really nice clothes, toys at really great prices.

Lexi and I went last night. We hit a summer clothes clearance and that's what I had gone shopping for so we really lucked out.

My total bill was $28! Here is what I got.

3 Baby Gap dresses, with matching diaper covers
3 Gymboree one-pieces
2 Ralph Lauren dresses
2 Old Navy jeans
2 The Children's Place tops
2 Gymboree overalls
2 Circo tshirts
1 Laura Ashley dress with diaper cover
1 Baby Gap capris
1 Seafolly Girl bathing suit
1 Fisher Price melody push chime
1 lap harp (new in box, for Lexi)

The melody push chime new at Toys R Us is over $30 so it's like I got everything else for free!

Lexi loves the lap harp. I had one at her age I played with all the time. I called mine a 'zither' though, maybe they've just changed names, it's the same thing.

Walk this way

Chase took his first steps Saturday!!
He was playing with the VTech sit-to-stand activity walker. A few times this week, he'd pulled himself up to play with this from a stand, he'd plop down on his tush when he was done. Well Sat., he took a step with it and another and another and went all the way across the living room! He made it all the way to the couch until he couldn't go any further. He looked so proud of himself, he had the BIGGEST smile on his face! He also started bear crawling, walking on all fours, so he really is on his way to walking!!

Here he is crawling across the room to the toy bucket, pulling up, free standing and catching his balance.

Lounging, and sweating, by the pool

I guess I hadn't realized Summer (the season, not the baby) is full on here now! I decided Saturday was a good day, at 2:00 in the afternoon with high sun, to go out in the back yard and get the old blow up pool filled with play sand and get the new blow up pool set up. Wow! Won't make that mistake again for the next 3 months!

We all had a good time but man it was sooooooo darn hot!! We brought a few fans outside and got the stereo turned up. Skye helped me set the pool up and she and Frankie pumped it up with the leg pumper. Then she and Brad drug the sand bags from the garage and filled it with sand, I even got a few bags of green sand to liven things up a little bit. Of course it isn't until all the sand is in, we notice there is a slow leak and the pool is deflating! We'll get to that another day.

Lexi was on baby duty, walking Summer around the yard and letting Chase crawl in the grass. Erik was complaining of the heat and then took Brad and Skye up to the gas station to blow up the 2nd pool with the air compressor. The leg pumper was too much for that one! So we added water from the hose, which is ice cold, and assembly lined buckets of hot water from the kitchen sink. By now it had cooled off a few degrees so since the pool is in the shade we let the babies take a swim. Of course, Skye joined in.

Erik made a good point to let Summer's cut on her nose heal before letting them get in the sand so maybe we'll do that this weekend. Days like this make me wish we had an outdoor shower!

Time is just passing us by

I can't believe Summer is in a regular ol' car seat now! It seems like no time at all ago that I was putting the extra cusion around their necks so their heads wouldn't flop to the side in the infant seats. Time seems to fly by much faster when you have growing babies to guage things by.



Chase will get there too eventually. In the meantime, he's just going to have to be my little peanut. Dad called me "peanut" forever, come to think of it. I don't think I ever was a tiny little thing though so not sure why I was called "peanut", but it stuck.
I have a hockey stick and I'm not afraid to use it!