Summer Times

From my phone:

Bagel Date.

Target Run.

Dancing with Friends.

 A Saturday trip to BG with the Gs... all 8 of us packed into one van!

Mamas got the front!  ;)

 

 There was one kid who slept the whole way home... guess who?!

 Sunday Snuggles with the girl.

Oh, their imagination.  I love, love, love it.  I know these days aren't forever.  

I so enjoy their imaginations.

Lily is inside an "egg" under the blanket and Peter is sitting on his egg.

 Lily hatched!  Peter is feeding her.  

 VBS at our church.

 Checking out the babies at a toy store.

 Writing Practice.

Memory. 

 Lily loves to put lots of hair bows on one strand of hair and then swing it.  :)

 Luke's Birthday Party at Build-a-Bear!

 I was super tired last week after coming back from NY and who knows what else.  It was our last week of swim lessons (5 total weeks for Peter, 4 total weeks for Lily! Whew. I can't imagine what swim team is going to be like!) and I went to the pool with 2 different flip flops on.  Embarrassing!

 So fun to use our van to capacity... we had neighbors and friends who played with us last week... lots of fun!

 Towel Tent!

 And another group of friends!! 

 And ice cream with friends who couldn't come to Lily's party!

More NY

I couldn't get something more exciting up quick enough after that last post.  

After working out some issues with the beloved Picasa, here we go.  More pics from our time over the 4th with Mike's (and now my) family.

Bennett is 4 mo older than Lily.  The two of them are sweet pals and really enjoy each other!

M&C have a really cool bike/walking path near them.  The "middle cousins" had fun on their balance bikes.

 Aunt Carrie had lots of fun treats for the kids... including these yummy OutShine popsicles.

 Brothers Diving!

 Brother and Sister Jumping!

 Goo/Gram has some magical powers with her reading.  

I loved this of her and her three boys.

 And two of the three girls...

 We joked that L&P were our little teen boys hiding out in the basement with the iPad.

 Ballet lessons from Aunt Carrie.

All of the cousins!

I think I posted this already but I think this is my all time favorite pic of Peter.  Its soo him.  The boy loves being silly and joking.  I think he takes after his Daddy.

forms

Just sayin'... If you can just check normal, it makes things a lot quicker.
It humors me that I've mentally noted this so many times that I have lots of pics of forms on my phone.  It must help me mentally to document the extensive forms.

Paperwork when you have a medical history takes a while.  And for heaven's sake, I can no longer remember every detail of my child's infancy, like when he "rolled over both ways" or "ate with a spoon" (and is that when he was willing or when I was willing) and I certainly don't know what to write for "In ONE sentence, how would you describe your child".  
We are going to a new OT place tomorrow.  I am very excited (for real).  But the paperwork most definitely does NOT excite me.

I am not complaining.  I am full aware of how good we have it.  But for the world to know, it should not be (and is not) taken for granted when you can just check normal and move on.