Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day out there to every Dad! Hope you all enjoyed your special day. I had the pleasure of spending the day with the two men I love the most, my Dad and my husband. You are two special men in my life. Thank you for all that you do and for being you; great husbands and wonderful Daddy's!!

I have lots of pictures to post and news of our busy weekend. I will try to post tomorrow but need to catch up on some sleep since our youngest has decided it is FUN to wake up real early!!

I had to post a sweet picture of Rob and his sweet girls...lots to comment on for this one photo though :-)

We just got home from the pool so don't mind Taylor's crazy hair; Caroline was about to go to bed so she was in her jammies, and sorry to Rob as this was the best picture I was able to capture and YES I do know that the top of your head is cut off in this picture...sorry!

Taylor started her first extracurricular activity last night; dance class for 3-5 year olds at Nan’s School of Dance! (Since she will be three in August we were able to slide her in the class.) She has been talking about this dance class for a couple of months and was super excited about it!
At the studio, all the girls go into the room with just the instructor, Mrs. Angela and then the parents can watch from the lobby. There is a small window to peek in on them and then there are TV’s to watch them as well. From what I could see she did so well and looked adorable. She did everything the teacher was doing and even seemed to listen too! All the girls were just precious in their leotards and tutu’s moving all around the room.
As Taylor was getting ready for bed last night she showed me some of her “new moves” that she learned at dance. I REALLY wish I had the video camera on. She is so funny and just loves to dance. She was twisting, shaking and moving her little booty…however I don’t recall Mrs. Angela at Nan’s teaching these dance moves. :-)

I was able to get one shot before Mrs. Angela closed the door to start class.

Since I didn't get many pictures at the studio, Rob took some once we got home...

I can't leave Caroline out of the picture taking, so Rob caught one of us too.

Eating table food?!

I can hardly believe that Caroline is already ready for table food!
The week she turned 9 months old we started by giving her a banana but I am not sure she really enjoyed it. I think it is a texture thing that she is just not used to as she would continuously gag on the banana. Next we tried peas and carrots and she loved them! We are starting to expand her menu options. She has done well with carrots, green beans, peas, peaches, Gerber ravioli, and the Gerber dried fruit is one of her favorites.
A little update on her new moves too…She is definitely busy! She crawls all over the place (although she does still enjoy for Mommy to pick her up all the time!) and is pulling up a lot too. Her favorite thing to do is stand and walk with someone holding her hands. She gets so excited and really just wants to walk to get into everything. Soon enough we will be chasing Taylor AND Caroline!

Dinner time on Tuesday night...From this facial expression I think Caroline would prefer that I give her more food rather than just take her picture.

Almost got it...

Score!

Now she is a happy girl.

Saturday night fun

On Saturday night we had Chris and Brooke over for a cookout with their two year old son Quinn. Quinn is one of the cutest little boys I know and is super sweet! It only took a few minutes for Quinn and Taylor to warm up to one another and by the end of the night it wasn’t an easy task to separate them and stop all the fun. They were on the go the whole night! After dinner they played hide and seek, chased each around the house and then ended the night outside running up and down the driveway with a shopping cart and a dump truck. They had a blast and it was so funny and cute to watch them. We all can’t wait to see the Kelly’s again!

Check out Taylor and her high heels and short shorts! She is going to be trouble. I am impressed how well she walks in her "dress up" heels; well she actually runs really well in them too!!

Watch out, here they come!

We got them to sit still for a minute.

Sing it Taylor!Not sure if Quinn is too impressed with her vocals.

Memorial Day 2009

First of all we must say a BIG THANK YOU to all the men and women who serve our country. We are so grateful for you and all that you do! We hope you enjoyed this special day in your honor.
We had a great Memorial Day! It was the best feeling waking up this Monday morning and not having to rush around to get the kids to daycare and ourselves to work! Since the weather decided to cooperate, after lunch the girls and I met Grammy for an afternoon of fun in the sun. We packed up and headed out to the pool for a couple of hours. Taylor had a blast splashing around and going down the water slide...over and over again! The water was VERY cold so Caroline didn't splash around too much. She loved every minute though as Grammy held and played with her most of the time and I chased Taylor around. I think our day totally wore both girls out as I had them both asleep tonight by 7:15?!!!

I forgot to take the camera to the pool but Rob wanted to get a couple of shots of the girls in their bathing suits before we left. Taylor had just "pooped" in the potty and she was rewarded with this lollipop. YEAH Taylor!! She did great this weekend with hardly any accidents and I am keeping my fingers crossed she keeps it up this go round :-)

{You may remember a post several months ago where I said Taylor was doing so well potty training? Well that was right after Caroline was born. Taylor did really well there at the beginning but guess she regressed after the baby came along. We are trying this again and hoping it goes better! So far so good! She definitely enjoys all the incentives of going potty!}

Caroline seems really interested in that lollipop but don't think Taylor will be sharing!When we got back from the pool Mr. Dennis, our neighbor and his boys (Luke and Grant) were over hanging out with Rob. Dennis and his wife Layne are always so good to our girls. Taylor and Caroline are always really excited to see them and we are lucky to have such great neighbors!

Right before bath and bed, Rob captured story time with Taylor and Mommy. Taylor still loves books. She is always asking us to read to her and sometimes she will try to read us a story too...that is always so cute!

Ice Cream Sunday!

We had a fabulous family filled weekend. On Sunday morning we went to church and breakfast with Grammy and PawPaw. Then later that afternoon we decided to treat Taylor with some yummy Ben and Jerry's ice cream. She decided that she wanted "white ice cream with colored sprinkles on top!" That is just what she got, except I was a little sneaky and ordered her vanilla frozen yogurt instead. She loved it to say the least!
We didn't give Caroline any this trip although I am sure she would have loved it too!

So...

Guess who crawled to me this morning?! CAROLINE!!!
I went in to get her out of the crib this morning and like normal she was so happy, smiling and kicking her feet in excitement. I stood at the opposite end of her crib and she just crawled right to me like she had been doing it forever.