up to?

what have we been up to? you may be wondering....Here's a brief re-cap of the last few weeks... Claire wiped out running on the pavement at a friend's house and got a rock embedded in her forehead. After some tugging, peroxide, & a prayer we finally got it out. She brought the rock to her last day of preschool for show & tell!

Tom put up a buoy swing for the kids and the girls have been loving it to say the least. It definitely attracts the neighbor kids! To really get the full affect, they need me (or Tom) to push them. A down side to it...or welcome distraction to the many things on my to-do list! Our patch of grass has gotten even smaller after the buoy swing addition. The path the kids run on is just a strip of dirt. Part of me thinks I should move the swing, the other part tells me the joy it brings outweighs the dirt!

All of us are enjoying lots of time outside. The girls planted their own garden and are awaiting the sprouts to pop up. One sunny day, Claire came running over and exclaimed, "Mom! I spilt the sunburn all over my pants!" Actually, she had spilled some sunscreen on her clothes :)

Thomas sits up completely on his own now and has just started scooting across the floor...backwards. He continues to love laughing & anyone's attention! The drools are plentiful these days as are the rolls on his thighs! The girls seem to never tire of him. Today, when Claire got home from being with a friend all day she said, "I didn't miss you even a little mom. I just missed Thomas!"