Love it!

How cute is this? Avery (17 months) and Paige (20 minths). LOVE IT!!

Yum!

Gotta love popsicles in the summer!

Staying cool

We have had the hottest two weeks I can remember in Florida. The heat index has been above 100 degrees and it is insane! To get a break from the heat we decided to go swimming Sunday afternoon. Avery has been taking swim lessons the past couple of weeks and we needed to work on her swimming on the noodle on her own. As you can see in the pictures below Adam finally got her to be brave enough to let go. A HUGE step for her! While that was a great accomplishment, swimming was NOT a good way to cool off yesterday. The pool water was hotter then the air outside!! It might as well have been a hot tub. Thankfully the weather folks are saying that we will have a cool down in the next couple of days and the high will only be 92. Yeah!

Avery's first sleepover - no sleeping required

Avery's best friend, (or BFF as she says it) Kennedy spent Friday night at our house for their first official sleepover. What a night we had! It started off with pizza of course and also included a movie - Aladin. Then it was off to bed - or so I thought! I now know why their pre-school teacher would not let them go to the bathroom together. They are little chatter boxes. Who would have thought they would have so much to talk about at four years old? It was about 11:30pm before they finally went to sleep. Either that or I fell asleep and just couldn't hear them talking anymore. Saturday morning they were up with the sun and played dress up most of the morning. I kept having flashbacks to when I was younger and all the fun sleepovers I had with my friends. I'm certain the girls had a great time together and I hope they will be friends for life. I see many more sleepless sleepovers in our future!

Paige was a little bit of a tag-a-long but the girls didn't seem to mind too much.
In pajamas, watching Aladin.
The following day they were learning dance moves from Avery's princess sing-a-long DVD, in high heels of course!

Cracker Barrel

On their last day with us the grandparents treated us to breakfast at Cracker Barrel. Unfortunately, Mamaw was sick and missed out but it was delicious! Of course we also had to spend some time rocking and playing checkers on the front porch.

Family Fun Center

We happened to have quite a heat wave this past week while the grandparents were visiting from Maine. It was way to hot for me to handle so I can assume it was quite a shock to them coming from what I refer to as the frozen tundra. This meant that we had to find things to do that were indoors during their visit. We went to the library, the mall, the movies and Family Fun Center. The girsl had a great time climbing on the play equipmnt and playing in the balls.

Paige was a little cautious at first but once she got the hang of it she loved jumping on the bouncy mat.
Where's Avery?

Daddy and Paige having some climbing fun.

Happy Birthday Gram!

Gimper, Mamaw, Grammie and Grampie flew down for a visit last week and they day they arrived also happened to be Gram's birthday. We surprised her with a cake and we all had a great time singing to her and celebrating her birthday.

Play ball

Unlike Avery (and much to Adam's delight) Paige loves to play catch with Daddy. She is always picking up her ball and glove and asking Daddy to play with her. She has the throwing part down real good so now we are working on the catching. I see many softball games in our future!