Cleaning

The girls, along with a neighbor, built this "house" out of pool floats and then decided to clean, with rags and water, everything in sight.This included my car, ahem, which had just been through the car wash for the first time in months and now has water spots all over it. But, hey, who am I to squelch a cleaning initiative. I just wish it could somehow carry through to the inside of the house. :)

Little Firefighter

Political Science?

I was surprised that the girls were so interested in the debates the other night. They sat through the whole first half until bedtime!

It's a....(Take 2)

Sweet

Bouncing

Baby

GIRL!!!

So Stephen remains the lone boy...at least for a while. ;) The girls are really excited! She was much more wiggly this morning...probably helped that I had my glucose test and had to drink a bunch of yucky sugar water before my appt. :)


This is a shot of her face (gotta love that "alien" look - profiles are much sweeter on ultrasound) and legs moving all around!

More fun birthday moments

The day began with Mass and RE, but when we returned, Allia picked French toast for lunch so we made some bacon and eggs and cut up some fruit for a yummy brunch! She opened her family gifts after lunch, and then we headed to the pool after naps.



The pool was much cooler than our last visit a few weeks ago but still tolerable and fun!




These two got a little two chilly and resorted to sunbathing!

Allia's Birthday Buddy

After the birthday dinner, our friends the R family went home and went into labor just in time to have their sweet baby boy on Allia's birthday. So we made a little trip to the hospital this evening to meet baby Max.






We both agreed when we left that he is totally sweet and really makes us want our new baby to come soon! :)

Birthday Dinner

We had a few families over last night for a September birthday dinner celebration. It was lots of fun for all ages. ;)

While the girls were outside playing, trying to pass the time until our friends arrived, a birthday balloon bouquet was delivered to Allia from Lito and Lita. She was very pleasantly surprised. :)


"Happy Birthday to you"




A little extra help blowing out the candles never hurts!


Stephen with his surrogate big sister (like he needs any more!?) Meha-Mine (Emmeline)






Andrew demoted the butterfly to a caterpillar






Look out everybody (especially the guy holding the rope which happened to be Daddy)!




In the end, the butterfly was decapitated, so Austin had to help shake the candy out of the body. :)









Didn't you know Austin's middle name is Bozo? He was in high demand making balloon animals, swords and hats, but the little ones kept taking theirs out into the grass and popping them!