Belf Updates

It has been SOOO hot here lately that I don't want to take the girls anywhere unless it's to the pool. I feel bad running errands with the girls because it is so hot when we get back in the car and those little car seat buckles get hot really fast!! If we even walk outside, Hannah says, "Mommy it is too hot out here...we need to get inside!" Yesterday I made myself get them out to go to the grocery store and the car said 107 when we were on our way home! Ridiculous!! Anyway, here's some of what we've been doing to stay busy inside.

This little sweet pea is all over the place and into everything! She loves taking things out of buckets and dropping them back in. I think she is trying to cut several teeth. Her 3rd bottom tooth came through last week, but we still don't have any on the top. I think she's working on a few because she has been very clingy and that usually means her little gums hurt. I have learned to do everything with just one hand because she is usually in my arms. And I think she's probably the heaviest baby I've EVER held! My arm muscles will be ready for the UFC Championships by her 1st birthday!! She is soaking everything up and is really starting to "talk" quite a bit. Her "words" right now are: mama (mommy and elmo), dada, ssss (Hannah or sister), wawa followed by woof (Wally), baba (bottle), bebe (baby) ba (bath), boo (book),

hhh (hi), baa (ball), mmmm (cow), mo (more), nene (necklace), aga (again), aba (abracadabra)

Hannah is really into building castles and making sure that her baby sister doesn't knock them over which often causes problems!! She is still so sweet to Alice Anne! Alice Anne has started really wanting to play and interact with Hannah and be wherever Hannah is. Sometimes Hannah wants her space and wants to just play big girl play, and she's getting creative with how she tells Alice Anne to leave her alone. If Alice Anne tries to come in the playhouse when Hannah is trying to "cook," Hannah says, "Alice Anne, you can't come in here. The oven is too hot and it will burn you!" Or if Alice Anne tries to take a toy that Hannah wants, Hannah will say, "Alice Anne, you can't play with that, you're just a baby and you might choke on it!" It's really funny because it's usually something that's bigger than Alice Anne's head! I've told Hannah several times that if there's a special toy that she doesn't want Alice Anne to play with that she needs to put it away where Alice Anne can't see it, otherwise, all of the toys out are for both girls. Hannah takes this rule to the extreme...she will find any sort of cubby and hide every single toy that will fit in there. It's really funny. And the funniest part is that she does it all as if she's doing it for Alice Anne's own good!!

I took the girls over to Uncle Les' house last week for a swim. They both had a blast and Hannah is still talking about swimming with Uncle Les!



Alice Anne wants to be big SO bad!! Every time the big kids get in the bounce house, Alice Anne really wants to join them!


Hannah sitting in the study making her "grocery list"

She said it was so hot outside that she needed to bring some of her herbs inside to cool off. She picked a bunch of her herbs, "planted" them in a bucket, "watered" them with a water bottle and then put them on the window sill.
This is what you look like when daddy gets you "dressed." It's hard to see in this picture, but her panties are on wrong side out and one of the leg holes is around her waist and the tag is in the front at the bottom of the left leg. She has 2 different color crocs on, both of them are right foot shoes and the pink one is a tiny one that was too small for her LAST summer!! Of course no real clothes!! She really looked too funny to not get a picture of it!

A couple of pictures of our sea shell projects. We had SO many sea shells from our trip that we didn't know what to do with them. We made a wind chime with a lot of them. Daddy did an awesome job!! He had to drill holes in every single sea shell and of course, since daddy was helping with it, we weren't going to skimp...we were going to make the biggest wind chime EVER! Hannah thinks it's really cool!!

We still had some more left, so we made a little box for "rings"...at Hannah's request.