Cousin visits!

We have been lucky to have some visits by Hannah and Laurelei in the past few weeks! Hannah joined us at the wading pool, which has been a summer favorite!


Laurelei and Cyndy were in town for a wedding, so they stopped by to visit for the morning! It was great to see them, and finally show them where we live! Hard to get to MN when you live in AZ! (Serious about fruit snacks!)

Thomas Bed

My cousin Dawn gave us a bunch of clothes and stuff for Cael, now that their son Ryan has outgrown all of that. Cael's favorite thing they gave him...you guessed it!

Kiera

She has been moving nonstop, and tries to keep up with Cael. It is fun to watch how the two of them interact...for the most part pretty well. Let's just say that Kiera isn't big enough to know that when Cael takes a toy from her, she can say something about it. (Challenging times ahead!)

Like Cael, she loves to swing!


She helps us mow the lawn! (And will try to eat it too!)


She falls asleep in the strangest positions!


Sitting in the back of the Santa Fe before picking Raspberries with Poska's

Cael

Loves going on bike rides with Jonathan and biking on his own! He loves to wear his helmet, and proud mommy moment when Cael requests to get his helmet so he can ride his bike...what a good kid!



Jonathan and Cael usually go biking to a park...Cael loves to swing, and climb the slides!

Where did summer go!

I know...surprised I am back, huh? I know...I have been horrible updating this summer! Just when I think we aren't going to have a very busy summer, the weekends fill up, weekday evenings are busy, and I will be honest...I am just plain exhausted at the end of the days to update the blog!! I promise I will try to do better from here on out!! (And you can hold me to it!!)

Update on both the kiddos...

Cael is a active 2 1/2 year old, wanting to be more independent than the day before. Constantly "I do it by myself; no, mommy, I can do it; don't help me mommy", etc. He did have a bout of sickness a couple weeks ago, with a fever of 103.5 when I picked him up at daycare, and it fluctuating between 102-103 for about 36 hours before the careline told me to bring him in. He was found to have croup. It took about a week after before he appeared back to himself again. (That was a LONG week!)

Kiera is crawling everywhere, and she is getting really quick! She is drawn towards everything she is not supposed to get into (ie cords, outlets, etc). We do have cords put away and outlets covered, so don't worry! We had her 9 month check up last week (I know...already?) and she is 21 lb, 28 inches, and healthy! When Cael was sick, she did have a little cough but somehow she missed the fever!

Pictures with stories to come soon...I promise!!