Daddy's Girl

This little girl loves her daddy so much. This has become her new "nest." She loves to fall asleep just like this.

Happy Birthday Bestie

Today is my best friend's big 3-0. Happy birthday Megs :)

Burst of Energy

All of a sudden I got a huge burst of energy. I finally convinced Ellie that she should share her room with Madelyn, and then turn our computer room into a playroom. She was actually pretty excited about the idea of sharing her room. Bob and myself were not so excited about cleaning the spare room out. But we finally did it. I did not realize how much stuff we had in there. It is a good thing that we have the garage.

Today we painted the room Ellie's choice color-light purple. It turned out beautiful. We also got some princess stickers to stick on the wall. We got all of the toys moved in and it looks great. Ellie has so much room to play, and I don't have to walk over toys to get in and our of Ellie's room.

Now to move on to Ellie's bedroom and to move Maddie in.

Visitor

We have a new visitor that has been hanging around the house. Ellie calls it (don't want to get close enough to tell if male or female) "lucky." It is lucky that her Daddy is letting it hang around.

My Little Cowgirl

All ready for the fair.

Visit with the Justice's

I have not really seen my work bestie since she left on maternity leave in March. I have really missed her. We finally were able to work our schedules out to spend some time together this afternoon. Maddie and Caroline were so cute together. They would just stare and watch each other so closely. Ellie loves playing with Ally and Em-and they are so good with her.

Caroline and Maddie playing

Ellie insisted on swinging Ally

Our girls

Things That Annoy Me

I like things to be in order and in place. At the end of the school year I knew that there would be a possibility that I may switch rooms, but no one was certain-so I did not want to spend time packing just to unpack in the same room. This morning I got a call from another teacher asking me when I would be able to get all my stuff out of my room. WHAT!? Not only did he tell me that we were switching rooms, but also half of my stuff was already moved to another room (which happened to be the wrong room). This really stressed me out, especially since most of my stuff was bought with my personal money. So thankfully mom was not busy so that I could go to school and see what was where and what was left to be moved.

By the time I got to school, the custodians (who I really like and get along with) had neatly moved all my stuff into my new room. Which meant that I only had to move the stuff in my cabinets. Double yikes, those things are full.

I was so overwhelmed when I got there that I just left. Bob came back with me later to help move everything into my new room.

I do not like being negative at all-so here is something that makes me smile. Ellie keeps asking when Maddie will be big enough to share a bed with her. After I got home we all came in to take a nap (something that has become a normal afternoon routine). Here are the two girls "sharing a bed." Ellie finally decided that she is on board with moving her toys into the spare room and she and Maddie sharing a bedroom. My goal is to get Maddie and her baby bed out of our room before school starts back up.

4th Weekend

Shew, what a long weekend. We have been so busy all weekend long with fourth activities. I feel bad because we could not make them all. Ellie really loves fireworks, and she was so excited to go several places to enjoy them.

Bob started off Saturday working in the garage. Ellie and I enjoyed the sunshine and water play

Nap time was fun with my cuties

Meghan invited us over to her and Josh's house for a small get together and fireworks on Sunday. This was probably one of the first times Maddie actually got to swim. She LOVED it.

Tried several times to catch a picture of all of us girls

As soon as the all the guys got in to swim, of course, a large thunderstorm rolled up. Lighting fireworks in the rain was nice. :)

Bob playing with the girls

Today we went to my Aunt Gina's for a little visit, then headed to my Aunt Kendra's for food and fireworks. The girls loved the fireworks and hanging out with their cousins.

Jumping on the trampoline with Matt

Maddie and Nanny time

Such a cute smile, to bad it is side ways

Ellie and Aunt Shannon

IUSWP

Another IUSWP year has ended. It is hard to believe that I have been involved in WP for the last five years. I get so pumped and ready for the school year at the end of each June. I always have tons of ideas that I can not wait to use in the classroom. Here are a few pictures from celebration night-tonight.

Today was a big day for Maddie. Tooth number two broke through and she has finally mastered crawling. She was so cute when she started attempting to crawl. She would push up on all fours and then lunge forward to get where she wanted to go. She also learned how to go from her stomach to a sitting position. This little girl has so much upper bottom strength-where Ellie was the opposite having a lot of leg strength.

Smiling Girls

Love this smile

Mommy and Maddie

Something is awful funny

Sneaky

Maddie is a sneaky girl. She is crawling everywhere. Her little tooth is coming in good now. She is such a happy baby for a teether. :)

Founder's Day Parade

One of Ellie's favorite things to do is ride in Bob's fire dept staff vehicle. She does not get to very often, mainly on parade days. She was so excited about the parade this year. She could not wait to throw (or attempt to) her candy. The only thing is I am not sure that she has ever really seen a parade because she is almost always in them.

Ready with candy

Maddie came along too

Visit with the Bestie

Today my best friend came down from Indy and brought her boyfriend for us to finally meet. He is a great guy, and I am so happy for her. We so do not get to see each other enough.

We started the evening out at Kansai for some yummy dinner. This has become a traditional place when Amy is down. Then we headed to the putt putt course in Jeff. This is a really neat place that we just heard about, and definitely will be going back to.

My golfing cutie

Ellie was sharing her club with Joe

And after play snack at Grater's

I so wished that she lived closer. I definitely miss her!

Tooth # 1

Maddie got her first tooth today. It was really eventless. When Ellie started teething it was a slobbery, fussy, fevery mess. But with Maddie we were playing with her and she was giggling and laughing when I noticed a white glimmer in her mouth. And sure enough her bottom left tooth is in.

6 month Pictures

Father's Day Picture for Daddy

My beautiful Madelyn Faith.

Why?

Did I think that it was a good idea to go to school during the summer, and take an intensive at that. I am at school everyday from 8 a-7 p. Oh well only a few weeks, and I am actually really enjoying the class.

I took Maddie for her six month check-up today and she weights 14.2lbs. This was the first time I had to take one of the girls for a shot appointment by myself. Bob left for Virginia this morning. Surprisingly it went quite well.

Six months...

You are almost crawling (rolling and scooting very well)
You have not cut any teeth yet.
You are the most pleasant baby in the morning
You never sit still and are always moving to get something
You are not a huge fan of your car seat-mainly because of the above item
You are a sleeper. You go down around 9 and don't get up until I wake you up to go bye-bye
You love to eat, but don't know when to quit. Which is bad because you make yourself sick
You are eating Stage One baby foods and snacks (num nums)
You are definitely a Momma's girl and if I am around you must be with me
You are in 1-2 diapers and size 6 months clothes
You love playing with Chloe and just smile and laugh at her

Love is

School's Out for Summer

Even with a ten week maternity leave, this has been a really long year. I am glad that it is finally over. Now I can focus on the writing project for the rest of June, and then spend quality time with my babies in July :)

Congratulations Kasey

This has been a super busy weekend. It started yesterday when I had four graduation parties to go to. But actually the day flew by pretty fast. Today I only had two parties. I started my afternoon in Scottsburg then I headed over to Kasey's graduation party. I can not believe that Kasey is already old enough to graduate. For her graduation gift I made her a slide show. It turned out so good. I have made several slide shows, but this was by far the most emotional one to make. We had a nice visit with the family and of course the girls loved all the attention.

The only picture I got of Kasey-wasn't really into taking pics today

Uncle Walter's girls

Ellie playing with Matt