summery weekend

Its hot today (90s). Hot and humid. Its supposed to even hotter tomorrow. (Makes me a bit happy that I'm working from home on Wednesday instead of Tuesday this week.)

This past weekend was nicer though. Still warm, but with lovely breezes that made the shade a comfortable place to be. I got my hair did. Then had a diner lunch and headed to meet Ro, Pat, and babes for ice cream. We all enjoyed the ice cream, and Gwen LOVED her first opportunity to help feed baby Casey.

She did a very good job holding the bottle.

After that we all stopped at 2 wineries on our way back home to grab some of our favorite Lehigh Valley wine. We took turns going into the wineries and hanging out with babes.

Sunday was more low-key, though with one fabulous fabulous bit. Trav helped with the last tennis camp of the season, we played out in the yard a little bit in the late afternoon, but otherwise we mostly just hung out and watched Harry Potter!

The best part though? Gwen slept in her crib for nap again... and she actually did it for the whole 2 hours!! Yay!! I think I need that nap as much as she does.  :-)

Now we just have to get through this week, and we can screw up all that great napping with a vacation... ;-)

4.5 days!



Ps. Prayers for my Gram please, they found cancer. Biopsy Wed to see if its primary site, or metastasized. She just can't catch a break.

that's what she said

Just for my own record (and hopefully some of these will make you go, Awww...), here's what Gwen's saying at almost 17 months: 

Excuse Me (Doos De) - kills me with cute, every time
Mommy's glasses
Daddy's (normally followed by pointing to his cup)
Please
Pasta
Bone (for Daisy's bone)
Ball
All Done (has signed this for a LONG time, but now says it too)
Bu-bye
Papa
No-No, Mama! (normally when I try to steal a bite of her food... LOL)
Mine
Blue/Purple/Brown Bear (each used to correctly identify the differently colored bears!)

(In addition to words she's been saying for a while:)
Mama/Mommy
Dada/Daddy
Daisy!
Puppy
Yes
No
Hi
Yay
Uh-oh
That


(And signs:)
All Done
More


(She also makes sounds in appropriate ways:)

Shhh (complete with finger to lips)
Ah-shh, ah-shhh (sleeping sound, with hand by the side of her head)
Ahhhhh (when you open your mouth to brush your teeth)
Aw (when something is sweet) 

She also knows many more, and will answer questions. She is starting to repeat a lot of words after us, though not using them independently yet.

(In addition, she knows and will point to these body parts:)
Eyes
Ears
Nose 
Mouth
Belly  (she loves blowing raspberries on Mama's belly, thanks Daddy!)


I can't wait to see what comes out of her mouth next!!

from my work computer desktop

(I'm too tired to post anything that requires thought today... molars are the bane of my existence! I've been meaning to do something with these or at least show someone though, so now's my chance.)

Funnies:

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Beautiful:

I just can't get this picture out of my head... copywrite Blurbomat.

Inspiration:

I want to make this!!

I'm in love with these playrooms pictures...

Inspiration for Gwen's future room?

Vacation: 9 days and (who's) counting

4th of july weekend

Three-day weekends are pretty great to begin with... but Friday we both got out of work early, which was even better. It gave us some playtime in the yard.

Aww, my boy.

Trade?

Saturday, Trav slept in while Gwen and I ran out the local farmer's market. It was pretty hot and steamy already, but we wandered around for a bit and shared some freshly made blueberry-strawberry lemonade, a peach, and a slice of cinnamon swirl bread. Mmm.

The rest of the day was pretty low-key, did some chores, etc. Gwen took a nap in her crib, for what I think was the first time ever! (We're working on doing it all the time now.) Those with toddlers... do you have a pre-nap routine? She's definitely fighting sleep. Obviously we just started going down in the crib, so it will take some getting used to, but just wondering what everyone else does.

Sunday we had our Ro and Pat over with the girls, for a little grilling. It was a lot of fun and Gwen had a great time playing in the pool with GG.

Baby butt!

It was a really nice day.

Monday (HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!) we all got to sleep in, as Gwen didn't really wake up until 8 (unheard of)!! Trav let me sleep a bit more, then we headed over to our community's 4th of July celebration. It was in the park next to our house. We listened to some music, rode the little train, played on the playground, and ate some shaved ice.

After that, we hid in our house because it was horrendously humid and gross out!! After a brief reprise, summer is back with a vengeance.

Last night we fell asleep to the sounds of fireworks in the distance. 

For today, its back to work like normal... though thankfully only a 4-day week. And only 10-days until vacation!