Mickade tries tubing

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Cinderella at work...no really Lilli wanted to wash dishes. Kept her busy for a good hour!!

A rare sight

Hugs for Bammie

Lilli all ready for her first day of dancing camp. She was so excited! She had a great day and was utterly exhuasted when she got home (it was 5 hours long!). It was her first time doing something away from home, without me there. She did great. She spent the afternoon resting and watching tv...her eyes were glassy with circles under them when she got home LOL. Sadly, though she had fun, she refused to go back. :( I even went and stayed with her the next morning for a half hour or so...as soon as I was going to leave she picked up her lunch bag and shoes and followed me. I guess she just wasn't ready yet! She told me all that dancing hurt.

Tubing!!!

We got a tube for the boat a few weeks, and the kids got to try it out. They loved it! They were so funny. Mickade liked it until any hint of speed (of course); Lilli was out there yelling "Faster! Faster!". Do these children come from the same house?

Fay Update

We're back home, after another obscenely long ride with an infant. Seriously, I don't think I'll be driving anywhere to visit anyone anytime soon. If you want to see us you are going to have to come here. :)

The storm was not bad down here at all, thank goodness. They did however evacuate the Navy base so I would have had to have left anyway, to their fun little evac shelter. So glad I went to my parents' LOL!

Tropical Storm Fay

Woohoo, our first evacuation!! We got an early jump and left Saturday ahead of any mandatory evacs. We are safe and sound (after a trip that should have been 4 hours took 8(!!) due to a baby who is not happy in the car) at my parents' in Coral Springs. It's just as well too, because even though there was no Key West resident mandatory evacuation, the Navy did mandatorily evacuate our part of the base. Which means we would have had to stay in some buildings they have on another base in Key West that are on higher ground...like 10 to a room. Um, no thanks. Really. I'm good.

Beautiful Face

I found my tongue! I stick it out now all the time...

Puppet Show

My mom was down this weekend and got the kids a sock puppet kit...it was a huge hit! They bugged us for probably about an hour or so from the moment I got out of bed in the morning (I had said we'd make them in the morning the night before) until I finally was ready...I was ready to throw the thing out by the time we did it LOL. They LOVED it though. :)



When they were done they made a stage and put on a puppet show for us. Here's the first part of it.

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The rest of the puppet show (after they went to the kitchen to talk about it at the end of the last one LOL)

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Rear-face as long as possible!

My PSA for the week: please keep your child rear-facing as long as their seat will allow (or really at least age 2). 1 year old is an absolute minimum. Kids' heads are so heavy, and their spinal cords so delicate, they really run the risk of major, major injury or death when they are in accident forward-facing. This video says it best...please watch and pass on. And keep your kids backwards...I love you all and your kids too much to let anything happen!

Deep Thoughts by Lillian Nora

Lilli: "Mom, do bees make honey?"
Me: "Yep!"
Lilli: "Well who makes jelly?"

Me: "Our neighbors bought a new house, so they might be busy tomorrow."
Lilli: "They did???"
Me: "Yeah! They got a nice house."
Lilli: "How did they fit it in their car?!?!"

I love being a mom.


PS Happy Coast Guard Day!!!