Summer Summary

Well, remember this post?

 

We have been crossing things off slowly but surely.

 

We made Moon Sand.

Our Summer Rock Collection.

We collected rocks from all of our adventures and the girls painted them.

We then wrote the date and event on them.

We ate rainbows!

Sisters are loving sharing a room.

They are growing, growing, growing and filling up our growth chart :)

We made fun snacks like cereal necklaces.

We made ABC animal posters.

We had fun "buffet" lunches.

The girls looove these. A little bit of a lot of stuff.

We read 100 books!

Lily has her favorites now and most of them are very classic books.

We are very familiar with the hold and renew policies at the library now :)

We painted our sidewalk and driveway.

 

We had great S'mores evenings.

We ate tons of veggies fresh from our garden.

And, we loved watching the planes while

we ate lunch on the hill at the Botanical Gardens.

 

Other things we did were:

Play hopscotch

Caught Fireflies

Watched Fireworks

Met Daddy for lunch at work

We had a Scavenger Hunt

We went camping

We went swimming and to a pool

We went to a new park

We went to the movies

We almost have an entire USA magnet map

We went to a baseball game

We went to Busch Gardens

Harborfest 2012

We went to an outdoor concert

We took a family trip

We went to a Bounce House with Daddy

We ate dinner outside

And, we watched our first sunset as a family

 

Sad that summer is over but we had a great time!

Happy August!

We had one amazing morning :)

Summer Photos

Coloring

With all of their toys, games and puzzles

they choose to color the majority of the time.

Lily has progressed into controlled coloring and in realistic colors.

Emma is still working on her fine motor skills but is getting a lot better.

Needless to say, Daddy has a special file at work that holds the many, many

coloring pages and drawings they make for him.

BG Afternoon

We woke up this morning happy to have Daddy home and we asked the girls what they would like to do today.  Lily looked at us with her grown-up face and serious voice and said, "I would really like to go to Busch Gardens today. It would be so much fun for all of us, I think".

So, we went.

We did an afternoon/evening trip and it was great!

Lily with her favorite Street friends.

Fun on the Tea Cups.

One of Emma's favorite rides, the Balloons!

First time on this ride and after the "worker" went around securing their seat belts came and found us to tell us that Emma needed one of us with her. So, Mike squeezed in :) And, he was thrilled about it. hahaa...

We went on countless rides, saw shows in the Illuminights show, had dinner, went on a boat ride and had tons of fun in the cooler weather. They got to choose some jelly beans as their special treat...

and we caught the nightly fireworks as we were heading to the parking lot tram.

So much fun.

These girls love Busch Gardens and ask to go constantly :)

Our Week

I'm backdating so much right now...my only clues are pictures. I do know that this week Mike was in MD for three days and it's pretty much a blur. But here are some pics when I remembered to take some.

Blueberry Picking and trips to Target

Teaching Miss Emma to do the dishes :)

Writing stories in her journal.

In between visits from friends, trips to Target, dips in the pool, playing outside and reading books the week went really fast. Why is it August already and why does it feel like summer is over?!?

:( Just a few more weeks left.

Pool Time

We are loving are pool this summer :)

Back to Chic's

Finally.

Back at the beach!

With trips, surgeries, rain and extreme heat getting in our way...

we made it back! Woo Hoo.

Monday Evenings

Every Monday evening we take a walk on the beach.

This week, we went to Croatan and I took the camera :)

Love Summertime!

A Morning in Pungo

We headed to Pungo this morning to pick some fruits and veggies!

We LOVE summer in this area, so many fun things to do!

First, we picked our own green beans!

Then, we got to pick our own corn!

Lily was extremely excited about this portion of the morning since she was thrilled to pick corn like Pocahontas! She is very interested in her right now. We have had to check out books from the library, she wants to know all about her and John Smith. And, since she found out that they lived near us in Jamestown, she is wanting to take a trip there. We'll probably wait til it cools down and the tourists go home but our four year old wants to go to Jamestown. :)

Next stop was picking blackberries!

Our fingers were stained red by the end of this part but oh, so good! Emma was really great at this too, she filled up her little bucket three times!

Our final stop, Pungo Blueberries!

This will be great in a few weekends. There were plenty of blueberries but they are still ripening a bit. The downpour that kept us huddled under a veggie stand awning didn't deter us. Although, we did pick quickly and ran at the first sound of thunder :)

Yummy!

Baltimore

We made it to Baltimore in record time without sitting in traffic for more than 5 minutes, really the most pleasant trip north...ever. The girls only really needed to stop once but Emma had some "poopy fear" issues so we stopped two more times than needed. :)

We ended up staying with Mike's sister, Auntie Irene, Uncle Dave and their soon to be 4 month old twin sons, David Matthew and Christian Michael.

The evening we arrived it didn't take long until we were all very smitten with the boys!

It didn't take long to realize that Lily and Emma are two little Mamas. They were gentle, sweet, caring, and concerned about their every move or cry. They fed them, sat with them, just wanted to hold them every second and brought their favorite toys to them a lot. They also didn't get too jealous of Mike and I holding them either.

The boys are just delicious!

And, so different! They are fraternal twins. One looks like Dave and the other looks like Irene. David is quiet, content, and laid back. Christian is talkative, active and sensitive. Both are extremely happy, smiley and such good babies! They are already pretty much sleeping through the night and relatively easy babies. We couldn't have gone during a better stage of babydom.

We loved being with Irene and the boys so much!

The girls got some good Auntie I time in too.

On the Fourth, we spent the day with the entire family at Grammy and Poppy's house.

The cousins had fun in the pool, ate lots of yummy food and watched

the fireworks on tv. We aren't too fond of the loud fireworks just yet.

We had fun with our cousins too!

Aunt Sara got the kids canvases to paint and they loved it!

 

We had such a great visit and the three days flew by too quickly.

We can't wait for our next trip to MD to see everyone.

On the Road...Again...

And, a trip up the Eastern Shore, is not complete

without a stop in a "middle of nowhere field" potty stop.

We are now HUGE fans of traveling this route.

Missing the entire I95 corridor :)

And, I got to take pics of my absolute, hands down favorite flower...EVER.

Thanks Emma for your potty breaks :)