Lolly....Lolly....Lolly....

There are only so many times an adorable toddler can beg for "lolly" before it drives a mother completely mad. I'm not sure of the specific number...but we came dangerously close to it yesterday! Brooklyn kept running around the house begging "lolllllllly...loooooollllly". I tried any and everything I could think of. Nope. They were all wrong.

Wouldn't you love to know what it is?.......WATER! Yep. My child can enunciate "Where's my bow"...as in, Mommy don't you know I'm a perfectly girly girl and I have misplaced my beautiful hairbow...but water, no...the word water comes out "lolly"! Once I figured it out I got her a big sippy cup of water and she sucked it down, looked at me, smiled and said "lolly"! Just one more thing designed to keep me humble. Just when you think you have it all figured out....

July...ummm...gone!

Yep. That's pretty much all there is to say about it. Virtually gone! I guess that is to be expected. We spent half the month gone as well. We had great fun on our travels to Mimi and Poppy's and to Nana and Pepaw's! There are lots of cute pictures...I'll have to narrow it down to my favs.

There is no way I could catch you all up on everything cute the kids said and did in the past month. So, I'll post a few pictures and we'll start fresh...back to the posting more often...I promise!Here's one of Will racing down Mimi's driveway on the green machine!!! Does this take you back to childhood?

Ahhhh...this is the life!! Brooklyn is actually sitting in the "cooler holder" in the middle of this float!! Too much fun.Ahhhhh....I couldn't resist this photo! Will was walking to the pool in Nana's neighborhood(and yes he does have shirts that match his swimtrunks and no he does not wear them together). He is making funny noises with the "noodle" float...and, of course, wearing goggles (what all good superheros wear...even when not actually in water). Hey, the goggles match the noodle...does that count?

I know there are more photos, but for now...at least I gave an update...look for more soon...maybe even later today!

Here I am!!

WOW! I cannot believe it has been so long since my last posting! Things have been a little wild for us the last few weeks. We had VBS for a week after we got home from Mimi and Poppy's house. That was huge fun, but very exhausting. Robbie did some repair work on the computer, so I still don't have all my photo editing software up and running. But, I've decided that doesn't matter...enough is enough and I need to start posting again!

We've spent some time at the pool lately and the kids have so much fun in the water. Brooklyn is not afraid of the slide at all! She climbs up the stairs and waits to be sure I'm there to "slow her down" in the middle of the slide (otherwise she flips onto her belly and she doesn't like that). Anyway, she will slide 100 times when there's a female lifeguard at the bottom of the slide...but as soon as the shift changes and a guy is standing there...nope, no way! The first time she went down the slide (last week) I didn't slow her in the middle and the "guy lifeguard" at the bottom caught her and helped her off. WOW!! She totally freaked out. So, I knew she would remember all of that day...but the trend has carried on every time we are at the pool!

Here are some pictures of the kiddos enjoying the water. We're going to watch fireworks with some friends tonight and I'm sure I'll have pictures of July 4th celebration before the end of the weekend! Enjoy your holiday tomorrow.