Kids playing around the island

Lillian at the Park on the Slide

She went down a slide for the first time!

Lillian the climber

Lillian is definitely an explorer. She has been able to crawl up on the blue chair for a while, but she recently has got it down pat and can get up onto the chair faster than you'd imagine. She laughs and laughs when you pull her down. She is going to be a climber for sure.

Scooters with Breanne - the Pee Incident

Saturday afternoon Breanne awesomely came by to hang out in the back yard for a bit and then walked to Scooters with us. Since Lillian had been playing in the water she had her swim diaper on - which is less absorbent than a normal diaper. Unfortunately when we popped her in the wrap and headed out no one thought of that. I wore Lillian down to Scooters in the sling and Breanne volunteered to wear her back home. Since Lillian had been playing in the water the sling was bit wet from the trip down. On the way home Alan left us to grab dinner at Whole Foods, so it was just me and Breanne and the two kids. 

We got to the Paulina Brown Line Stop when Breanne started to say something like 'I think she might be peeing' and I looked and saw a stream of liquid coming off the bottom of the sling and Breanne moving her hand out from underneath it.  *sigh* Lillian had peed all over poor Breanne. Luckily we weren't so far from home and Breanne was an amazing sport about the whole thing. I think I will owe her MANY more ice creams before this one will be lived down. 

Note to self: make sure to change out of swim diapers before heading to scooters in the future.

Summer day in the backyard

My very favorite part of summer days is playing with water in the back yard with the kids. Last Saturday was full of chores, but we managed to squeeze in some play time. In fact, as the leather arm chair was being moved to the garage we stopped and just sat in it and lounged while the kids played. It was a great time and made even better by a visit by Breanne. (more about that in another post). I brought out the real camera (that we got from Kiki) so there are a TON of pictures after the jump.

More after the jump...

Camera Testing

Kiki gave me her old camera that is about a million times better than our phone cameras that we normally use. Here is me trying to figure out how to use it. I didn't add all the pictures of the rug and walls that I accidentally took. 

Mr Fix-it

Simon and I went for a walk around the block and the little man took a screw driver, pliers, wrench and some screws with us. We stopped many times to fix things.