Mommy's Sad Face

One of my closest friends moved away the other day. That would be the second one this summer. After they drove away from my house the other day and were on their way, I was of course feeling pretty down. Zachary and I have been talking about the moving day to prepare him for it. During those times I would tell him that I'm sad that they are leaving. Zachary would say that he didn't want them to move also. A few minutes after they left he said, "you're sad Mommy".

I was curious if he thought this because I looked sad or he remembered our discussions. So I said, "how do you know that I'm sad?"
"because Aurelia's not moving".
"Oh....well yes you are right about that but how do you know that I'm sad?"
He repeated himself and obviously he wasn't understanding the question so I said,
"Did you see my sad face?"
He said, "yes but you can just put on some make up".

Well, someday he will learn that there's not much we can physically do to hide sadness...but that sure was cute.

"Not until we get home...we have to pay for that!"

Zachary and Adelyn both accompany me on our weekly grocery store trips. Zachary holds my shopping list and we both look at it to pick out our groceries. Sometimes I let him get a few special things like gummy bears or oatmeal bars or something fun and he gets to hold them. Sometimes he just likes to hold some of the items that we regularly buy, but I always tell him, "Okay don't eat it yet, just hold it. We have to pay for it first".

Today Zachary and I were playing grocery store and stuffed animals. We were finding all kinds of cool things to buy! After selecting a rotary phone, a mop, a mailbox, a few blocks and some railroad tracks we were on our way to pay at the keyboard that Scott brought Zachary from the junk box at work. I was allowed to hold the mop. Before we got there Zachary looked at me and said "Okay, don't mop yet. We have to pay for it first". Darn! We know how much we all have that urge to start mopping before we even get to the checkout line". :)

Look at Us!

We are having a great time being a brother and a sister! It gets more fun everyday! Look at all of the things we are doing together!




Giving Adelyn a stroller ride in the backyard!


Teaching Adelyn how to sit at the table and eat!


Showing Adelyn toys and eating the toys Zachary shares!


"Mommy, I want to read her a book!"


Sitting together! Isn't this a Mommy and Daddy's dream picture?

My New Chair!

My Great Aunt Jan gave me this really cool chair! It's pink and I can sit in it all by myself! It was kind of hard when I first got it, but now I can hold my head real still and I can watch all of the things going on around me, like the train set and Zachary with all of his adventures! It won't be long before I can sit up on my own!! Thanks for the Bumbo chair Aunt Jan. You really are a "great" aunt.

4th of July

Happy Birthday America!

We enjoyed a fun forth of July with family and friends. We had a great day with Scott's brother Kevin who came to visit for the weekend while taking a break from his summer job in Houston. I know Zachary enjoyed his company. Who wouldn't with an uncle who does science experiments with you and makes peanut butter play doah?! We also got to spend time at the Sebastian's house. It was the perfect day for Zachary's newest present from his Pop2...a slip n slide!!

Below you can see how thoroughly he and his friends enjoyed this fabulous water invention.