What a lovely summer it has been so far! Being able to stay at home during the day with my girls has been such an adventure, and it has kept me busier than I ever have been. Lilah has been crawling now since mid July and she is getting stronger and more capable of getting into trouble with each day that flies by. She makes a b-line for the cat food dishes now and is utterly fascinated with the toilet so I have been more wary about baby proofing. It's strange that in the short time since McKenna was a little baby until now how much I seem to have forgotten about what it's like to have an infant around. Being a mom of a newborn is like reading your favorite book over and over again and finding a wonderful secret hidden amongst the paragraphs that changes the whole story with each turn of the page....I can't seem to get enough.
McKenna is really starting to get the hang of using the potty chair now (T/G!) She has been a real trooper and fights us a lot less when we ask her to use it. We still have a long way to go before we can put her in big girl underpants, but at least we are on the right track now....seemed like we would never get to this point. <--We have learned a valuable lesson from potty training that I think will carry through to the time our girls are adults....when all else fails, use bribery! She has had enough gummy worm rewards to stretch the globe.
The front yard grass is growing in now, along with a wide variety of exotic weeds...most of which never grew on our previous layer of sod. What exactly is wrong with that picture? I am pretty sure our neighbors are sprinkling weed seed down while we sleep...that is the ONLY logical explanation. Other than the weeds the yard looks great and it finally looks as though there may be an end to the grueling front yard work in sight. Just in time for another one of our house projects. :)
Well, I suppose I should go for now. Hope all is well for all those who are reading this. Have a lovely rest of the summer!

Love,
Jaime