every day i promise myself that i will post pictures and blog a little bit…and every day i go to sleep without doing it. apparently, taking care of a know-it-all toddler and an almost-mobile baby takes more time than i realize. we’ve been busy this summer. here’s a quick rundown of how we’ve been spending all of our time:
michael built this massive plaything that leslie loves. lucy also loves it.
we bought a teeny tiny backyard pool, which is quite a hit with the younger miss forston.
on rainy days or days that are too hot to be outside we dress up in clothes that are too small and dance around leslie’s room.
leslie and mommy get matching pedicures. fancy, huh?
on lucky days, the fedex man brings us presents.
we wait for daddy to come home from work.
we play hide ‘n’ seek. lucy counts while leslie hides.
on very sad days we go to the pediatrician. mommy promises leslie that she won’t have to get a shot. obviously, mommy is a liar. so, to make up for it we go to toys r us and spend $80.
we invite our neighbors over to swim…
and sometimes we make him wear a bikini. he’s a good sport about it…just don’t tell his dad.
lucy cools down by climbing into the refrigerator.
we give ourselves, like, totally awesome hair-dos.
it’s a busy, busy place. but it’s a good kind of busy. the kind that makes you smile when you finally fall into bed. we are blessed beyond measure, and that’s a great feeling to have.
leslie hearts worms.
she also hearts kayla.
michael had a birthday…complete with funfetti cake.
and cookie cake.
and cupcakes.
and his mom’s famous chocolate pound cake with caramel icing. i’m gaining weight just thinking about it.
leslie also had a birthday…with a strawberry princess cake. yum!
she loves her mommy.
nate was there.
he and lexie helped leslie open her presents.
it was a full house. more like a bursting house actually.
lucy enjoyed some snuggle time with her granny.
leslie and ma blew out the candles.
and leslie showed off her fancy new age. ma is impressed.
nanny ate cake…
…and she might have shared some with lucy.
the morning of her actual birthday she got a chocolate donut with a birthday candle.
lucy continues to be the world’s happiest baby. someday she’ll hate her daddy for popping her collar and then taking pictures of it, but for now she doesn’t know any better.
this is lucy with her friend paislee. paislee’s parents are in our small group at church. i think there are only 3 weeks between these girls, and i think they’ll be great friends! they certainly enjoyed their first playdate!
splashing is fun
i see easter baskets!
let’s see what the bunny left
look, roro! princess bubble bath!
matching bunny ears = fun
lucy in her fancy easter dress. (michael’s aunt leah made it for aunt erin…28 years ago…and it’s still beautiful!)
lucy says, “easter is fun!”
lucy loves eating real food. we haven’t found anything she hasn’t liked.
leslie met bob and larry. she loved every second of it, and would have been happier only if junior asparagus had made an appearance.
aunt bridget came to town for lucy’s baptism.
uncle will and lindsay came, too. we fed some ducks before dinner.
lucy tried to help, but she’s still a bit too tiny to really understand the whole “feeding the ducks” thing.
lucy was baptized and did a great job. our family is so blessed!
we ate cake.
we took a few pictures with aunt bridget before she had to go back to texas.
lucy was really a good sport about the whole thing…until we had to take the stickers off of her face. that she did not enjoy at all. in other lucy news, she is starting to get up on her knees and rock back and forth. how is it that she’s so close to crawling already?!? time moves faster and faster these days and i find myself desperately trying to turn back to clock, to keep my babies from growing up so quickly.
