Beach Bliss 2012

Our first evening at Topsail.  This was supposed to be a "five minute walk on the beach" before bedtime.  [This was much more fun though!]

Hooray for Summer!

Nuestra Casa en Monteverde: Party Rock: I think you can follow the link to the video on Kate's blog to check out the girls' party rockin'...

Safari Camp

Last week the girls went to camp put on by Spanish Playtime at their preschool.  The theme was "Safari", and face painting was the highlight!

Isabelle the Author

Isabelle has always liked to "type" on my computer.  Today was the first time she was seeking out specific letters and sounding things out to make a story.  Her full story is below.  We had to help her with "parrot", "Uncle Nesto" and "earring", but otherwise, she did this herself! 

[She had plans to move on to include Aunt Kate, but you may have noticed that she was sliding into silly, and the sentence she had proposed for Aunt Kate went too far in that direction.]

MacGyver Mama

The girls and I went to the library this afternoon.  Lucia said she had to go potty.  We made it to the stall and on the potty, but her placement was off and she managed to get pee everywhere, soaking her undies and skirt.  So there we were in the stall.  And her clothes were wet.  And she wanted nothing to do with wet clothes.  So after checking in my purse for spare undies (they've been found there before!) and coming up empty handed, I figured I could take off the cami I had under my t-shirt and make it into a dress.  Just tied the straps up in back and voila!  Pretty cute!  So we proceeded on to Bed, Bath, and Beyond and the grocery store with Lucia in this outfit, sans undies.  She kept asking if she could keep the shirt now as her dress and put it in her drawer.

Christmas in... June?

I came home from work yesterday to this welcoming committee.  The girls were "hiding" from me, and whispering about something.  I was simply struck by their attire.  But hey, they really only got one day's wear out of those Christmas dresses anyway, so might as well wear them!

It turns out that all of the whispering (and staying so close to one another) was about their hilarious secret:  They had tied themselves together using the sashes from their dresses.  That was all well and good, until Lucia wanted to go a different direction (see final pic).  There's really never a dull moment!



Rising Kindergartener

Tonight was Belle's orientation for Kindergarten!  It was mildly chaotic with so many 5 year olds and parents and siblings, but Belle did great going with one of the teachers from her track to do a craft while the parents got oriented.  Lucia threw her arms around Isabelle before Belle headed off and said, "I gonna miss you!"  Both survived.  Isabelle wanted to go back with her teacher within 5 minutes of rejoining us in the auditorium.  August 1 is coming soon enough!!  I really like the school, the principal, and the teachers... fingers crossed she gets the same one she's already met and likes.  (And who I've heard nothing but great things about!)  I think she's ready - and have a feeling the adjustment is going to be harder on Lucia's end!

Sharing a chair with her buddy Evie before the program began.