Thursday, July 23, 2009

So it's July 23rd. Summer is nearing an end (once we hit August I may as well be in school!), vacation is over, and Audrey is officially 2 1/2. What have we been doing to make the last 6 weeks go so quickly?!

We've kept pretty busy. The kids and I just got home from a trip to the Cincinnati Zoo with our friends Amber, Brendan (3), and Emery (4 mos.). Both are sleeping right now! Actually, I take that back - I don't think Audrey's sleeping, but she's upstairs in her room and is supposed to be taking a nap! I can hear her on the monitor. Conner's sacked out on the couch - I usually just leave him in the car when he falls asleep in there, but I took pity on him today and brought him in. These are some pictures from our last trip to the zoo with Amber, Brendan, and Emery (on the 30th of June).

The weather's been crazy this summer! Today's high was supposed to be in the 70s... I'm not sure it reached the 70s yesterday and rained all day. I'm afraid that this cool weather means the hot weather is waiting until we go back to school.

We've had some big moments in the past few weeks...
1. Conner is officially training wheel-less on his bike! He'd made some comments about wanting them off, so a couple of weeks ago (it was the 7th, I think) I took them off and away he went! He had no problems at all! It was crazy.


2. Audrey is officially pull-up-less! She's been wearing panties during the day with only one problem (and that was at a restaurant in Myrtle Beach, which was lovely). She's still doing diapers during naptime and bedtime, but often wakes up dry.

We went on our big vacation to Myrtle Beach last week and had a great time. I think Aud's going to grow up and be a beach bum - she absolutely loved the sand and the ocean! Conner seemed to prefer the pool, but that was because they had a lazy river that he could play in (and pester everyone around him). We didn't do too much activity-wise. Our mornings and afternoons were spent at the ocean/pool (with a break for lunch - then we left the little ones inside to nap). We went out to dinner several times all together (with Doug, Marge, Andy, Erica, Levi, and Ezra), but there was one night that Eric and I went by ourselves to dinner and a movie, too. The four of us also spent one evening putt-putting... I won't tell you who won (cough, cough).

I have lots and lots of pictures of our trip - I posted them to my shutterfly site (click here) if you'd like to check them out!

Friday, July 10, 2009

Off we go!

We've been keeping pretty busy lately - Coney Island, the Zoo, King's Island, a local waterpark, etc. (Doesn't it make you tired just to think about it?! That's the goal :) )

I'm actually going to take the kids to Coney here in a little bit. We normally go from 10 to 12:30 or so (and it's after 2:00 right now), but we're leaving in the middle of the night for our week-long vacation to Myrtle Beach. Eric and I thought it might help to have the kids be extra tired... maybe they'll sleep a little more in the car! Aud's taking her nap; we'll probably get ready to go after she wakes up.

The car's all packed. I wonder what we're going to forget?!