Summer Splash!

Uh oh! The Coast Guard boat has capsized! Who will save us now?
I got this boat for John last Christmas and the girls love it as much as he does! He let them take it in the kiddie pool with them and they kept flipping it over in the water. Poor Coasties!

This picture shows exactly how the girls are with the pool. Star likes the idea of a pool, but she loves WARM water. Its about all we can do to get her to stand in the pool. Miss Fabulous, on the other hand, is all about the splash and the jumping and everything else. She has always loved the cold water. Strange.

I still can't believe how big she is getting! There are days that I look at her and think "She's still so little!" But more often than not, I find myself amazed at how quickly she's grown and how fast the next few years are going to pass!

She has NO fear. I guess all those years of forcing her out in the ocean waves paid off, huh?

Not Star. She spent most of her time doing this...


...or this. Love this picture.

Using the slide as a "jumping board".

The boat finally ran aground.


Star pointing out her tatoo we got earlier at a sand sculpting event and getting ready to slide...minus the swimming pool. Perfect.

Miss Fabulous had to show off her tatoo too.

Swim call for the Coastie!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Reverting Back

In 2006, we moved to Hawaii.  I started this blog that year.  I blogged as an outlet and a way to keep in touch with my family across an ocean.  It was far simpler than sending out individual or group emails loaded with as many pictures as emails would allow back then.  I might even still have copies of those emails, tucked away in some folder somewhere.  Blogging became a way for me to make friends, or feel like I had made friends.  I followed other blogs and, occasionally commented...but I’d say odd things.  Not on purpose. The comments make perfect sense to me, because they are coming out of my head and there is a thought pattern or connection.  People that know me would be able to make the connection.  Other bloggers...other people, they don’t know me.  They didn’t know me.  I was just the weirdo making odd comments on a random post.  I lived for comments on mine.  Usually it was my mom, she never missed a post and oft...
Read more

Summer Fade

 Summer is drawing to an end. We have traveled to AZ and UT. Played far too many video games and watched entirely too much TV. Workbooks were provided by myself with incentive to anyone who finished would get a large prize...no takers. No mom school this year...that may be a thing of the past with all these kids growing up.  John announced his retirement for next year and we are on the hunt for a place to finally settle into for next year. Nearer to family sounds great. New England has a lot to offer too. Our money will stretch a lot farther in a LCOL area like Iowa or Ohio. We do love being near the ocean or water and did love Alaska. This is going to be harder than I thought. The kids are going back to school and, since we live in SoCal now, we will continue to experience summer. I'm still not sure what MissFab is doing this year. Star started her Sophomore year of high school and she is nearly a week in. She has changed her schedule and is already ready to be done with scho...
Read more

Nearly 5 weeks...

Image
I've been told I need to update the blog so here are several pictures of little Star. She is now just over 11 lbs. and just shy of 23" long. She is just a bit big. Miss Fabulous was nearly 4 months old before she got as big as our Star! She is fun and really cuddly. She really loves to eat (thus the big size!) and sleep but seems to be wanting to be on the move. John has dubbed her "Scooter" because she is never where we put her. She rolled over from her back to her tummy the other day! Still not great at night...sometime she just wants to be awake, but last night she slept 7 hours straight and I'm hoping its the beginning of a trend! Miss Fabulous just LOVES her little sister and is always trying to help. MF is doing a little better in school with a lot of help from her teacher and some from us at home. We are starting her in a program at school where they help children deal with transition, which seems to be the biggest part of her problem. The progr...
Read more