Jeff and Tanya: It is HOT....

We are enjoying the really hot weather here the last few days. We have to take advantage of it while we have it. Yesterday my mom, Megs, Gabby and I went to the beach and Megs loves it there! She liked to go in the water even though it was chilly. She likes to make sand castles and dig in the sand. She also went the beach the day before with Jeff's parents. They picked her up in the morning and took her to the beach. I saw some pictures and it looked it she had a great time. I guess she fell in the water and she got up and just laughed. I guess that's good, but scary that she has no fear!! And today we went the the waterpark with some friends. Megan was a little hesitant at first of all the sprinklers, but she quickly got used to it. They have a little water slide at the waterpark and she refused to go down it!!

We had a busy weekend last week. Jeff's dad had his retirement party on Sunday and his parents had lots of friends and family over for dinner. It was really nice!! I thought maybe Megs would be overwhelmed by all the people, but she loved it!! She was the center of attention. We stayed at their house a little late and Megan didn't get to bed until 9:30pm (she usually goes to bed at 7:30pm). She did really well, but the next morning she was SO whinny. Oh well, those days are few and far between.

Then on Saturday we went to a parade on the Westside with some friends. The parade was really not very good, but the kids thought it was great!! Megan mostly liked to look at the balloons. Gabby was really fussy at the parade because she was overtired. So I took her away from the people and tried to calm her down. She did finally fall asleep just before the parade ended. Jeff had four days off this past weekend and it was nice to just relax. We had some friends over for dinner on Saturday night for a BBQ and just hung out!!

I took some cute pictures of Megan in this dress she got from Ama and Papa Vogt from Mexico. It is nice and cool for these hot days!!

Well, Gabby is officially a thumb-sucker!! I have tried and tried to give her the soother, but she just spits it out and in her little thumb goes. It looks so cute right now because her thumb is so tiny, but you can't take the thumb away, so that worries me a little bit. Oh well, I can't stop her from doing it at this age. She is still sleeping really well..usually from 9:30pm to 5:30am and feeds and then back to sleep until 9:00am or so. Sometimes I'm amazed how she can sleep through all Megan's noise!! She doesn't really like to be on her tummy, but I'm trying to do it more often so she get used to it. Yesterday she did really well and liked to look at everything around her. I can't believe how big she is getting!!

Jeff planted some trees in our yard over the weekend. We got 3 maple trees from his parents house, since their maple trees had reproduced. We planted 2 in the front yard and one in the back. They are looking a little sad right now because they have been moved and it is really hot!! Hopefully they will survive. Jeff took this picture of Megs beside one of the trees to show how small it is and we can watch it grow!!