this week {from my phone}

Thank the Lord for a slow week. Finally! This has been our first week of the summer not having to be anywhere at 9am, so we spent most of our days in our pj’s just playing around the house. It was so nice. At least until lunchtime, when the kids were starting to drive me nuts. Luckily I can still stick everybody down for naps or rest and get some quiet time.

My kids… all three of them… love to play dress up. Sometimes it’s a must that we have the correct dress or jacket with the matching shoes or accessory. Other times it’s a free for all and we end up with a Madeline/ballerina/cowgirl and a fireman/superhero/cowboy.

After a birthday party Friday afternoon, the big kids headed to spend the night with Grandmama and Granddaddy, so Boland joined Aaron and I for a date night. I was craving guacamole, so we headed to Cantina, where Boland enjoyed dipping his lime wedges in the guac. Whatever keeps him quiet!Sunday we made our normal trip to Yumilicious after lunch…Only this time Kit joined us. {We had to pretend order for Kit. She is an official member of our family now. It’s actually exhausting.}I’ve logged in a good many hours at my sewing machine this summer. I’ve been happy with most all of the new patterns I’ve tried, with the exception of baby gowns. I’ve searched high and low for a good pattern for a simple day gown, and most of them have been a bust. Not wanting to give up, I took the plunge and tried my hand at sewing knits. It was extremely frustrating at first and it took a while to get the hang of, but I think I finally found a pattern I like!And I had just enough scrap material to make a matching hat. Cuteness overload. And because baby’s gender is unknown and I’m sewing for both boy and girl, my machine saw a lot of pretty pink ruffles this week too.And this one is finally starting to talk our ears off. It’s bittersweet, seeing as how I had just recently talked to his pediatrician about worries of him not talking yet, but there is literally not a single second of silence now when any kid is awake. He woke up after a nap and insisted on wearing his brother’s ‘ta-queen hat’.After saying goodbye  to our sweet friends, the Alberts, at their going away party the night before, it was a fun surprise to run into them at lunch the next day. The kids {including Kit!} got to play together one more time while Liz and I got to chat for a while. Luckily they’re moving to the Dominican Republic, so we’re already planning a trip to visit very soon! We loaded our car for one last trip to the beach. I brought along my go-to drink…club soda, lime and mint. Or as Emory calls it, ‘mommy’s ice cold water with leaves’. It’s so much better than drinking plain ‘ole water {blah!}.We met the family for pizza as soon as we got to the beach, and after pizza we always walk next door for ice cream at Kirk’s. I love the peanut butter chocolate ice cream, but mostly the kids go for the horsey ride. Until now, Boland only got to have a few bites of someone else’s ice cream, but he finally joined the ranks of ‘big kid’ with his very own cone this time! He was in heaven. And covered head-to-toe by the end, which almost gave me a heart attack.Emory decided she was having twins one morning. Her first ‘pretending to be pregnant’ scenario. She thought it was hilarious.We found a baby horseshoe crab on the beach.

And after a good, long, after-the-beach nap, Watson woke up with Rockadoodle hair. Proof that he didn’t move an inch while sleeping. He has the best bed head ever.