What a beautiful warm, still day here! The girls were driving me nuts inside today, so we filled up our little pool, and had some splish-splashing fun! :)

strike a pose, Avery!

Liv was pretty timid of the water at first. (if you're wondering why there are bubbles in the water, I usually put in Johnson's and Johnson's baby wash in their pool...)

After about 15 minutes of walking around, throwing toys in and out, and splashing, she felt brave to tackle the slide...

Watch her face in these! I'm so glad I had my camera ready!

"Hey Avery....try to get Liv to sit on that step so I can get a picture of you two together"

Not too shabby....

THIS is what a mild reaction is...we experienced another one last night.
Came out of no where. Thank God for meds on hand!!!

(BTW...anyone else out there having trouble with their photobucket accounts??)

We had a fun filled day today! Daddy let me take a 2 hour nap this morning! What a wonderful start to the day. Then, we watched some of the Tiger Woods - Rocco Mediate golf show-down! That was fun! :)

Avery and I went over to the wading pool this afternoon, and had it all to ourselves! LOVE THAT! I think we'll try to make it something we do each Monday...Daddy has off, so he can stay home with whichever girl I don't take! :)

Then, Avery had her 2nd gymnastics class tonight! Daddy and Liv went with her as well as I, and we had fun watching her! We did decide that Liv will not be attending again. She's a crazy woman, and she's just too hard to control! :)

Tomorrow, we get our new stove and hood! We're so excited! Our kitchen will be one step closer to being finished! :)

To the man WHO.....

mows our lawn
fills up the cars with gas (and washes them)
works (more than) full time to meet our needs
finishes projects that mommy starts
cooks and grills on occasion because mommy doesn't
loves our mommy super duper much
loves us super duper much
we have to prance around in front of, because we LOVE daddy's oohs and ahh's.
WE LOVE TO THE MOON AND BACK...

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!
WE LOVE YOU DADDY

Here is where Miss Liv is today....

You'll notice the skin hanging thing between her 2 front teeth. This is what is left after her face plant on the floor. She still has the connecting skin from her lip to her gums, but there is this big skin hanging....we'll just have to see what happens, I guess! If you look in the lower picture, you can see the skin thing connected...

And, for some comparison, here is where Liv was at the beginning of this 5 week teething session!

(as we were watching news coverage of the horrible flooding in Iowa)

Avery: "Daddy...do people in Iowa speak English?"

we got a giggle out of that one! :)

We were able to spend a little time outside yesterday. It's been really rainy and windy here, so outside time has been limited. Let's just say the girls were excited to use up some of their energy!

Not sure what Liv's doing here. She did this over and over in the backyard...I think it's something Uncle Josh and Aunt Kathryn taught her?

Avery got a massive hair cut yesterday...can you tell? It was stringy and yucky, so we decided to cut it short, and layer it up! I hated saying goodbye to her curls, but her hair looks much healthier now!

I attempted to take Christmas card photos of the girls Christmas 2007...
it was a terrible day, and the girls HATED it! :)

Isn't the outfit that Nana Dianne made for her rawther fabulous?
It will be perfecto for her lavish Eloise birthday party!!!


There's Eloise, for those of you who don't watch her multiple times of the day!

Manicure, anyone?

Avery was watching "Eloise in Hollywood", and heard Eloise's nanny say, "I think I've died and gone to heaven!" (while she was excited about getting movie star treatment)

Avery then says, "Hey Mommy....people in Hollywood know about heaven, too!"

I took Avery to her very first gymnastics class tonight. She had an hour packed with fun! There are WAY too many pictures here...this I know. Daddy and Nana both weren't there, and I'm sure they would like to relive our hour of fun with us! :)

Avery did very good hanging onto the bar all alone!

This is one of her favorite things to do there! Hang on the bar, and then.....

drop into the "pit" full of foam squares!!!

There is my lil' gymnast!

Learning how to do a back somersault!

Bounce...Bounce.....

Trying to get up on her hands...still needs to work on that one!!!

Front somersault!

Gol, I just loved watching this little girl all night!

Check THAT out!!! Those who know Avery, would think she would be to scared for this, but NOPE...She LOVED it!

"Avery...what did you love the MOST tonight?"
"EVERYTHING", she said!!!!!