Last Week Before School

Claire

She is starting to form some sentences when she asks for certain things. It is fun to sit down with her for learning and reading books now that she likes to learn with me. We made her a fort to play in and she likes to keep her doggy toys in it when we have it up, but they are pretty good at taking it down. I’m dressing them in dresses every once in a while and I get her excited about dressing up and dancing around when she is pretty. She is also learning to tie shoes by helping daddy! She doesn’t know how to put on her own shoes with Velcro, but she will help Chris. 

Shay

Our blue eyed beauty is learning to communicate and understanding so much we say to her. She will go get kisses right before bed time from everyone just by us saying "go get kisses." Funniest moments with her are when she runs towards me when I come inside and hugs my legs like she hasn’t seen me in years. She does get very clingy sometimes and loves cuddle time if she gets hurt....that does seem to happen more often these days. The amount of scars, scrapes, and bruises on my girls hurts my heart though and I wish I could protect them from all that! We are working on only taking one nap during the day so she goes to bed earlier and it is going pretty well so far.

California

So far my impressions of living here is positive and even though Chris is resisting saying he likes it, we enjoy our days here. My early morning runs are a great temperature, and when we go running on Chris’s cardio workout days we just embrace the heat. Our back yard is in the shade in the evening and feels nice to eat dinner on the table and chairs outside while the girls play. Chris will start school tomorrow and hopefully we can balance the time he needs to spend studying with the girls and we can keep going to the park we found that we love. It is hard to go to the park because we don't trust Claire walking outside the stroller yet since we aren't as familiar with this area. I think it is a nice area though and a really good park!