Is this Still Spring?

 Claire

On a recent shopping trip, I picked up a fun new summer toy for the girls since its been getting warmer and warmer here. For a while they used them as swords, then I showed them how to blow air at each other, and then daddy came along and started a water fight with our squirt toys. Claire was able to pull the water in and shoot really well to get Chris who claimed the other pair, now I have to go get two more if Shay and I want to join the war. She has a few favorite shows that she likes to use her own toys to help her play like Number Blocks that she can make out of her own blocks. She has an owl, cat, and dino that become the PJ masks unless she is in the tub then it is a sea horse, turtle, and sea lion. Her imagination is amazing!

Shay 

She likes to join in on most games that Claire is playing but sometimes comes up with silly things all on her own like pillow case ghosts. Hers fell off one and she put it over her head instead of letting me fix it so Claire copied her and they fell over their bikes and toys until they got sick of it. Her smile for the camera is getting so good especially when I use my fancy new camera to take Sunday dress up pictures. She is in love with looking at herself when we scroll through my phone camera roll so of course she wants a turn taking pictures. Chris was able to get her to count all the way to 10! Her words are still rounded and doesn't have the precise letters in most of them, but I understand a lot of things she is saying these days. The inflection of "your welcome" is probably the cutest and it makes me happy because she is so helpful and polite.

Exercise

For a while my exercise has been 3 days of a full body weight lifting regimen with bike rides or walking to the park in the evening and extra cardio on my off days. I'll be taking a break while on my trip to visit family, but I'll be getting into 5 days of weights like Chris does and might not get as many bike rides. I enjoy listening to books and podcasts for my hour long bike rides and usually follow the same track up and down a minor road with a bike lane. I get a lot of sun from it but I don't know if you can tell from the picture. Sometimes I pass a house that loves to decorate, for summer there are a million windmills, and Halloween was VERY decked out. I didn't think to go that direction when it was "winter" because I wasn't doing as much biking, but I do wonder how crazy their Christmas decorations were.