coronado beach, the best place to be on a random thursday in august.

katers:

i wonder at what age you will stop taking your clothes off in public?

[so help me if anyone says 25!]

at least we were able to convince you to keep your unders on.

never a dull moment.

love you crazy kid.

the sea.

jank:

thanks for taking a random thursday off from work.

spending the day with you and the girls was wonderful.

living in yuma has it's downfalls,

being 2.5 hours from san diego is definitely not one of them.

thanks for the great day.

love,

bug

[more photos to come... in 5 years [give or take 3 years]. because that'll probably be when i can find time ;) ]

6 months old.

hey miss evers:

today for lunch you had green beans, squash and a bottle
[the last was completely unappreciated by you. it's a chore to get you to finish a bottle these days].
what the what?!?
i swear i blink and 2 months goes flying by.
when did you start sitting in a high chair and pounding jars of baby food?
oh man does life with the second kid whiz by.
soon you'll be toddling around and i'll have my pots and pans strewn across the house.
but not yet, thank heavens.

right now we're just working on rolling to the left.
rolling to the right is easy peasy [a feat first accomplished on july 24th while in utah].
but that left shoulder gets you every time.
sometimes i see you narrow your eyes when trying to roll to the left and i swear you're thinking,
'damn you left shoulder!'
but maybe that's just me projecting.


also, please continue with the jowls.
they're everyones favorite and do wonders for brightening up my bad days.
a little nibble clears up my anxiety right quick.


you had a lovely visit with you pediatrician recently for your 6 month check.
you weighed in at 16 lbs 5 ounces.
you're 26 inches long.
and that's about how big kate was when she turned a year old-
way to go chunkaloo!

when i was pregnant, tired and so very weary of having heartburn;
i remember wishing for a healthy, happy, fat baby.
looks like i got my wish.

.

back to school.

dear God,

just a quick note to say thanks for making 3 year olds so easily excitable.
sure, it makes for some long days when i hear myself say fifty times-
'kate! please quit squealing and jumping on the couch'
but on days like today [when a certain mama forgot it was show-and-tell at school]
i'm so glad 3 year olds are easily impressed-
'look kate! two quarters i found under my seat! want to take them to show-and-tell?!'
'oh wow. money! YEAAAAAAA!'

mom's a hero.
end scene.

thanks God.
you make me look good.


ps. if it's not asking too much, do you think you could put a stop to evelyn's diarrhea? we're going on 9 days of blowouts and i'm just a wee bit tired of it. if not, that fine. i'm sure you've got plenty else to worry about.

back to real life

late sunday night we returned from our week-long trip to utah.
we were able to see both jank's and my family and some good friends.
it was wonderful.

thank heavens for time away.

it gave jank and i time to reconnect,

something we both desperately needed.

we were able to take a step back from everyday life and reprioritize 

[spell check says reprioritize is not a word. it's a word isn't it???]

my goal this week is to get all the vacation pictures uploaded and edited
because try as i might, i'm still not a very good photog so editing is a must.
we shall see how productive i can be.

productivity. what an elusive beast.


::thought tangent::
i'm sure i'm not the only one who feels like i can never get anything done.
it's sad how quickly i disregard playing with my kids as 'productive time'.
i have to remind myself when i'm squished into a kid-size chair, coloring and cutting with my katers, that those moments are my most productive and they need to be cherished.
i need to remember these wise words:

amen.

from may 31st. when it was only 100 degrees.

kate:

remember this day eons ago?

we went to one of yuma's splash pad's

[according to my coworkers we went to the wrong one. there's two splash 

pads in town and somehow we chose the old, decrepit one] 

 and we tried to have a great outing with our friends.

remember how you whined almost the entire time?

and refused to eat your lunch?

and sucked on someone's discarded batman pez dispenser?

and got hepatitis C from said dispenser?

[ok, so maybe that last one was an exaggeration but seriously kid, 

don't pick up discarded toys and put them in your mouth!!!]

soooo much fun.

at least life isn't dull.

love you despite your hep C.