Life is CRAZY!!

It's amazing how fast life passes....but that doesn't seem to lessen the insanity of it. We've been doing lots of new things...Mario started a new job last week on Monday. It will be a good thing, but it's always hard starting something new. He's still downtown, so commuting. The kids are having a summer. Unfortunately, we haven't done much, because Mario hasn't been able to take time off, and I'm not about to try to take them anywhere on my own. Well, in my defense, I'm trying to get my courage up to take them to the petting zoo next week.

Sophia competed her two volleyball camps and is looking forward to tryouts, the second week of August. She had a great time at girls camp and is having fun with her friends in the neighborhood.

Alanna vasilates between being excited about Spanish Immersion and fear that it will be too hard. She's growing tall and learning alot....she reads voraciously and if I can't find her...I can count on her being tucked away somewhere reading two or three books.

Isabelle switched roommates....she's now downstairs with Alanna...I'm not sure if this is a good thing yet or not. The intent was that she would hopefully rub off with her neat freak ways on Alanna. Instead there has been an exhibition of roller derby queen behavior. On both of their parts. Not sure how I'm going to deal with that yet.

Elizabeth now shares a room with Gabby. Again, the jury is out on whether or not it was a good move. She is so excited to start Kindergarten in a few weeks. She's reading some and doing some fun math. It will be fun to see how she takes to school.

Gabby is growing and talking like a maniac. She's also fiercely independent. Insists on putting her own seatbelt on, putting her own shoes on, doing everything for herself. Saturday, she wanted a popsicle, and Mario told her no. A while later we went looking for her because she'd disappeared and found her in the kitchen eating a popsicle, cut open at both ends and dripping. The scissors were sitting on the counter (where she had put them after retreaving them from the box ON TOP of the fridge. She'd even put the chair back after using it to climb up there. The girl is TROUBLE with a capitol T!!

Sammie's growing like crazy. She is crawling, and cruising along the furniture, and she's thinking about walking here soon. She flirts and plays with people everywhere we go. She's a fun girl. A smarty too.

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Here are some of the LO's I've made since my last post:


This one was for a "Swap" with an online friend...she scrapped my photos and I did hers.