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Happy Birthday Makena!
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Sunday, June 22, 2008
They're three!
Another year has passed and the Briggs, Pays, and Whites celebrated their firstborns with another big birthday bash! This year we had a water party in Bradley's back yard with no less than 80 friends. The highlight for the kids (and some very jealous parents) was a big orange waterslide. See exhibit A.
Happy Third Birthday, Makena, Keller and Bradley!
For fun- here they are last year and this year.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Changes in latitude
We've been a motley crew of traveling fools of late. A week ago, we packed up and headed south to the beach in SC. We shared a house with two other families- between us we totalled six daughters ranging in age from 4.5 to nearly-2 (Reese was the youngest). You might think the husbands felt outnumbered, but these three have pleasantly accepted lives filled with estrogen.
We spent hours in the pool and at the beach. Brett and I were both still a little nervous about how Reese would react to the water (both the pool and ocean were yet untested after her pond incident)- she hated the ocean (not uncommon) but she absolutely ate up the pool. Yea!! We worked on skills....like jumping into the water...
...skills that are, conveniently, transferrable to the lake! This past weekend we packed up again and headed northeast to visit Brett's parents at the lake. Much more jumping occurred.
From our family to yours...we wish you all good wedgies.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Changes in attitude
Our children are masters of this art. They can go from loving to aggravating in 2 seconds flat. I'm told this, too, shall pass. Sometime after they go to college.
Their developmental stages are intersecting now to make some incredible moments. The other morning, after dressing herself (correctly), Makena sprinted into the living room and announced to Reese "I got dressed all by myself!" to which Reese responded "good job, Kema!!". Cue the melting maternal heart. They have taken to reading together. Makena will take Reese's favorite counting book and tell Reese "count these red apples" and Reese will launch into "one, two, three, four, three, six".
The flip side to those moments are also incredible. Milk theiving is one of Reese's favorite activities. Makena takes pleasure in telling Reese to "go away" at any given moment. Reese, in turn, tells Mommy to "go away". Fun times.
I must take a moment to give props to the world's most patient dogs. Maggie has become the favorite target of the "dump water on anything that moves" game when we're playing at the water table. Both dogs put up with various children using them as pillows and punching bags. Reese has decided she wants to be eye-to-ear with the dogs every time they eat. They're good dogs.
Their developmental stages are intersecting now to make some incredible moments. The other morning, after dressing herself (correctly), Makena sprinted into the living room and announced to Reese "I got dressed all by myself!" to which Reese responded "good job, Kema!!". Cue the melting maternal heart. They have taken to reading together. Makena will take Reese's favorite counting book and tell Reese "count these red apples" and Reese will launch into "one, two, three, four, three, six".
The flip side to those moments are also incredible. Milk theiving is one of Reese's favorite activities. Makena takes pleasure in telling Reese to "go away" at any given moment. Reese, in turn, tells Mommy to "go away". Fun times.
I must take a moment to give props to the world's most patient dogs. Maggie has become the favorite target of the "dump water on anything that moves" game when we're playing at the water table. Both dogs put up with various children using them as pillows and punching bags. Reese has decided she wants to be eye-to-ear with the dogs every time they eat. They're good dogs.
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