July 2012

It's July... and William's 1st birthday!!!  We enjoyed a fun first half of the month at home. We celebrated the 4th of July with crafts and old fashioned fest in Winter Park, had a super fun visit with Auntie Snuff, and celebrated William's 1st birthday with a photo session with our awesome photographer Jen and a family party!

Madelyn continues her "summer school work" with lots of crafts, songs, books, and alphabet fun.  She continues to love pretend play and gets a lot of ideas from her favorite books.  This month, she really loves reading about Pinkalicious and spent many hours working her pink lemonade stand.

William is a busy, busy little boy! He loves investating EVERYTHING!  In honor of my little monkey, his birthday party and cake theme was monkeys... oo oo ee ee!!

June 2012

WOW! I am seriously behind on my blogging for our little family. 

June was a great first month of summer!  We had lots of fun with our activities and classes and fun at home doing crafts and playing. 

Madelyn and Mommy also started doing "ABC" projects and crafts. Madelyn continues her School Skills class at Gymboree and had a great month with trips to the park, swimming, and playdates with friends.

William turned 11 months this month and is on the MOVE... walking, walking, walking!!  He is a curious little baby and into everything!  He LOVES his baby class at Gymboree, sometimes getting upset when we leave.

At the end of the month, we took our very first vacation as a family of four.  We went to Disney's resort at Vero Beach with our good friends the Tillman Family.  We had a really wonderful time!!  The kids all had such fun playing together.  They really liked the marshmellow roasting at the nightly campfire, liked the sand and surf at the beach, and LOVED the Mickey shaped pool and all it's activites.  The grown-ups had a lot of fun too and Mommy and Daddy enjoyed having extra hands to help out! :)



May 2012

May was a month of visitors and fun!  Nana and Poppy came at the beginning of the month.  We celebrated Nana's birthday (belatedly) and Mother's Day (early) together.  Mommy and Daddy were in for a big treat while Nana and Poppy's visited... their first time away since having Madelyn!  YAY!  We stayed at a lovely resort near Disney World and had some much needed together time.  The kids had a terrific time with Nana and Poppy while Mommy and Daddy were  "away".  Also during Nana and Poppy's visit was another trip to the Science Center.  Everyone had a blast!


Madelyn had her 4 year old check at the beginning of the month.  She was a real trooper taking the seeing and hearing tests and blood pressure check (seriously?!), and multiple shots in stride.  She was a real chatter box with her doctor who thought she was a very smart, inquisitive child. Since her visit to the doctor, Madelyn has been frequently playing doctor to her dollies, William, Mommy, Daddy, and occasionally Molly (poor dog).  Madelyn had a super fun last month at preschool. She and Mommy really enjoyed the Mother's Day Tea, and all had fun at Water Day, and on the last day of school party.  She will really miss her teacher but we've already made plans for playdates with her school buddies this summer. 


William turned 10 months and... well... his pictures are worth a thousand words.  He is everywhere and into everything.  Mr. Busy is endlessly fascinated by sounds and textures and continues to love his baby classes at Gymboree and library storytime.  We started going to Family Gymboree and he gets a kick out of scooting after the "big" kids.  He has started playing games and loves Peek-a-Boo, blowing raspberries, and Uh-oh!  He and his sister make Mommy laugh everyday. 


At the end of the month, we had a terrific visit with Mimi and Auntie Laura.  Mommy got to spend the day with them at Universal (thanks Daddy!) and we all had fun at SeaWorld and Downtown Disney.  The kids ate up the extra attention and Mimi and Laura were very fun playmates!

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Video:  Peek-A-Boo!

Video:  I love you!  (This cracked me up!  Madelyn took this video of herself after I left my iphone in the playroom while I went to change William's diaper. Love this girl!)