Sprinklers

I figured out how to turn on our sprinklers and let the girls run through them one evening. 

Look Mom, it's a puppy!

Fountain

Our local fountain has had some issues this summer, and it needed to close for a couple weeks. We decided to go down one evening before it closed. It had been turning off for a half an hour every two hours, so I checked the schedule to make sure we didn't arrive just as it turned off. Despite me checking the schedule, it turned off about 5 minutes after we arrived. The girls hadn't even touched it.

This was Harper's "I don't want to leave" face.

We waited around for about 45 minutes before we finally left. Of course the fountain turned on as we were driving away:).

Raindrop Walks

Sometime this summer, the girls started asking for umbrellas and sleeping bags. I told them to put them on their Christmas lists, but my trip to Seattle seemed like the perfect opportunity to buy them umbrellas as a souvenir. The girls love their ladybug umbrellas, and ask to go for raindrop walks any time it rains. Our neighbors' sprinklers work in the case of no rain:)

3 Years and 4 Months!

The summer is flying by, and before you know these two cuties are going to be 3 and a half!

At 3 years and 4 months:

• The girls still love all things puppies. Real puppies, stuffed puppies, and Paw Patrol. People still get confused and think they're talking about real puppies when the girls say they want to show their puppies.
• They are obsessed with our new neighbors. They have two pre-teen girls and a 7-year old son, and the girls are constantly asking to go to the neighbors to play and see the guinea pigs. It's a good thing that our new neighbors are really nice.
• They still burst into Let It Go on a regular basis.
• They wear size 4T shirts and size 3T pants. They wear size 8 shoes.
• They sleep from about 9 until 7, although they are often awake until after 10 these days. Bedtime continues to be a struggle, and they come out of their bedroom many, many times before finally falling asleep. It's gotten a little better since I put up black out curtains and we started using a reward chart.
• The girls finally earned their My Little Pony Unicorns for making good choices. They know that the Unicorns are "good choice" unicorns that go away if they make bad choices (bad choices means hitting, biting, kicking, scratching).
• They love their blankies and puppies and big hugs and kisses. They love our nursery rhyme books, and and Llama Llama.
• Tannah generally asks to wear her hair in a ponytail, while Harper prefers to have "crazy hair", but will allow me to put in a braid if I insist, which I do because I hate when they have hair in their faces.
• The girls mostly pick out their own clothes and generally prefer to wear "skirts". Harper really dislikes wearing shorts.
• They love doing things as a family like "family dinners" and "family swims".
• They love going to the beach and swimming.