Lovely Lake Memories:)

Elisabeth and Isabella in Elisabeth's new kayak.

My grandmother's house on the lake....

Jennifer and Lucy

Shane with the girls

Liam

Liam and Isabella 'pant-less' fishing.

Not sure what they were looking at-in either picture!!!

Trying to find Lucy's bellybutton.

Lucy's attempt at fishing in Bella's underwear.

Isabella with her great-grandmother.

Isabella taking Lucy for a little ride:)

Jen celebrating her 34th birthday at the Lone Star.

Liam and Bella pretending they were Spider Men caught in a web.

Shane and Jen's home away from home:)

Lucy enjoying her first experience with Pop Rocks.

Sharing the sucker stick with daddy.

Pepperoni and dirt...YUM!

Shane fishing on the dock with Bella and Liam.

We had a WONDERFUL at the lake with everyone:) Liam and Isabella finally reached the point of actually playing together and were inseparable for most of the time. The only fights they had were over the fishing pole, a puzzle, or when Isabella used the word 'idiot'. He slapped her on the back and yelled, "WE DON'T USE THAT WORD!!!". I have a feeling he has used worse which is why he is such a little rule follower now:)

Off to the lake...

We are in Syracuse and will, hopefully, be on our way to Canada in 30 minutes (if I have any thing to say about it). We are meeting up with my mom and Shane, Jen, Liam, and Lucy at my grandmother's lake house. We are all sharing my brother's new RV (minus mom)....I promise there will be pictures AND stories when I get back on Thursday:)

No worries...the roads were closed off to all traffic:)


Bella reading to a not-so-happy Blake. He tolerated her for about 30 seconds and then went and hid under the bed.

3 Year Old Check Up

No shots!!! Whoo Hoo!!! I forgot exactly how tall she is but I am pretty sure she is a little over 3 feet and almost 3o pounds which equals the 50th percentile on the American charts!!! The doctor is pretty sure she won't be tall given her extremely short birth parents but I will take petite-something I have always wanted to be:)

Besides the height and weight, the doctor also wanted to know how she is doing socially and emotionally. She also asked me if she spoke. Are you kidding me?? The kid never shuts up but do you think she spoke in the office. NOT ONCE!!! She shook her head, shrugged her shoulders, and followed directions but did not make one peep. I wish she could have heard her tonight on the way home for the Art's Festival...

"Mommy, when we get home I want to give Elisabeth a cookie to make her feel better and it will be cool."

"Mommy, I opened the window with my foot! I am a good girl. I can open it with my hand but I opened it with my foot."

Just when you think they have grown up.....

they decide to buy a doll with their 'good grade' money:) Elisabeth fell in love with an Asian doll with long, straight hair. We found a great deal on eBay and she is, at this moment, downstairs with all of her dolls setting up a nursery. At 12 years old, I guess I should be extremely happy she is in not in the basement with a boy:)

Oh, the tantrums.

My mother-in-law commented on Isabella's impeccable behavior this past weekend. She thought she would see her hitting and biting and throwing temper tantrums. She left 2 days too soon. The first one occurred at a outdoor party this afternoon at 4. She spilled orange soda down her dress and proceeded to slug me because she was sticky. The second one was on the way home from the party when, for no apparent reason, she screamed for 29.5 minutes and no amount of coaxing, joking, threatening, coddling, or ignoring would stop her. A change of scenery worked-for about 5 minutes. She decided that Part III of Isabella and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Afternoon was in order. She started screaming again and when the blatant ignoring on my part was not working for her, she stepped out from behind my chair and hit me 3 times and the last one hurt. I won't tell you what I did as I climbed the stairs but it caused me to be quite winded by the time her little butt hit her bed.

I think she was saving up this sweet behavior just for my eyes. Lucky me:)

Our weekend in pictures:)

No, this is not our purchase...it is my brother's!!! And he is using it to get to Syracuse in 1 week!!! YEAH!!! How cool would it be to have a traveling toilet with 2 toddlers???

Shane and Liam pondering sharing some father/son time.

Lucy rock climbing...in her crocs:)

Sleepy little camper:)

Lucy debating how she is going to get Piper out of her princess chair.

Jen, the ultimate organizer, with her little bundles of joy:)

Doesn't she look like she is holding on for dear life?? I am pretty sure it was parked:)

Grandma Carole....dancing in the street.

Grandpa Ron riding plasma cars with Isabella.

Racing down the sidewalk...

The most beautiful rainbow appeared out of the blue!!! And then it poured rain!!


The fireworks on the 4th of July....

which went on for about 30 solid minutes....

and cost about 400,000 dollars!!! Just like burning pretty, sparkly money...


Thanks for the great weekend, Grandma and Grandpa!!!

Miscellaneous pictures I found on my iPhone...

Nanny and Isabella-not sure if they were talking or singing:)

Blowing out her candle on her hot fudge ice cream sundae:)

She wears a sombrero well, doesn't she??

Where she'd go??

There she is!

Spinning for a free birthday surprise...she won a 2.00 dollar gift certificate!

MAJOR Connors teaching his darling niece how a lady drinks tea - pinky up and all!