Fun day at Daddy's work!

Today Dave's work had a family day! It was tons of fun - J and M bounced on the moonbounce, ate cotton candy, candy apples, and popcorn, watched a dog show, and watched a water skiing show. They also had the fire department there. Josh went and talked with the fireman for quite a while, doing a really good job of carrying on a conversation. He said, "You take kitties out of trees? We have kitties - Reuben and Judah" He turned to us and said, "I talk to fireman!" They also had a lumberjack show - Miri was given a little cedar chair. Anyhow, here are the pictures of J and M with the firefighters:

Miri and the water bucket

What's this? A bucket of water?

At last! I can properly soak my cuticles!

Blowin' bubbles

J and M

Look at us! Aren't we cute!

C'mon Sis!

Driving the race car

I'm coming to see the picture!

Opening Gifts!

Josh and Alex

Miriam's birthday cake!

She has her cake, and can eat it too!

Busyness as the norm...

Again, we've had a very busy week. Josh continues with his swimming lesson. This week he did a little bit better, not clinging to the instructor's neck, but not much. Miri had her birthday, and her doctor's appointment. She just keep growing and growing! We have lots of birthday pictures and other pictures to come, that I will upload as soon as I can.

I am getting ready to teach 2s and 3s in our Wednesday night church, so that should be interesting. We are very excited though about this year. Hopefully I can get another adult to help out in the class though!

Big changes...

We've moved Miriam in Josh's room! Right now I can hear them both screaming....but Dave is in there with them so it'll be okay. This is Miri's first night in a big girl bed. The trick is to teach her that she must stay in the bed, which means a lot of reinforcement on the first night. So Dave and I have been taking turns for the past 45 minutes. But Josh is distracting her and keeping her from falling asleep, so now they've just hit that point where they are so tired taht they can't do anything except scream. I wonder how long it will take for us to give in and move her back?

In other news, Josh started swimming lessons yesterday. The indoor pool at the Y was still closed, so he got to swim in the outside pool. It was an exciting adventure: the initial dash to the pool, the trip to the disgusting locker room, the sigh of relief from Mama since he was already in his swim trunks, the tentative putting of feet in the water, the clinging frantically to the instructors neck, the loud screams for Mama that caused the Active Older Adults to stop in their watery motions, the gradual change to "hey, this is fun!", and the screaming upon leaving the pool. It was a good thing there were only four children in the class. We got there early too, so Josh had some one on one time before the rest of the kids got there. Next week, the transition should go smoother. I hope.

Holding the baby with the baby.

Opening presents

Miri's pretty, but allergic reaction causing dress

The first day

Miri played shy at first with Mamaw and Poppy - the big pouty lip, the looking away, occasionally smiling but then frowning as soon as she realizes it...the people in the church nursery know what I'm talking about! We went to the Arts, Beats and Eats festival soon after. Josh saw a clown at one of the shows and he absolutely loved him! I'm going to have to find somewhere where he can see a clown again - hmmm, a circus, perhaps?

Before the visit...

Miri and Josh had fun getting ready. Here's Miri posing in the bathroom.

Had to get one of Josh in there too! (Reuben's in the background!)