holiday world

 Our friends have been telling us about a place called Holiday World in Indiana.  They invited us to go with them this weekend.  We are so glad they invited us and so happy we went!  It was the best day!!  First of all, our friends are so much fun to hang out with.  Our kids all get along so well...they have the sweetest, cutest kids.  Holiday World was 3 hours from our house so we took off around 7:30 in the morning.  Heidi had a blast talking on the walkie talkies with Lincoln.  They kept telling each other knock

 knock jokes and it was hysterical.  Holiday World is a super fun, super clean, super family friendly amusement park and they also have a huge water park.  We did a couple of small rides at first but it was so hot we went over the water park.  It was a blast!!!  Heidi was tall enough to do some bigger, wilder rides and the little girls absolutely loved the wave pools and water slides.  It felt so good to cool off.  Then a big storm came through and they shut the rides down for about an hour while the storm passed.  We changed and ate and then headed over to the dry rides.

 Caimbree, as usual, was an absolute

 dream.  She really is the most enjoyable little girl. She was happy the whole day and always just rolls with whatever.  She loved the rides she could go on, especially the merry go round.

We stayed until they closed at 9pm and then watched a little bit of the firework show on our way out.  It was seriously the most fun day!  The drive home was hard because we were all just so exhausted, but the girls slept and I tried to talk Jeff's ear off to keep him awake.  I thought the girls would be grumpy today but they were so happy and spent most

 of the day talking and reliving their fun day.  We will definitely, definitely go back again!

oh savanna

Oh sweet Savanna.  This child.  What a funny little girl she is.  She says the funniest things, makes the funniest faces, and can be the biggest spitfire one second and the biggest, most loving cuddle bug the next.  She keeps us on our toes and we would so very sad if we did not have this little firecracker to keep things interesting.  She picked up talking and language a little slower and still sometimes gets words and phrases mixed up.  When she first started talking a lot she would mix her verbs and nouns all of the time and would confuse what word she wanted to use.  She is doing an awesome job and the sounds are coming along better now, but she still gets a few things mixed up.  The other day I was getting ready and putting my make up on.  She was sitting next to me looking through some pictures.

Savanna: Hey mom, remember when I was a black kid?

I about died laughing.  First of all, I was so confused because we really do not talk about race a lot and I know we have never even said anything like, 'Oh he/she is a black person/kid".  So it seemed extra funny she would even say something like that and it was so, so funny because why on earth would she say such a thing??  I was trying so hard not to burst out laughing.

I looked at the picture she was looking at and it was her newborn picture. We always tell her she had dark black hair and had so much hair she even had fuzzy black shoulders.  That must be where the confusion came.

Me: Oh, you mean, do I remember when you had black hair?
Savanna: Yeah.

I was laughing about that all.day.long.  I still am.  Savanna, you are the best.  Seriously.

doctor visits

 These pictures are from today and are the most recent of these two.  We went to Montgomery Bell Park with some friends to play in the creek.

Monday we had doctor well child checks for Heidi and Caimbree.  Heidi will be 6 in a few weeks and needed a physical before school.

Height: 42 3/4 in.--12%
Weight: 37.6 lbs--10%

She is healthy and can hear and see perfectly so that is great news!  She was not the best patient, she never is haha.  They pricked her finger and you would think they cut off her arm and she also had to do a urine sample and we ended up having to do it at home and then take it back.  Sigh.

Caimbree had her two year check up and had one shot to catch up on.  She was the perfect little patient and barely whimpered when she got her shot.  Why do I have the feeling she will not always be that great of a patient?  Maybe I will luck out and she will remain that way so I at least have one that it isn't traumatic for all of us by the time the appointment is over!

Height:  31.5 in--4%
Weight:  23.4 lbs--8%

I'm happy those appointments are over!  Savanna will have hers in the fall when she turns 4.

They are all growing so fast!!

time for a little catch up

 My July posting has not been terrific.  I realized the month is almost over and I have posted one time!  I have been so busy catching up on scrapbooks each night that I haven't made much time for the blog.  Here are a few pictures I found recently in my phone.  We have been swimming a few times with our friends.  Even after swim lessons, Caimbree seems to do the best.  We will see how long it takes before she picks up on her older sister's anxiety.  Hopefully she won't because she is so cute swimming and telling us she is kicking her legs.  This is her with her friend Lincoln.  She tells us she loves Lincoln and he is just so sweet to her.  It was funny because Caimbree is so shy and rarely talks when others are around.  She let her guard down and starting chattering to Lincoln and he goes, '"Whoa!  She knows how to talk?!"  It made me laugh.

 Heidi starts school on August 10...that is later than the other grades, but still way too early for me.  We have been reading during nap time and I am pretty sure I  might enjoy the time even more than she does.  So far Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is her favorite.  I am so going to miss her when she's at school all day next year.

 Jeff has been so busy but still managed to make time to build me a bookshelf for our bonus room.  I had all of the books organized in some attic space in the bonus room and nowhere to put them.   The girls have been so happy to have them all so easily accessible and, as always, he did such a beautiful job.  I can't wait to see the kitchen table he will be building soon.  What a talented man!  The first day the girls saw the shelf with all of their books in it they sat reading right in front of it for over an hour.  It was so fun to watch.  I love the little readers that they are and hope they will always
 enjoy reading!

fourth of july

 I am behind.  Very behind.  The last few weeks have been a whirlwind.  When I think about everything I need to catch up on, I get a little overwhelmed.  Now that we are unpacked and settled for the most part (we still have a few pictures to hang and a few odds and ends), I am desperately trying to catch up on documenting the last year of the girl's lives in their baby books and scrapbooks.

 We were still trying to settle in on Fourth of July.  We didn't want to pass it by though in spite of the craziness we were going through.  The girls were so excited to pick out red, white, and blue outfits.

The evening was actually a little rainy, but we still had a great time and saw some fireworks.  Our friends invited us to celebrate with them, which was very kind and we had a great time!  The girls were very tired by the time we got home!  They have been so busy enjoying all of the things they haven't seen in over a year.  They love the new house and so far have handled the new transition perfectly!