Playing Catch-up

Wow, it's been ages since I've updated (6 months actually). So much has been going on. Christian and Anilyse left for the summer to spend time at their Mom's house. It was a nice break, but it's good to have them back home. They started school last week.

Well, let's start back 6 months ago, shall we?

Natalie started swimming again in Grammy's pool and was really having a good time with it. We had a hard time finding a floatie suit that would fit her itty-bitty body!






Um... can you say OUCH?!?!?!




(So here are a few more photos in chronoligical order of this catch-up post)
April 19th:




So, then in the begining of May, we found our city's community pool has a splash pad.






I know... right?

She hated the hat. Stinker.

Christian was a bit alusive on this particular trip. He was too busy trying to wrestle the water cannon out of some punk kid's hands.









Some more random photos from May:

Natalie started eating at the table with her brother & sister.


Anilyse made this wonderful fashion statement.


Natalie made a statement of her own (see the diaper??). Don't ask.


And the triumphant debut of the pigtails!


We hit the splash pad again at the end of May (and again with the bee suit, which Daddy this is cruel and unusual punishment):









Then at the begining of June I bought a potty for the bathroom because Natalie showed an interest of sitting down on the scale and reading while I was, ahem, going potty. So.....









She hasn't gotten the hang of it yet.

We braved the heat took a few trips to the park while Bubba & Sissy were gone:










Then 4th of July came around. We spent the day at Grammy & Grampy's house in the pool. We have found a floatie suit that fits her well now and she swims all by herself like a fish!











And these are just a few of her acting silly:











Then we met Aunt Jodi and counsin Ashley in Orlando at Downtown Disney and stayed in Port Orleans!










Then Christian and AJ came back from North Carolina and had lots of snuggle time with everyone!

WTF?

Edith Ann?

I see a resemblance...

Expressions

I forgot to post these photos. I took some self portraits of me and Nati one day. She was rather curious and perplexed by the whole thing. Her expressions in this crack me up.

Morning

Anyone else have this kind of morning?

New Blog

For years I've been tinkiering at having a home business. I started "Little Bee Custom Designs" unofficially back in 2002. I've made dozens of invitations, announcements and other stationery since then, mainly for family members and friends. I did have a few actual paying customers along the way who I didn't know! How exciting!

I recently completed some shower invitations for a dear friend of mine and the Little Bee bug stung me again. I've decided to start back up and see where this takes me.

I started a blog to show a few designs and to give me a bit of a web presence.
The address is
http://littlebeecusstomdesigns.blogspot.com

Very brief update

Things have been moving at such a fast pace lately! Natalie is growing like a WEED. Here's some recent photos of her. She's having such a great time at this age. Developementally she hasn't hit any big milestones lately. She still has only 4 teeth, she's not talking too much - she makes the sounds dada, baba, yaya, eee and tttttssssssssstttttttttthhhhhh (how do you spell that??)

She LOVES playing on our swingset outside... Here's a video of her going down the slide all by herself!

I also have a video of her climbing up the ladder to the slide by herself too! WHEW... this child is MOVING!!!