last days of summer

and this is how we spent our last day of abbie's summer vacation- not too silly!

love

molly is sure going to miss abbie when she is in school!

can you tell they're sisters???

fairy princess bed

abbie got a fairy princess canopy for her bed
her sisters love it too- here they are waking abbie up her first morning in the new setup

you can see that abbie really isn't awake yet- but her sisters sure are!

pretty braids

abbie wanted french braids one day- she has such pretty hair!

and then she wanted me to take a picture of her whole outfit...doesn't she look great?

helicopter

abbie proudly shows her helicopter drawing in the chalk book that aunt arline sent from the eric carle museum

i'm not really sure how she even knew how to draw a helicopter...but it came out great!

my blankie

for some reason one night abbie wanted to cuddle up with her blankie this way- and i found her an hour later with it still wrapped around her head- too much!

fun in the playroom

on a hot summer day the basement playroom is the place to be.
here's sophie crawling through the tube

and abbie

and molly

abbie wanted to take a picture with the camera

sophie loves the motorized motorcycles and rides them by herself- doesn't she really look like a biker babe in this shot?

and this one too?

and it's so much more fun to push a car than ride it!

crescent park carousel

When we were younger Aunt Ginny would take Nathan and me to the carousel- now she has started the tradition with my girls and they just love it!
we got there a bit early and sophie couldn't understand why she couldn't get on the horses

picking out which horse they want to ride

it's so hard to wait!

molly was too short for the picture so aunt ginny picked her up

my little sailors

aunt ginny gets a ride

not sure which girl liked the ride the most...

abbie trying to reach for the ring

and sophie rode all by herself- she just loved it

she didn't want me to hold onto her so i stood behind her horse and got the rings

sophie and molly messing around with necklaces on our picnic after the carousel

a little kiss

this was a hard shot to get as sophie kept turning around to pick the flowers

a great day for all!

more cuddlebugs

watching tv

cuddlebugs

i couldn't resist taking a picture of molly and sophie the other night- my little cuddlebugs!

yarn baby

abbie and molly had made birds in nests at library storytime and now that sophie is crawling she is into everything that she can reach- this morning she took apart the birds' nests- and did she have fun!

and yes, these are halloween jammies she has on- it's tough being the third child! ;-)

smudgicles

for somes reason abbie thought the real name of fudgesicles was smudgicles and the name has stuck- both she and molly ask for them by that name. it is nice for her to be able to have a low carb treat- the low sugar kind- and best of all to get messy!