Let the Summer Begin

Last weekend for Memorial Day we spent the whole weekend swimming at my parents house.  My kids love to swim and be in the water and we usually swim about 5 days out of 7 all summer long.  I have had all three of my babies in the water pretty much right after they are born.  They seem to all love it right from the start...which is a good thing living in Texas!  Gotta love the swimming pool to survive the 100+ degree heat here!  

Anyways, our weekend consisted of lots of food, family, and fun.  We swam all three days and just relaxed by the pool.  It was a great way to kick off our summer and we look forward to making many more memories this year!  There is nothing sweeter than a bunch of sun-kissed little girls running around outside!  

 Jillian and Jules...always start out their summers getting used to the water in the hot tub (which isn't hot)

 Baby P thinking about getting in

 Mimi and P

 Something about Jules in goggles and piggy tails just gets me all giddy.  She is so stinkin cute!

 I could just eat her up

 Jilly is my more sophisticated girl

 P did a lot of napping by the pool...

 same picture...different day...different suit

 Mimi has always been able to rock my babies to sleep outside

 day 2

 sisters

 Jules is totally loving her birthday bike.  She could just pedal around the pool forever

 off she goes

 Pretty Jilly

 Dad, Seth and Mason played football in these chairs for hours...trying hard to balance.  They had a great time!

 biking around

 You can't celebrate summertime poolside without a little watermelon!

 Here is Aunt K...texting!

 Helping Mimi water her plants

 Papaw and Paisley

 Papaw loves his girls

 Here are the girls making smores...the city way on the grill!

 roasting marshmallows

 yummy!

 Jules before she got to the chocolate part of the smore...

 Jilly enjoying hers

 Jules after she got into the chocolate.  YUCK!  When will this child NOT be the messiest eater???

 Aunt K's boyfriend Mason with P after a much needed bath

(for P...not Mason)

 Papaw, P, and Mimi (with the ghost of Kourtney looming the background)

 Me and P

 sleeping again

 On Monday, the Dale girls joined us for some swimming

 Seth playing a little ball

 P falling asleep on her momma.  Her head is wet from the pool, not sweat.

 playing games

 Ansley teaching swimming school!

Paisley is 3 Months

 Paisley turned three months old last week.  She has truly turned into the VERY best baby EVER!  She is happy, smiles all the time, rarely cries, and sleeps so good!  She started sleeping through the night about 2 weeks ago.  When I say sleeping through the night, I mean she is sleeping from around 8:30 pm to almost 7:00 am every night.  Now I am not trying to brag about her by any means, because I have had NON-good babies in the past!  I have paid my dues!  But my #3 surely is a good girl!

She is a really good eater and eats a lot throughout the day.  With Jillian, I did Baby Wise, and I was so strict about her eating every three hours.  I was a little more easy going with Jules.  And with Paisley, I am just really trying to do what makes her happy.  I don't just shove a bottle into her mouth every time she cries, but I am also not trying to be a drill sargeant!  She eats smaller amounts more often in the day...and I think that routine is working great for us.  When we went in for her 2 month appt, she weighed 9 pounds and 10 ounces, so I imagine that she is up to maybe almost eleven pounds by now. 

 Paisley is also really enjoying some of her toys now.  She LOVES to lay under this one floor toy with all these hanging toys and a mirror.  She loves the mirror the most and just stares at herself.  Who can blame her...she is so cute! I just want to stare at her too! She also has this one baby doll that she gets so excited to see evertime I pull it out.  A few weeks ago, she would try so hard to move her arms to touch it, but couldn't quite get her arms to do what she wanted.  I noticed in church on Sunday though, that she was able to touch the doll...so I guess her motor skills (or whatever they are) are starting to mature!

And finally, she has started to loose her hair.  I thought she might loose it all over night like Jillian did.  So far, however, it just seems to be thinning out the dark stuff, and there is a lot of blonde underneath.  So, my girl is going to be a blondie like the rest of us.  I knew she would, but I certainly have enjoyed her pretty dark hair while it lasted!

Paisley at 3 months

For comparison:



 Jillian at 3 months



Jules at 3 months



The Last Day of School

The last day of school was so bittersweet for me this year.  I am so excited to have the girls home and to not have to be anywhere every single morning.  I love the no-schedule part of the summer.  I love to just go take the girls swimming every day or the library or to lunch.  I am so happy about that!  But, knowing that Jillian was forever done with preschool really made that day sad for me.  The girls had a blast though...as usual.  They love school.  They love their teachers and their friends and I know they will miss them this summer.  Here are the girls on the last day wearing their butterfly dresses to honor their school!

 Jillian and her teacher Ms. Beth

Jules with Ms. Holly and Ms. Nancy

Splash Day

The last week of school, Jillian's class had splash day.  J was so excited to wear a new bathing suit and get to play in the water with all of her friends.  The night before, she laid out her suit, cover up, and flip flops that she planned to wear.  Even her towel had to be picked out to match everything!  This girl is QUITE the fashionista people.  The weather again worked out great and the kids were really able to spend their last day together having a blast!  I wore P again in my Bjorn and thankfully Summer kept Jules for me so that I could try and help in some way. 

Ready to party

Pizza Party

Precious Class

And shes off...her and her two girl friends (and everyone else for that matter) ran from one thing to the other for the first ten minutes non-stop.  I don't think they even stopped to enjoy what they were doing!

waiting to slip and slide

little chilly!!!

(and it looks like we are loosing our top)

Here is Jillian in the pink pool.  There were 2 blue pools, 2 green pools, and a pink pool.  I watched Jillian the whole time knowing exactly what she was doing.  She never even touched the other pools...only the pink one.  Her friends would, but she always ended up here.  She never even said it out loud to me, but she didn't have to.  That is how Jillian rolls.

Good buddies!  Wish I had tightedned the suit a little earlier...oops!

they drew in shaving cream

LOTS of shaving cream

they washed cars

and of course got tattoos!

Field Trip to Central Park

The week before school got out, Jillian's class had a field trip to a local park.  My girls were really trying to understand the concept of a field trip...and I kept trying to explain it in a way that they would understand.  Jules finally said on our way there..."Are we at the field trip yet?"  All the kids had the greatest time and we were lucky to have the best overcast weather with no rain and no hot sun!  This worked out good for me since I had to wear Baby P and chase Jules all around.  Here is Jilly and her sweet friends.

 

 

I don't know what these two will do without eachother next year.  They have been inseparable for two years now!

 

silly girl!  She was DYING to wear this outfit because her American Girl has a matching one. 

Jules and her buddy Avery

 

 

 

This is Mr. Wilson...he works up at our school doing all sorts of stuff.  His son is in Jillian's class and they are good buddies.  Well, Jules LOVES Mr. Wilson!  She has to wave and talk to him every morning before school!  So funny!  She is shy with her own teachers, but will talk to Wilson anytime!

 

hanging out

 

Me and P...being such a good girl

 

Texas Day At School

A couple of weeks ago, Jillian's class had Texas day at school.  They were supposed to dress up in all Cowboy stuff and then they were learning all about Texas that day!  It was really cute and the kids looked adorable.  I wish I had taken a picture of her whole class.  

So, you all see from pictures on my blog how Jillian likes to dress every day...in all pink and always dresses.  Cowboy attire is not something that we have plenty of in our house.  I was really scrambling for something for her to wear.  Luckily, Summer had some boots for her girls for occasions just like this.  Jillian's hat is my lay out hat that I got at Sam Moon!  It worked though and I think my little Texas girl turned out looking adorable! 

YEE HAW!

 

 

And of course here is Jules...feeling a little left our of the pictures