Day 164

We started our day early-- 7am the alarm goes off, and shortly after (I decided to snooze a bit!) both girls wake up on their own. Daddy was home today, and was awake before all of us, so he let us sleep in. :) I got us all dressed and ready to meet our walking group at the Dana Hills Park, which meets at 8:30 on Tuesdays. We meet three other Mommies & their kids, all families who live within a few blocks of us. There are 6 kids between all of us, and Penelope and Luciana both have buddies their own age! :) We walk the perimeter of the park, then park our strollers at the top of a staircase with 118 stairs. Two of us run up & down while the other two watch all the babies, and we alternate. Two more rounds of walking and stairs, then we head over to the park for planking and playing. Planking is the new workout craze that I can't do yet. I'm really in disbelief I even run up those stairs! About an hour later, we are all saying goodbye, since people have appointments, swim lessons and things like that. We stay longer for the kids to play when we all can, and have no appointments to rush off to. We all enjoy this new daily routine, but it is VERY hard getting us up and out so early!! :/ It's my only gripe-- but, this is what we'll do to have friends! Worth it, I guess. :) Anyway, we were sad that Daddy was called into work today while we were at the park, so he came to give is hugs & kisses and say goodbye on his way out. 

Luciana is doing so well sleeping in her crib in her bedroom alone! We are on night three, and she is a superstar in there, sleeping like a big girl-- no waking up every hour to nurse! We are over the moon proud of our baby girl, but Mama is even a little sad that our days of babies in  our bedroom is a thing of the past. Empty nest already!!?? ;) We are happy that our whole house is well on our way to sleeping all the way through the night now. Yay!!!

Here's Lulu at bathtime tonight:

That's it for tonight. I'll have to get pics of us at the park tomorrow.... Goodnight!