Day 307

Broken record alert! IT'S HOT. Like, real hot. We put both girls to bed with two fans going, and Lulu is sleeping without a swaddle for the first time in her life! 10 months, and she's sleeping like a baby should! :) Granted, it's only been two hours since I've taken her out of it, so we'll see how it goes, but I think she wS hot as heck & is feeling much better with the air hitting her arms & legs, just like we all have. I'm proud of her, in any case!!

We went to see Aunt Holly's house today-- she and Lily moved back down here from Oakland, and we are super happy they are back. :) Daddy helped her with moving, so we went to visit, and felt awful that they had to do it in the crazy heat we are having. :/ We came home, I put the babies in diapers only, gave them cool baths after a cool dinner (cereal) and tried not to roast too much. I can't wait for fall. I have a feeling it's nowhere near. 

I've been working on some projects for the girls' rooms & here is the latest, for Lulu's room:

It's small... And this one is in progress:

I sat stitching, watching Sleepless In Seattle (I've never seen that one!) alone (Papa passed out for the night at 7, right after the girls) and sweated... Just sitting there. Ugh! Ok, I will stop complaining now! Goodnight.

Ah! Just got a few pix from Mana from Holly & Lily's... 

Day 306

We are still dealing with excessive heat here. The girls and I are trying our best to keep cool any way we can: pool, hose, ice water to drink, and I even took the long way home from the store today so we could enjoy the ac just a bit longer. :) I promise not to complain when it gets cold, I will smile that gets annoying! 

We had a long day today, and P didn't nap well, and that threw our whole day off. Lulu is kinda crawling just a little more, giving her Mama the best, most proud feeling ever, today! :) She's dying to follow P, so she's making herself do it. 

Here are the girls during bathtime tonight... And somebody's call for help :/ 

Thank goodness for the silence between 7pm and 11pm (when, of course, I then miss my babies. Go figure) 

Daddy won't be working tomorrow, but will be helping Aunt Holly move back into her Long Beach house. The girls are gonna be so excited to see him for breakfast! :) Goodnight.

Day 305

What a hot day... I must sound like a broken record, but it's just as hot as it can be. We three gals were all in terrible moods as a result, today, thank goodness Papa was at work. He would've headed for the hills!! :/ We were up at 6am, and naps were had early-- thank goodness. Both girls went down within half an hour of each other, so Mama actually got a break. I continued work on some cute things for the girls rooms-- embroidery, kind of. After lunch, we did Costco, playtime, dinner and baths. We all roasted the whole time, except for P, she got to swim in her pool for a little bit. :) 

I got to nap for a bit with Luciana in the morning. P was still asleep & I heard Lu cry. I go upstairs to get her up, but I can tell she's still tired, so I lie down with her, and snuggled as close as I could. She is a champion snuggler, a real pro, and we enjoyed abother half hour of sleep. Heaven!! Smelling her sweet baby smell, her chubby little hands squeezing my arms, I was just in la-la love land with my baby girl. :) I know one day she would cringe to have me wrapped around her like that, so I'm enjoying it now! 

Here's what I finished in the last few days. Haven't decided who will get what yet.

And here are the girls at Costco. It was Lulu's very first time in the shopping cart! She love love loved it! The only problems were when they wanted to sort of poke, prod & grab at each other and their things. Lu kept trying to snatch P's food samples-- and P wasn't having that! Or Lu was mad when P wanted to have her arm around her neck... In a nice way, but Lu didn't like it. They did enjoy it, too, wasn't all bad. :)

That's it... It's 11:09pm and I just heard you cry, Lulu. Here we go! :) 

Night.

Day 304

Fun day for the Rindge fam-- we went for a morning walk, complete with donuts, at the Dana Point Harbor. P whined almost the whole time, and to her credit, it was soooo hot. After naps, we got dressed and packed up and went to Baby Beach, an awesome beach right near where we were walking, a super kid & baby friendly beach, obviously. :) Penelope and Papa went swimming:

She is a little fish, definitely her Daddy's girl. Luciana wanted to swim, she was so excited when I let her wade, but I don't have swim diapers for her. That's going to change! She and I hung out on the blanket like always. :) My little sidekick. 

We enjoyed today from start to finish, and now the girls are asleep, surely exhausted from all the swimming, running, playing, horsey riding (Dada's back), laughing and hugging. 

Here I am feeding both girls their breakfast at once. Someone is always mad that it isn't their turn for a bite. ;)

Goodnight. 

Day 303

This is how life passes... Day by day... We've already had our sweet baby Lulu home for 303 days?! She'll be one year old. One year. It's been so much fun watching this little tiny baby become a person-- we see her sweet personality now, she is so so sweet. She loves: her big sister (she adores P-- all P has to do is hug Lulu & she is beaming), her Johnny Jumper, napping with Mama (snuggled up, she actually lets me hug and kiss her!), banana baby food, bathtime (she could be in the worst mood & bathtime makes her laugh), and she is a big time Mama's girl. She doesn't like: lying on her belly, veggies of any kind (a child not liking vegetables? Unheard of!), wearing a bib, and not being able to crawl yet is starting to really annoy her. This is why I think she'll be crawling soon-- she is dying to follow P around and get to the good toys. We keep helping her until she gets it, but we don't rush her. She'll get there when she's good and ready. :)

Today we: unpacked the jam packed van from camping, cleaned the house, the girls and Daddy hung out in the back yard in the pool while Mama went to the nail salon, and then dinner & baths. We have Papa home tomorrow, so we are going to try and enjoy our day all together. 

That is all. Night. 

Day 302

Camping trip is over!! We woke up, are breakfast, then took a walk to the playground....

After playground, we went to the beach. Penelope went in the water with Daddy (waaaay out paddling on his surfboard, Mama had a panic attack) and Lu & I played on a blanket:

P and Papa also played in the sand, and Lulu loves watching her big sis play....

I walked Lulu up and down the beach in the Ergo so she could nap. I walked for an hour, so she could sleep about 20 minutes... Man! :/ We called it a day after that, said bye bye to our friends Cori, Jimmy & Mia and hit the road. Took us four hours to get home. We are all exhausted, and so happy to be home!!

That's all. Yaaaaaaaawn, goodnight.

Day 301

Yesterday we came camping. We tried again!! Left home around noon, arrived here around 3, and set up right away. Penelope & Daddy went for a swim straight after, had a good time-- P went in all the way in her floatie & LOVED it! We are turkey burgers for dinner, and then went on a nice long walk after, catching the sunset on the beach.... Gorgeous. We walked pretty far, and by 7, both girls were asleep. We stopped by our campsite, grabbed the s'mores stuff & headed over to our friends' site to eat & enjoy their fire. About 10 minutes in (and I'm being generous there) both girls were wailing, and seemingly ready for bed. We hightailed it outta there, and headed "home". So.... Sleeping. Yeah. :/ The girls were NOT having it, and they both wiggled, squirmed, cried, whined, talked, crawled, and everything else for at least an hour before they fell asleep. Both girls seemed to do all that until they were exhausted and just couldn't anymore. It was a long night. Both Thomas and I thought to ourselves "we are leaving tomorrow", and vocalized this at 5am when the girls woke up! :) Camping is a lot, and it seems just too much for us at this time. But we tried! Again. We are at the beach now, and ate enjoying ourselves, but we'll go home this evening. 

Sigh... Camping with babies is hard.