wordless wednesday {best buds - izzy and tanner}

wordless wednesday {like father, like daughter}

silver strand state beach

This past weekend I was supposed to take the girls to Coronado to stay in a hotel for two nights while Kate's family and my parents stayed in an RV on the beach.  (Eric was busy working a 48 hour shift.)  Plans changed earlier in the week when a call from the doctor informed us that poor little Izzy had a MRSA infection on her upper leg and on her lip - gasp!  Our house turned into Disinfection Central and I spent hours and hours doing millions of loads of bleached laundry.  Izzy seems to be doing better - her two little sores are healing nicely and she is on oral and topical antibiotics, so we decided to brave the outdoors today and crash my parents' and Kate's camping weekend.

They were in a great spot right on the water and the girls had an absolute BLAST playing with their cousins at the beach.  I only live 2 miles from the beach and I NEVER take them to the beach (I hate dealing with the sand when we get home), so it was a good reminder for me that I need to take advantage of my awesome surroundings!

Tori supervising 5 kids in the water...no problem!  :)

I love love love when these three little girls get to spend time together...and they love it too!

My parents on the beach with Zadie and Isabelle.

My favorite picture - my walking along surrounding by little ones!

wordless wednesday {my bathing beauties}

a funny timeout

The girls had a very busy weekend.  On Friday night they stayed at their Auntie Becky's house with us and played with their cousins Kennedy, Riley and Tanner.  Then on Saturday night they had the great pleasure of spending the night at their Auntie Kate's house for Zadie's birthday party (thanks Kate and Tori)!!!!  Lots of fun cousin time this weekend and they are flat-out exhausted.  Sophie was very crabby because she was so tired.  After her bath, I was getting into my pajamas and she hit Isabelle twice in the back pretty hard.  Then she said, "I like to hit people."  I told her she needed to go to timeout for hitting and for making that comment.  I was still in my underwear beause I hadn't finished getting my pajama pants on, so I walked her to her room half-dressed.  I put her on her bed and as I was closing her bedroom door, she said, "I like your panties, Mom!!!"  HA!  Normally, I am very annoyed when I am putting the kids in timeout because they have done something wrong, but that made me laugh out loud.

Another funny thing that happened tonight is that Isabelle was playing around with her pillow and making a pretend bed, etc.  I saw her struggling with her pillow for a while, and finally she hopped over to the couch with her legs inside the pillowcase.  She said, "Remember at the Easter egg hunt last year, kids were hopping around in pillowcases like this?  That's what I'm trying to do."  I had to laugh because she had failed to remove the pillow from the pillowcase.  No wonder she was having such a hard time!  :)

These two are pretty cute!

wordless wednesday {kids sure wear you out!}

differing sleep needs

I took this pictures on a 5 hour road trip home from Parker, Arizona where we visited my friend Jeanne's family.  Since Sophie was born, she is easily lulled to sleep by the movement of a swing or a ride in the car.  She will freely admit that she is tired and that she wants to take a nap.  I tell her to go ahead and rest her head, and she'll lean her head against the car seat and quickly fall asleep.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the car, there's Isabelle - rambunctious, full of energy and not tired in the least.  Here she is happily playing with my iPod while sissy sleeps.  She's pretty good about staying quiet while her sister catches some shut-eye, and she sometimes falls asleep in the car too, but long after Sophie has dozed off and she tries to avoid sleep if at all possible.  She doesn't want to miss anything!  :)