weekends.

this is a post of pics from our past 2 weekends!  i have just been so busy with my 2 girls lately (and tired) that i haven't had time to do much blogging.  

labor day weekend:

we went downtown to the battery for a picnic.  sk was looking for the perfect spot=)

this one doesn't care where we picnic....snoozie!  can i please note that this past week i got hayes weaned off these huge, no-hook green hospital pacifiers!  she still takes a paci but i was able to successfully switch her to the nuk brand.

 this pic is not from our picnic but see - nuk paci!  go me!  and look, i get to use the cute and convenient little "h" paci clip.  it's the little things i guess=)

after lunch sk ran and ran.  she played tag with her daddy, too.

bless her heart.  she runs like her mama - we're all knock-kneed and have long, lanky legs that kick out.  trey and i always joke about her being our little track star since she's so physically cautious and awkward. if you've ever seen the episode of friends where rachel no longer wants to run with phoebe - well, sk and i are phoebe.  although, if she uses all that strong-will she has been showing us lately, she can do anything she puts her mind to!  i was a fierce little tennis player once upon a time so those legs are capable=)

 

 someone decided to join us=)

 

"can we go out on the boat??!"  oh sk, next summer you will have a "normal" summer, i promise!

the weekend after labor day we took sk down to our family beach house for a late summer trip.  she was so excited when we pulled into that familiar place late thursday night - hayes was pretty pumped herself!  we had a great time - very relaxing.  my parents and the twins came over friday night for dinner and frozen yogurt.  it was nice of my parents to celebrate their 43rd wedding anniversary with all the little girls, trey and myself at sliders!  not romantic, but the kids had a blast (and the adults enjoyed the live country music!)   hayes went to the beach for the first time on friday - it was the day she turned 10 weeks.  she just hung out in her bouncy seat and took a beach-nap.  anyway, it was nice to get down there - sk had been asking to go so i'm glad we were able to make it happen before our fall gets sooo busy.

just getting to the house and unpacking/getting ready for bed. 

it's funny how when you have a second baby your first "baby" becomes a giant.

first day on the beach - 10weeks

 and to compare: this is a pic of sk's first day on the beach (the day she turned 8 weeks) wearing the same little sun bubble...

sk's first day on the beach - 8 weeks

they are kinda like twins. 

trey and sk dug a hole to china.  sk gave trey lots of "bubbly bubbly baths!"

sk and her dumbo - the best of friends!

on saturday, i had just put hayes down for a nap when it was almost beach time so trey & sk went to the beach to play.  later that afternoon while sk "napped" and hayes really was napping, i went down to the beach all.by.myself.  did you hear that?  i just sat there in the sunshine.  it was great=) 

my best "sister shot."  awesome.

the girls at dinner: brycie is climbing.  sk and ava are digging in the sand.

it's hard to get everyone in an iphone pic, but here we are at island time yogurt.  if you read our beach trip post then you know our family is a bit obsessed with this place.  i'm proud (or sad..whatever way you want to look at it) to say that we were at the beach for 3 nights and only went once. 

mimi, papa and all 4 grandgirls (hayes snoozed in her carrier all through dinner and dessert!) and that's trey's leg by sk. ha!

and then last sunday we came back home.  and reality hit.  hard!  sk went back to school 3 days and also started throwing awful tantrums (not at school thankfully!  she saves all that for us at home which is how i want it if it has to happen!).  i think she is exhausted.  and she's 3.  it has been very hard for me and so tiring.  bedtime avoidance has finally become an issue - at nighttime and quiet time.  so anyway, i'm slacking on my blogs because i'm emotionally drained by the end of each day!!  on a happier note, hayes is beginning to come into her own!  she still has a little ways to go, but she has certainly turned a corner and is having alot of happy times - lots of smiles and nice wake-time.  most of last week was rough for her because i was on an anitbiotic for a sinus infection and it made her tummy hurt, but i'm all finished and she seems to appreciate it.  11 weeks - we're not too far from 3 months!!!  2 weeks to go!