Summer Starts Here

While our girls haven't actually been in school, I feel like we have been on the go nonstop with travel & Harper's activities. And even though it was just soccer twice a week & dance twice a week, I am so freaking relieved they are over! Waking the other two up from naps half the time to bring them along, all the while everyone is complaining that they don't want to go (mostly Harper, to soccer, she was so over it) or Eloise begging to go in the dance studio with Harper & throwing a huge fit when she couldn't. She did get to go to "bring a friend" day which was hilarious & horrifying at the same time, she basically ran around the room doing her own cotton-eyed-joe gallop while the rest of the girls actually did ballet. Needless to say, we are ready for a laid back summer schedule & no activities for a little while! ;)

My sweetest big girl at her dance recital, we are so proud of her!!!

We are soaking up every last drop of this gorgeous weather because before we know it, the dreaded heat will have us stuck inside for more hours than we are prepared for. I think we all know what being cooped inside with toddlers looks like.

Harper in time out: "one. two. three. four. five. six. seven. eight. nine. ten. oh my goodness that was the longest forty years ever, I am soooooooooo sorrrrrrrrrrry!"
Eloise in time out: "one. two. free. fourteen. eighteen. ten! ready or not, here I come!!!"

Harper really is the sweetest big sister, but the one thing that she has no patience for is when one of them wrecks her little people creations. She stacks up all her little princesses in the castle exactly how she wants them, and sure enough, Claire will steam roll right through it it and knock it all over. So after I caught Harper screaming at her & trying to push her over so she couldn't reach them, I made her go to time out & threatened to take the castle away if she couldn't share.  Harper threw a massive tantrum telling me how Claire wrecks her stuff & she doesn't want to play with her, so I told her to stay in time out until she apologized. Shortly after, I laid Claire down for her nap & came downstairs to find Harper drawing at the table. She casually slid her paper over to me, and on it was a drawing of me with my mouth in the shape of a sharp ziz-zag pattern. And she quietly said "mom, this is you. being mean making me go to time out, and just ruining my whole day. and I'm giving it to daddy."

God help me when these girls are teenagers.

We plan to spend countless days at the pool, let the sprinkler run for hours on end & go to bed each night with rosy cheeks and sticky popsicle faces. The unofficial start to summer is finally here. Wishing you all the happiest weekend!!! XO