Labor Day is approaching quickly and this is only blog since Memorial Day. I’m SO SORRY!!
I’m not making excuses or anything, BUT, who has time to sit at the computer while chasing after two toddlers?? So, you might be wondering, what have we been up too?
Born to be outside
Rain or shine, hot or cold, anyone who knows my kids, knows they were born to be outside. Hence, that’s where we’ve been all summer. Most of the summer it didn’t rain hardly a drop and was very HOT, so playing in the water quickly became Josh and Audrey’s favorite past-time. Whether it was playing in their swimming pool with the neighbor kids, blasting their fire-hydrant style hose down the drive-way, or just cleaning our landscaping rocks, they have spent endless hours splashing around. In addition, our stash of outdoor toys has tripled since last summer pretty much taking over our garage. Josh and Audrey’s favorite toys, are their bikes. Josh is officially riding a two-wheeler and Audrey keeps right up with him on her singing and dancing Dora machine. Coming in close second for Josh is his John Deere Tractor. Grandpa would be happy to know that “it gets good gas mileage.” Oh, and I can’t forget the mowers of course. And, Audrey’s baby’s – she’s always got a baby in her arms.
SLIVERS.. Yes, over the summer, both Josh and Audrey have had their bouts of slivers. I guess, one can expect that with their love to run barefoot outside. We’ve learned our lesson now, I think, and we’ve implemented stricter shoe wearing polices. Thank goodness, we have an amazing next door neighbor, Ruthie, who is the master at removing those darn things and she’s a total sweetheart.
Other than that, Josh is always ‘working on’ or fixing something, whether it be in the garage or in the house. It’s so much fun to watch his imagination run wild as he plays. Audrey is doing her best to keep up to her brother at all times. Other than keeping up with her big brother, Audrey is always on the move to a ‘higher spot’. She’s definitely a CLIMBER and a quick little bugger. Her favorite thing lately is to secretly run to the bathroom, while I’m busy in the kitchen, and climb up on the vanity and sit in the sink and play. If I take my eye off her for one second, she’s off and climbing which is very scary!! I’m just dreading the day she decides to climb out of her crib, but I’m surprised she hasn’t already mastered that. Other than that, the other major highlight this summer has been the front loader washer and dryer that we recently purchased. Both kids LOVE helping me do laundry and watching how fast it spins. Thank goodness, because we have went through a TON OF LAUNDRY. It is TRULY amazing and worth every penny.
It’s raining...It’s POURING!!
Finally, in the last couple of weeks, the rain began to fall - fast and furious I might add. Last Sat. night, approximately 10 inches of rain fell over night. The torrential rain left Southeastern MN with major flooding and devastation. Check out the comparison of the Local Live map image of the Rochester Tennis Center with what it looked like the morning after the rain (this was the only real bad flooding we noticed in Rochester). Fortunately, we didn’t have water damage living on a high location and all, but many of our neighbors and friends did which was so sad. Josh was obsessed with all of the crazy weather and continues to alert us if he sees a storm/flood watch or warning on T.V. The kid LOVES talking about the weather. Of course, all of this rain wasn’t going to alter Josh and Audrey’s outside routines, so we immediately purchased new rain boots and they have NOT taken them off since. They wear them everywhere!! Josh’s are BRIGHT yellow and Audrey’s are pink, of course.