groundhog day in september

now that the trips are all blogged and the kid updates are done i can get back to my regularly scheduled blogging.

 

but it kinda feels like i've done all this before...

it's all good, i will take a good regular day over a bad day any day.

 

so our lives lately...

(based pretty much solely on the pics i had in my phone)

 

we've been spending a lot of time at the baseball field.

christian has games wednesday and friday nights, so about 4 hours of each of those days are spent there. and it's getting chilly at night, love, love, love this time of year! i know i say this every season, but autumn might just be my favorite... at least until the next one comes around. ;)

addie is settling into school.

i don't think she'd say she loves it, but she doesn't cry when i drop her off anymore and she always tells me she had a good day. she does still pout a little when i drop her off and she sometimes tells me her teacher yells, but at 4 years old there is kind of a grey, blurry line between truth and make believe, so take that as you will.

frankie's been doing homework too.

gotta stay up with big sissy, you know.

i saw this pic on fb and thought it was the cutest.

you know what a sucker i am for anything personalized.

i hope someday i can be this cool.

laney's still been burning the midnight oil. her regular bedtime is anywhere from 10:30-12:30 and i like to get up with the big kids and matt at 5:30 to make either smoothies (even though i've been told that i really need to find a good recipe soon) or breakfast burritos (even though one person refuses to eat them, although i won't tell who she is;). long story short, i (just like everyone else, i know) have been sleepy tired. so matt and the little girls let me sleep in till 9:30 and brought me breakfast in bed on saturday. then they spent 5 minutes telling me how i was the best mommy ever.

 it was super sweet. :)

frankie finally figured out how to lay down in the water to rinse her hair and she loves it.

hallelujah!

not that this has ended the bathtime crying, but it has severely lessened.

matt and christian went to the solomons boat races on saturday.

the actual race was sunday, but they were able to see the pit and some warm-ups and they both enjoyed it.

(chris also taking a pic of the boat in the bottom left)

we went to abby's fun birthday party and it was like a baby girl fest.

super cute.

the girls have loved playing together lately and they've grown up so much that they play so nicely.

i woke up on sunday with a full blown cold and matt, who also had a full blown cold (as well as laney and frankie) called it a day to stay home and rest (and keep our germs to ourselves), so we missed church. it was a nice family day of naps and family movies. noses are still running, but i think we're on the up and up.

 

things have been pretty busy since i got back home (from texas). matt's 3rd class is wrapping up next week, and between homework projects, scout events, and navy weekends/tests he's been swamped. which means not a lot of help with littles. but everybody's healthy and happy and it's all good.

busy, but good.

 

and that's it... i think.

same ol', same ol'.

all good.