August Events

Spider man is proud of his puzzles

 Children's Museum for an ASU welcome party - kids had the museum to themselves!!

 LOVE summer time and Family swimming!!

Shopping with Elsa and Superman!

 Enjoying the puddles after a rain storm

 Rylie Girl did AWESOME with her big girl bed!!

 Frozen night at church - snow, snow cones and Frozen on the big screens in the worship center

 Date with the D-Man!

 Children's Museum with friends

 Best egg peelers around

 Braids!

 Rain storms are SO fun!

 Bowling fun!

 Friday night swim - naked!

 Pool Time!!!

 T-shirts from Daddy's meting at Google -  "Derek Droid"

 Fun times singing "I wanna hold your hand...." with Miss Sharon

 Shopping with superheros- Clark Kent and Bat

July Events

Taking sister for a ride

 Turkey dinner with Jared, Megan and Lily

 Friday night at the Children's Museum as a family

 Super Rylie Girl with her babies

 ice cream dessert and sprinkler fun with Isaac

 Rylie reading to her baby and Star Wars Lego fighter plane Derek built

tea time in the pool

Derek swimming

 

Bike Town play date at Paradise Church

mall play date with Bella and Caden

stocking up at Trader Joe's with GF pasta, mac and cheese and spaghetti sauce!

Ice cream with the family...good to the last drop.

 Funny faces with Rylie Girl, while Derek sleeps

 We LOVE gymnastics class!

Rylie asked me to paint her toe nails for the first time (2 years 4 months). 

Unfortunately, I didn't have purple.

 Smiles with my Rylie Girl

Rylie's Big Girl Bed

Rylie is now sleeping in a big girl bed. We had been waiting until we were done traveling for the summer to make the big change. Rylie has never tried to climb out of her crib, but we were bringing more and more toys into her crib for her to play with before she would fall asleep during nap time that there was barely any room in her crib for her. I could tell that Rylie was ready to have more responsibility and independence with playing and then deciding when she was tired to climb into bed for nap time. At first she wasn't so sure about the new bed and lock on her door, but after climbing in and out of her bed and having the WHOLE room to play in during her nap time, she was super excited. Rylie LOVES her purple comforter. She informed me that she only wants to sleep under the comforter and not her sheets because her sheets are turquoise polka dots and not purple polka dots....silly girl. Her first nap time and night in her bed were a success!! After a while of making sure she doesn't roll off her bed we will add the frame (the same head board and foot board that I had when I was little girl). We are so proud of Rylie girl making this transition. After 4 years, its a weird feeling to have no more cribs in our house!

 First nap in big girl bed....SUCCESS...2.5 hours

 

First night in big girl bed....SUCCESS....several times she rotated sideways and I wondered if she was going to fall off the bed, but then she turned herself back to have her head on her pillow

 

Derek also got a new bed...Its a trundle bed (ready for sleepovers) with a fort underneath!!!

Mr. Mooooo