Life Lately

We try to spend as much time as we can with our families which is pretty easy to do since they all live relatively close by. The grandparental's are always requesting sleepovers with the wild child so she gets spoiled by one set or the other practically every weekend. Now that it is summer time we are spending even more time with family especially my mom since she is a crazy get up and goer like us. We have also tried to squeeze in as many play dates and grill outs with friends to squeeze every bit of fun out of this summer.

We met up with some girlfriends and their little for a Day of Merry Making at a local park and even though it was blazing hot we still had a blast.

Good food, cold drinks, and ice cream for the kids = parental relaxation time

What we do any day we don't have anything else to do. This girl has definitely gained confidence in the water this summer. We decided not to take swimming lessons and I feel like that was the best decided for us. We really didn't care for the forceful way they made her do things she didn't want to do and it made her more afraid of the water. Maybe she was too little or maybe they were really mean, but for us swim lessons did more harm then good. This kid is now a fish and has developed an obsession with the water and she will swim without her puddle jumper when she is stronger and ready.

We recently bought a bike trailer off of a local resale sight and plan on doing some family bike riding on our local green line. It has been a little too hot lately and we have had plans already set every weekend so we are hoping to hit the road soon. We have been practicing in our neighborhood just to get the feel of things and someone has definitely been enjoying the ride.

Mckinley has also been practicing riding her bike with Papa and Yaya and she has gotten pretty good at it. She also got a new to her red flyer for our house and has been flying around the house past few weeks and terrorizing the dogs.

Water balloons with Car Car and Nonni

We have made quite a few blanket forts which are perfect for eating picnic lunches and watching movies with popcorn.

Zoo day with the boys

God bless the bounce house!

I am still not sure if she enjoyed The Pink Palace or was terrified by it.

 

I am going to go with terrified

 Splash pads and snacks

We are still soaking up every minute of this summer break and have so many more fun things planned!

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Just a few random moments from the last few weeks. 

She still lets me rock her and sing after a bath. 

 

 

 

Her new trick. I call it the sorority girl.

The dress obsession continues

Not sure what that is or where it goes but. I am pretty sure it didn't go where we left it 

This is what she looks like almost every day after school and I am sure it won't be any different once we start summer camp tomorrow.

Bored playing with the vacuum tube

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11 more days people! 11 more days!! Not that I am counting or anything! About right about now I am thankful that I have killed myself to get all of my lesson plans done for the rest of the year, assessments are done, and I am starting to prep a few things for next year. All of this work means I have gotten to enjoy myself and relax a little bit this past week. We have been so thankful for the beautiful weather we have had recently and we have taken full advantage of it which means every night is a bath night these days. 

As we get closer to the end of the year it is getting harder and harder to wake up every morning and my morning girl has turned into this ray of sunshine. 

She is obsessed with dresses and only wants to wear the one uniform dress we have. Between that discussion and begging me for milk and candy our mornings are quite interesting. 

Our first fair of the season. 

Definitely a bath night. 

Mckinley's class have been working on putting together a lemonade stand all year and all of their hard work payed off! I am so proud of all of these cuties for raising so much money. 

Dance dress rehearsal yesterday and and dance recital this weekend! I never thought I would be a dance mom, but here I am. I definitely needed a glass of wine after this craziness!

Just a girl and her electric toothbrush. She is a tad bit obsessed. 

Trying to talk her way into staying up just a few more minutes.

And one of me and this lady. I don't typically post too many pictures of myself  so I had to share. Not sure if I would have made it through the last few years without this hot mess!! 4k is definitely a fun place to be!!

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With the end of the school year coming up fast and the wild child's social obligations I thought I would share what our life looks like as seen through my phone.Honestly it is just a bunch of pictures of my kid being a weirdo, but that is my life so that is what you get.

Dress up is one of our favorite past times

Mckinley got her first non mommy hair cut. I may or may not have messed it up right before Easter so we went to the professionals to straighten everything out.

I spy a little girl sitting in time out.

Mckinley won $15 at out school Easter egg hunt so she got to spend it on whatever she wanted. She choose a Frozen light up singing microphone and a bucket of ocean creatures.

Mckinle's first Star of The Week poster.

Tiny Taco at our school's lip sync competition. Her group won for most creative costumes.

Working out with mommy.

Papa and Yaya took her to a fair. They brought me back a member of KISS!

Nonni couldn't wait for her actual birthday to give her her Elsa costume. Everyday when we get home she takes off her uniform and requests to put this on.

Another day in her Elsa costume. Eating black beans in a box.

Mckinley's first Race For Education.

The first of many princess birthday parties.

And our other favorite past time besides dressing up like a princess is pretending like she is a cat.