Brooke
I can not believe how big she is getting.
- She is always telling us she loves us (and I love it)
- She is learning to ride her bike, she is getting better and better every day
- She loves to help me bake or cook.
- She is such a good big sister to Karina and always looking out for her.
- She got moved into a big girl booster seat
- I have to figure out how to get her to eat more... It seems like she never eats anything anymore.
- The potty training isn't going so well anymore, she kind of gave up on it (except when we are in Target) whenever we are in a public place it seems like she always has to go potty.
Karina
- She has learned to climb the stairs
- She has two teeth and has about three more coming in
- She LOVES to bug her big sister
- She is now in a forward facing seat and she loves it
- She is such a happy baby, the only time she cries is when she is tired.
- She is sleeping through the night and
- she eats, and eats and eats (At least one of our girls do)
I'm sure as you all know there has been bad weather down here. We have been lucky so far and have not gotten really bad weather here. There was strong winds that knocked out power on the east side of town and there have been a few trees down around here but... I can't complain. Hopefully I am not jinxing myself.
Bugs
Yes, we have Cicadas really bad here and they are soooo gross. They don't really do anything but fly around and mate. They will ruin fruit trees but we don't have any to worry about here. They only appear every thirteen years and of course the first summer here they come out. I will have to get a picture of them... they are gross, big with red beady eyes. There mating calls are really loud and obnoxious.
Fish
Brooke has been bugging to go fishing. We went exploring yesterday and we found a really cool fishing lake that they stock. Its up in the foothills. It is a 60acre lake and you can rent row boats so I am hoping we can do that soon. I think the girls would love it. The lake is surrounded by rock and trees. Its absolutely beautiful, I will post pictures of that later too. We got a few pictures of the girls. We are still trying to find a good lake to swim in... we got spoiled with the great lakes.
The weekend after Memorial day we will be heading to Indianapolis for the weekend. We will be meeting Stephanie and hopefully Grandma and Grandpa as well. We haven't seen Stephanie in a while so it will be fun to see her. We are excited. Brooke can't wait to go swimming with Steph. :)
We are currently sitting behind the couch waiting for these storms to pass. Karina had gone to bed around eight and I had to wake her up to bring her down here. She is now wide awake and it doesn't look like she is going to fall asleep any time soon. Brooke is now wide awake, I was hoping they would lay down and fall asleep and then when this storm passes I could just bring them up to bed. But they are sitting here making each other giggle. This could end up being a very long night. We don't have a basement so we are sitting behind our couch against our kitchen wall. Needless to say its a very small, tight, cramped space and its HOT! Its still around eighty degrees outside and we are trying not to use our air yet. We did end up using it last night because at two in the morning it was still 80 degrees outside and Brooke wasn't sleeping well. Yes, I was up at two a.m. Its about 11:45 and we are still sitting here, I am hoping its not much longer... I can still hear the wind though... The news just said its 65mph winds... it has slowed down a lot. :) They are reporting trees and power lines down down all over but hopefully there isn't any from here to Trevor's work, I would really like him to be able to make it home tonight. We have been lucky there are 10,000 people with out power but we still have it, the power has flickered a few times but it is still on and hopefully it will stay on.
Sorry for all the rambling, I ramble when I'm nervous, and I don't like storms as it is and I really don't like them when its just the girls and I home.
