Grace & Jack

Grace and Jack spent the weekend with us. We had a lot of fun -- hope they did too.


Making Pizza

Just some cute shots of Anna.

Creative or Redneck?

So, after Tom and Jen's, Catherine has been talking non-stop about swimming. I filled up her pool, but it was a bit chilly this morning. Being either creative or redneck, I got out my old horse water bucket heater. It worked! Pictures are below, please vote and let me know.

Aunt Jen & Uncle Tom's

Catherine made Adam put this on. -- He is a good sport.

They took turns pretending they were Lucy (Elizabeth's dog.) But, isn't that a nice picture of Elizabeth?

Elizabeth and Catherine relaxing.


Ten minutes after we left they were both asleep.

Short update

Here are a couple of my favorite pictures from the weekend.

Aunt Ann and her fans.
Just a nice shot of Uncle Mike.

Vacation

I don't want to bore everyone with our vacation shots, so I'll try to pare them down to just a few (we took over 250, so consider yourselves lucky.) Overall, we had great weather, great company and probably too much food that we felt we needed to consume. Thanks to Mom and Dad for all their help watching the girls and allowing Jim and me to exercise together. As we pulled into our neighborhood, Catherine said: "Not this house!" Yes, why does the vacation week go so much faster than the others. -- Next stop? This fall to Florida to let Grandma and Grandpa Woloskie watch our kids. :-)


Grandma and Grandpa arrive. I think she has Jim's sprinting capabilities.













Anna tried peas when we got home.

Smiles

New favorite picture.

Happy 4th of July

Hope everyone had a great long weekend. Here are some pictures...

Mirror, mirror.

Aunt Kathy and Gary heading out on the jet ski.

Catherine went for her first motor boat ride and watched Danielle and Amy tube.

She and Ethan going for a ride.

Then it was time to relax.

Emery's Baptism

We went to Emery's Baptism on Sunday. It was very nice and we sat in the Friar's Chapel. As always, Uncle Dan did a wonderful job.

Nice picture of all of them.

Uncle Dan's "helpers"

We checked out the new votive chapel too. Here's the brick that all of us got Mom & Dad for Christmas.

Thanks again to "Camp Hull" for all the fun last week. I think we're still catching up on our sleep! :-)

4 Months Old

I took Anna to her 4-month appointment yesterday. She's 24 inches long and 12.7 pounds. That puts her in the 50-75th percentile for length and the 5th percentile for weight. For comparison, Catherine weighed over three and a half pounds more at her four month appointment; funny how they can all be so different.

I had to go to DC to work for a bit. Jim's mom flew in to help watch the girls. She now has Catherine talking about going to Florida so we can visit. Very funny.


Grandma "La-ski" (as Catherine says it.)

Kiss.

Nice picture of Anna and Aunt MaryAnn.

That's how I roll...

In my ever hip lingo, that is my new term. I used it with mom and dad at Mike's birthday and I think they are now hip to it too (more pictures to follow). -- Jim is out of town the next couple days, so I thought it would be fun for me and the girls to go to dinner. Catherine insisted on wearing the hat...

Working

Yikes, she needs to clean her desk. She's on the phone too! Is that really how I look?

Memorial Day Weekend

Hope everyone had a good weekend. We decided to brick paver the area just off the deck -- 350 square feet! It was a long process (with a couple suprises that made it even longer) but we're happy with it.
Before

After -- we still have to get a couple cut for the edges.

Everyone has to help with an effort like this.

Zoo!

We went to the zoo on Saturday. It was Catherine's first time at a real zoo (well, Anna's too.) :-) It was a lot of fun and they both did great. Big hits were "monkeys... monkeys eating... monkey breaking the tree" and "oooo, big bear!"

I would love to take them to the National Zoo, so maybe I'll need to combine that with a work trip later this summer. :-) -- Speaking of which, I hope Rosie had a wonderful First Communion and cannot wait to see pictures.

Last funny story of the week, Catherine has been climbing everything lately, and as a result, has been falling off everything lately. She fell hard on her butt on Friday and wanted me to kiss it to make it better. Somehow I didn't think I would get that request until her teenage years. (Also, glad to see that Terrie is having the same problem with Josh falling, and it's not just our "laissez-faire" parenting style. -- Now there are two words you cannot use everyday on your blog!) :-) -- Also, Terrie, we weren't ready to move Catherine to the big girl bed, but the thought of buying another crib didn't seem like a good one either.

Catherine with the polar bears behind her.

Us with a Gorilla climbing in the tree behind us.

Anna smiling at Catherine. We had a nice time.

Romantic Mother's Day

So, right before we were about to eat, our power went out. Thankfully, Jim was making most of the dishes on the grill and Dad had already blended our drinks. :-) But, as a result, we had a candlelit Mother's Day celebration. I hope Father's Day doesn't make us as challenged!

Big Girl Bed

Well, we made the transition. So far, so good. Catherine looks little in her bed, and Anna looks so small in the crib.




One of our IKEA purchases. I'm glad Shana talked me into this one.

IKEA

We (me, Catherine and Anna) met Kim and her sisters-in-law (and kids) at IKEA last weekend. Isn't that a cute picture of Grace and Catherine? This weekend we're going there again to meet my sister Catherine and Shana. This will be good, because I was too overwhelmed the first time to take it all in. I felt like the country mouse in the big city. The place is really something.

Anna is sleeping through the night! Knock-on-wood from 10:30pm until 7am she sleeps. The first couple days I thought the monitor was broken, but it is really true!

Excited to see my peeps in DC next week. -- Not all that excited about work, but seeing everyone will be fun.

Party

Catherine had a party to show off her new place -- I don't know what Tom and Jen are doing next spring break, but our house could use their help! :)

Nice picture of Dad and Anna.

Well, Heidi made the party, but where's Dan...

There he is!