Falling Behind

Things have picked up around here and we’ve found ourselves to be very busy these days! Here are some pictures I want to post before I get too far behind...

I’ll start of with just a couple more pictures from the end of Nana & Aunt Laur’s visit

A fall weekend

Saturday was filled with typical fall activities, pumpkins & football!!  Nana, Aunt Laur, & I took the girls to the pumpkin patch then then Dean and the boys had a fish fry/football watch at the house later that night.  The McGraths were over for the fish fry and I took some pics of “baby Gavin”-- that boy just keeps on getting more adorable every time I see him!!

Quinn's third birthday

Quinn turned THREE last week!! She is SUCH a big girl now.  She is independent as ever and so very smart.  He favorite things to do right now are reading, drawing, and playing outside.  She is now 40” tall (95%!) and 31.4lbs, which is average for her age.

She somehow bypassed her parents’ lack of artistic talent and luckily, seems to have gotten some from her Nanna/Poppop.  During our last beach trip her Papa gave her a drawing lesson and she has not stopped since.  Her teacher has since hung up 2 of her drawings-- one “elephant” out in the hallway and one “spider” in the science center at school (I was so proud!!). Miss Amy was most impressed at how serious Quinn is with her arts and crafts and couldn’t get over the fact that she put 8 legs on the spider.  

Quinn is still super-sweet and she is really doing great with her sister.  (Kathryn has developed quite a Mommy syndrome lately-- even gets to the point where she physically tries to remove Quinn from my arms if I am hugging or holding her). Now, that is not to say that Quinn doesn’t throw tantrums here & there (and when she does-- wow, you’d be shocked at what a fit she can throw!) but I think that is par for the course with a 3-year old, right?  And you might have noticed a new haircut-- we had to go short since she hasn’t quite kicked her hair twisting habit, so we just keep evening it out. 

Quinn is still a ver busy girl but we try to fit in some down-time too.  She goes to school Tuesdays & Thursdays.  Tuesdays she stays an hour late at school to have lunch with her friends and on Thursday evenings she has dance class for an hour.  Most days she will take a 2-hr nap in the afternoon and when she doesn’t nap, she is usually content playing with her buddies & reading (sometimes singing) in her bed.  

Nanna, Aunt Laur, and Grampa we sweet enough to join us for Quinn’s birthday weekend and as you will see from the pictures, she was thrilled!

Beach Babies

We just got back from our last beach trip of the summer & had such a fun, relaxing week, I am really finding it hard to get back to reality.  

With babies, vacations are not always as easy as they use to be.  Babies don’t really go on “vacation time”, so it is hard to find a balance & sometimes to fit “fun” in with nap times, etc... But lately, each vacation seems to be getting easier & I think I was able to relax more on this vacation than I have in years!  

Kathryn seemed to have a rough time at nights-- the girl is teething nonstop & I don’t think she was too fond of her bed. So, she was up a lot, but luckily it didn’t seem to affect Quinn (they shared a room) & Kathryn was able to make up for her rough nights with a morning nap.  

September (so far)

We have had quite a busy September, with lots more action to come!!  Here is what we have been up to (but just a quick recap though, because we are headed to THE BEACH in just a few short days and I haven’t started packing yet!! I’ll also apologize for the pictures, I haven’t been using the camera too much lately...