Reunion :)

My good friend from high school, Melanee, came to Salt Lake this week. The girls and I were excited to meet up with Mel and her boys on Monday.

Here we are. I hadn't seen Melanee for 5 years but it didn't seem like it had been that long at all. We had a great time catching up and I'm so glad we were able to get together.


We took all the kids to Discovery Gateway. It was our first time there and I thought it was really neat. Milan's favorite thing was the miniature grocery store with fake food and a little cash register.










On Tuesday, we headed to Liberty Park and had a great time playing in the pool. Here's Milan sitting next to Mel and chatting away. (Milan is really into asking a lot of questions these days.) She also tried to impress Mel's boys with her sweet dance moves, but they weren't super interested :).

Visit from Grandma and Grandpa Scott

Last week, we had a fun visit from Grandma and Grandpa Scott. In true redneck fashion, they parked their camper in our apartment parking lot since we just don't exactly have a guest bedroom these days. They were good sports about it and the kids had a great time being showered with attention (I didn't have to change a diaper for an entire week!)

Here's Milan the stylist working on grandma's hair.

Grandma even let her take it to the next level and use water.

Eden playing with daddy.

Milan being tickled by grandpa.

The girlies.

The Princesses Came

A pretty ridiculous thing happened at our house. One night I painted Milan's nails for her before bed and of course one nail got smudged before it could dry. We moved on (or so I thought) then in exhausted hysterics before bed she was pretty upset that her nail was smudged. Some things were said in haste to appease this little girl so that she would just go to bed. As far as Milan knows, the princesses came in the middle of the night, fixed her smudged nail, wrote a jeweled note, brought some play-doh, princess stickers, and a pink spray bottle (the biggest hit of all!). It was definitely a magical morning for Milan. However, she has gotten some weird looks from friends when she tries to explain about the princesses who come in the middle of the night and fix smudged nail polish.

Gymnastics

Milan has wanted to go to gymnastics for months, mostly becuase she really wanted to wear her "nastics" shorts (some faded hand-me-down pajama shorts with stripes down the side.) I signed her up as soon as she turned 3 and even bought her a second pair of shorts so we were ready to go. The first couple of days she was pretty shy, but now she's pretty brave and loving it.

They start out with stretches.



Then there was a jump-flip sequence.


Milan did a flip around the bar.


They also learned some backflips. Dave helped Milan practice her backflips at home and she almost has it down.


They did somersaults and said "ta-da!" at the end of each one. (Milan is a pro at this one!)



Toddler gymnastics is seriously one of the cutest things I have seen! Today, they did "cartwheels" and I am still wishing that I had my video camera with me. I'm glad Milan is enjoying it so much!

International Day

This morning we headed downtown for International Days. Here's Milan and her friend Lizzie at the start of our adventure......looking like pretty normal girls.

After a couple of hours they had bracelets, necklaces, ribbons, painted faces, tummies full of junk food, and a stockpile of freebies. Needless to say, they loved it. They also got to meet a real live princess who Milan decided was looking for her prince so she could dance with him.

The first stop was making wildflower planters.

Next, assembliing bracelets.

Then Milan had her face painted like a Diva.



The girls stopped to make pin-wheels and earned some ribbons for their coloring talents.

After a healthy lunch of donuts, popsicles, and white chocolate-lemon bread, there was some fishing.

And some bean bag tossing.

Milan had a great time and Eden enjoyed snacking in her balloon-decorated stroller.

It's so great that Rock Springs has these free events for kids....it certainly made our day!

Two Bottom Teeth

We had a drooly, sick, and kinda sad baby for a couple of weeks then these two little teeth popped through on July 3rd (Eden's 10 month birthday).

Now Eden is back to being a happy and hungry baby!

Interested.....

For the past 10 months, Eden has had NO interest in crawling. She has been perfectly content to sit on the floor and play with the things around her. It has been very nice. Lately, she has shown a desire to get to things out of her reach. She is always trying to crawl from a sitting position. She's pretty dang flexible so it may just work out for her.


I have been trying to help her out by putting her in the crawling position. She hasn't made the connection yet, so she uses a rolling/ shimying technique to move around. She basically just rolls from tummy to back repeatedly and grunts a little bit until she reaches her desired destination.