Where have my babies gone?

Abby & Ellie are not babies anymore, and have fully embraced their inner toddler. Abby has been talking up a storm for a while now. She's starting to put her words into sentences. We're always laughing at some of the things she comes out with. If Rosie is in her way, she says, "beep beep Ro Ro". At bed time, the last thing she says to us is "night night Mama, night night Dada" Melts my heart every time.

Ellie is starting to say more words and has a couple of short phrases. We noticed she was slightly behind Abby's speech and had her evaluated for early intervention, a couple of months ago. Ellie has made great progress in the last month, or so, and I'm sure she'll be speaking well before too long.

It's great to watch them learn to do things for themselves. They love opening and closing doors, climbing in and out of their car seats, brushing their teeth, getting dressed (and undressed), and feeding themselves. Some times they combine things:






We've had an extremely busy summer. It's been one thing after another and the time has gone by too quick. At the beginning of the summer, the circus was in town. I thought it would be great to bring the girls to their first circus.



It went much better than I thought it would. Abby and Ellie were fine with the loud noises and seemed to like all of the action. Once we were settled and I had a chance to look around, I realized we weren't going to last very long. It was probably over 95 degrees out that day, with high humidity. I think it was over 100 degrees in the tent. We were all wilting at the intermission and decided to make a move.



The workers at the circus were the show within the show.


After the circus, we went to the park, to watch Brady's last T-Ball game of the season. We grabbed burgers and fries for the girls and headed to the game.



After dinner, it was time for the playground!



We took a trip to Loon Mountain in New Hampshire for a long, getaway weekend. We saw the bear show & rode the Choo-Choo Train at Clark's Trading Post.



We also went to StoryLand, in Glen, NH.



There's been lots of playing in the backyard.









Ellie's been working on her golf game:



and dancing along with her favorite shows!