Random-ness

Lake day!

Dan is crazy and will sometimes schedule trips out to the lake on the days that he has worked the night before. We went with Grammy and PaPa this time, and the girlies had been asking and asking when they were going to go with them again. We had scheduled a time two weeks ago, and when it didn't work out at the last second, Maddie and Faith were both crying. So, they were quite excited about today.

They both helped make their own fruit pizzas yesterday on smaller 12" pizza pans. They loved it. Faith is getting more and more interested in helping bake like her big sissy. So, they had fun especially since they each got to spread their own icing and decorate with their own fruits. We added pineapple- peach jelly this time to the icing (leftover from Kitchen Kettle Village) this time, and it tasted really good. We ate almost all of Maddie's fruit pizza yesterday for dessert, and Faith was proud to take hers to the lake today.

Darn flies and bees though-- they flocked to Beebster's fruit pizza and pretty much ruined it. Nobody wanted to eat it! Grammy brought Subway, and we were all happy. She also brought them these little bathtub fish that made their day (I swear these girls get giddy over the most trivial little gifts and it's great!) and they kept pretending their fish were sleeping on the beach.

My Abrie girl is getting to be a 'big kid' (ha!) and, of course, doesn't want to sleep just anywhere anymore. She's a 4 month old-- there's too much to see and do in this world! The lake is a very stimulating environment, and she just loved it until it got to be too much. Luckily, the dressing stalls are very nice and I always go and nurse her there and she falls asleep for me. She has so much entertainment though in just watching and observing those cool big sisters of hers; it's great. I always pack her toys, but she gets the best kicks out of watching big sisters entertain themselves with swaying tree branches and on the playground, and she just loves when you walk her around on the grass. The girl stands so well! She also was intent on watching this one goose that kept coming for our food. 

All in all, it was a great day. We love the lake. It's free and it's fun. It's getting ridiculous thinking that next week is September already, and I think we're both intent on having as much fun through the last days of summer.

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I'm always doing things with these little ladies. I'm on the go non-stop. I'm always taking them out walking. I've decided that every other night (the nights that only Abrie gets a bath for her hair wash.. the other nights all three are in the tub) I'll go out walking after dinner. The other night all 5 of us went, and tonight I took my three girlies while Dan stayed back to pack. I was going to only take Abrie, but Maddie and Faith came and said they wanted to come as well. It cracked me up because I told them they could come, but that this would be a walk without poking around and they'd have to run to keep up, and maybe even sprint. Hahaha. Beebster flew as fast as she could to Abrie's room and got her loafers and then a pair of socks and came back to me nodding her head emphatically "Esss! Momma! I go!". And, Maddie got her lace-up sneakers "so that I can keep up with you, Momma!" Hahaha. 

I took Abrie in the umbrella stroller for the first time, and she absolutely loved it. I remember taking Faith at 4 months too in the umbrella stroller, and that she also loved it. Abrie seemed to really enjoy facing out and watching Maddie and Faith run ahead of her. Of course, the poor baby got showered with flowers that they would pick for her.