it's hard to believe, but my baby girl is three years old today! In some ways it makes me sad because I miss her as a baby, but I'm happy when I think about our friendship now. She's so fun to talk to and pretend play with, I love the stuff she picks up on. She's started having pretend conversations on the phone where she'll talk and ask questions and then answer pretend questions from whoever's on the line. We got her a princess 'tent', for lack of a better word, that she likes to hide in with Ada or her babies.

For those of you that don't know yet, we've sold our house in Kearney and are moving to Lincoln this month. We start new jobs in a couple weeks so we're busily trying to pack, find a new house, new daycare, and all the other stuff that goes along with moving to a new city. Wish us luck as we start a new chapter in our lives...

Ada got her first two teeth this week! She didn't want to waste time getting them separately I guess. They are the front bottom teeth and they are so adorable! I hope to get pictures off my camera soon so I can post one of them.

Ivy has said a few things about the moon lately that I thought were pretty cute. We were sitting outside watching the sky because there were some dark clouds. She noticed a group of low white clouds moving across the sky pretty quickly and said 'where're those clouds going?' I said they were just flying away. She said 'They're going to see the moon'...I thought that was adorable. Then Eric said they were driving somewhere and she noticed a full moon and said something like 'There's the moon, it's not broken anymore'. She just loves the moon and anything in the sky.

Ada had her 9 month well-baby checkup today (even though she hasn't been a well baby this week). She woke up with a low-grade fever on Monday morning and hasn't been able to kick it until tonight. The doctor said she probably just has a viral infection because he didn't see anything on the exam that would make him think otherwise. She weighed in at 22 pounds, 6 ounces so she's still in the 95th percentile for weight. She was 28.5 inches so 75th percentile for height and head.
She's still such a joy to be around, always happy, loves to laugh. Her favorite thing to do now that she's mobile is climb under the coffee table or end tables and just play under there. I'm not sure what the allure is, maybe she feels like it's her own little fort. She's starting to eat more table food, and likes to feed herself. She still doesn't have any teeth, but I think she's working on the bottom two front teeth. That's all for now...

So Ivy rarely watches TV or movies, which I suppose is a good thing...except for the fact that it would be a welcome break once in a while. Well the other day she was actually sitting in the chair with me watching the Curious George movie. Just when I thought 'this can't get any better', she says to me "put your arm around me mom"...I thought my heart was going to burst. Although that sweet break only lasted about 5 minutes, it made my whole day...

We've sure been getting some usage out of our backyard pool these days. Ivy is becoming quite the swimmer, and Ada enjoys the water too.  We usually go out and swim for an hour or two after her nap; sometimes her cousins come out to play!

We planned an Okoboji vacation with my family the week after Laurie's wedding since we'd already be up in northern Iowa. So we drove another hour and a half to get there Sunday after the wedding. We had such a great time, great condo, great view. There was a park at the resort for the kiddos to play on in the morning, and then most afternoons we spent on the beach playing in the sand and water. We went to Arnold's Park one afternoon and Ivy had a blast! She just loves rides, the faster the better. The little roller coaster was her favorite, she rode that over and over again, meeting new friends each time. Ivy got her haircut on the 2nd, partly because we hadn't been able to comb through it for a few days, but mostly because it was getting too unmanageable to do without a fight. I can't believe how much easier it is to get through now, why didn't we do that months ago?! We closed the week with fireworks on the lake on the 4th of July and that was an awesome sight. Thanks to Grandma Margie and Grandpa Jerry for a fun week!

We went to Humboldt and Fort Dodge this weekend for my cousin Laurie's wedding. Ivy was a flower girl and had a great time walking up the aisle with her cousin Riley. Thanks to Laurie for having her be a part of such a great wedding of such a great couple. Here are a few pictures of the day:

I told a friend of mine once that I blog too much about pet peeves, or things that annoy me. She said "why don't you phrase it like 'ever wonder why...' instead of 'i hate it when...'?" So per Laura's suggestion...ever wonder why some people use the urgent! flag in Outlook for every message they send? I'm always tempted to write them back and say something like 'oh really, it's urgent that your spellchecker isn't correcting your mistypes?' or 'just because you forgot to mention this to me weeks ago, doesn't mean I should drop everything to get it done right now'...poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine. It also makes me less interested in getting their problem taken care of. The squeaky wheel does not get the grease in this case. My apologies to those of you out there that have no idea what the urgent flag in Outlook is...sometimes I assume that everyone spends their work day in a cubiffice staring at a computer like I do...