these girls

post gelato chococrazy fun

Mark is away for a couple of weeks and while this is HARD work alone, each night they fall asleep I can hardly believe my beautiful daughters. They are starting to get to the age where I can't quite believe they came from me. They are so interesting and beautiful and funny and real. I'm thankful I get the opportunity to remember their beauty (inside and out) after a long, somewhat stressful, nonstop kind of day. Just watching them sleep is like tonic.

seriously!? even with chocolate on her face. my love.

our impromptu marching band down the street. I played the ukulele.

driving me crazy on the playroom table for the 600th time in three minutes

a trip to the forest

Well, a trip to Forest Park anyway. It's a big reason we moved over here, so we could take advantage of being close to Forest Park. We went to the Redwood grove in the Hoyt Arboretum. The girls LOVED it. I had no idea Eloise would be such a hiker. I barely had to carry her. And while Dalia was terrified it would be "dangerous" at first, it took her about two minutes to realize that "Silvermist" had been there (Tinker Bell reference). Mark and I got a good dose of much needed oxygen and a trip to the Redwoods where ever they are is medicine for us. Of course, I had my camera.