Raking on a Beautiful Day

Water fun

Some random shots...

I am embarrased.

It has been so long since i last posted to the blog. Work happened. UGGA. In the past few weeks, Ava started morning Pre School, ballet and soccer. She also brought home pink eye to the ENTIRE FAMILY. We have all been sick for what feels like EONS. RIch was spared the pink eye. LUCKY!

Claras language continues to blossom. But she still prefers to point and say 'dah!'. She not nearly as serious as Ava was, and in fact, is much more cuddly and smiley. How odd they can be 2 different beasts! She also had her 2nd incident of nurse maid elbow the other night. UGGA. 2 hours in ER over dinner time. BLARG. They were as good as they could be I guess. They took and x-ray just to be safe because of the way it happened...she fell on it instead of having it pulled away from her body.

Ill post some recent mobile photos since i haven't downloaded the camera yet!

Ava this summer

Ava has basically taught herself how to swim this summer. It has been pretty amazing to watch. She just wants it so bad shes going for it. She really can swim doggie paddle for a little distance with head above water and she can also swim under water. She loves getting thrown in and jumping off our backs. Clara has also gotten a little more more fearless going into the water by watching Ava.

All summer we have been using everyone elses boogies boards at Good Harbor or down the cape. My mom finally got one for Ava. She loves tooling around on it in the water like a giant kick board or pretending its a skim board on the shore line.

She also got her first pair of roller blades! WOOT! totally. Shes getting OK at it....but its not as easy as i think she thought it was going to be. ha!

18 month check Up - Clara

This happened a few weeks ago- Claras 18 months check up -I am a bit behind. 'Sigh'.

So, Clara is 22.6 lbs & 33 inches long. Guess what? That is almost exactly waht she was at her 12 month appt. Then she got pneumonia and everything changed. Im not sure if it was the amoxicillin or what. But she sort of stopped eating and stopped eating the things she was really good at eating. Hot dogs, mac and cheese...i mean she was as good a eater as Ava.


The doc doesn't seem overly concerned but we have a weight check with her in 3 months instead of waiting for 6 months for her 2 year check up.

Awesomely enough she has been peeing on the potty! not all the time but sometimes once a day or every other day. She absolutely hates her diaper and takes it off any time she can. Her language develops at a slower pace than Avsa did. Shes got her words: no, dog, cow, shoe, bye, mama, dada, meatball, milk, more, water.....a few more maybe. Amy would know better than I. She can also say small phrases, like more milk, more water, no mama. She knows a large spectrum of colors when asked. She can sort by size and color, maybe even shape?


Clara LOVEs to laugh and I dont know one person that doesn't love it when shes laughs. She got the best giggle. Ava really can make her laugh which is pretty darn awesome. Next to her awesome laugh is her awesome dance skill. She will dance to anything that carry any sort of tune. It is pretty awesome. Ive got video to download and post!

July Vacation 2010

We had our annual vacation this past week down the cape at Rich parents house. We could not have picked a better week as the weather in Boston was hot, hot and more hot with some intense humidity.

However, before we went to the cape, Rich laid down the flooring in the basement. Quite a job with non square edges and an uneven floor. He did awesome! check out the pics. Ava was very upset in one of these pictures...Rich had packer her screwdriver in the car to bring to the cape. Her screwdriver is her scooter. For wahtever reason she calls the thing a screwdriver.