Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Birthday Girl (Belated) and other summer fun

Here's our little 3 year old on her birthday. Her friend Sophie invited her over for a dress up tea party on her special day. We had a party this past Saturday with family to celebrate too!

Nora has been having fun with all her new birthday presents. Here she is painting on her new easle. We are still remodeling our sunroom, but it is progressing slowly but surely and we are enjoying it on these more mild summer days.

On hotter summer days we've been going to the local pool. In fact, we haven't even gotten a kiddie pool for our house yet, so we've been filling up tubs of water and turning the sprinkler on. The girls love it-they don't know what they're missing!

It's been fun watching the girls start to interact more. Sometimes they play really well together, with Anna talking baby talk, smiling, and laughing back at Nora. And sometimes Anna is the unwilling victim of Nora's games. Here Anna is Nora's wiggly patient. Anna loves to suck on Nora's doctor tools while Nora gives her a check-up.

In late July, we went on a little mini-vacation. We stayed at the house next to Justin's grandpa's house on his lake with Justin's cousin's family. We spent hours down by the lake swimming and also, Justin taught Nora how to fish. Wait, is that...yes that is Grandpa Jeff fishing with a Tinkerbelle pole.

Justin and Anna swimming.

Nora was outnumbered with boy cousins her age, Benjamin and Ethan, so she joined right in to their muddy building and water fight activities.
Here's Anna and her little cousin, Juliet, playing at the children's museum.

Uncle Jon not letting Nora off the dock until she said the password. She thought that was so funny!

And as promised, here is our bathroom remodel reveal.