Sunday, July 24, 2011

A Little Bit of Summer

Such a little cutie-pie!

She really does smile quite a lot, but it's hard to capture on camera :-)
Me and my girls!
Photo shoot! We got a lot of these photos--it was hard to pick out just a couple for the blog.
We finally had a couple more days of summer sunshine around here! On Saturday we went to a place called Cates Park in North Vancouver near a little village called Deep Cove. I had heard lots of good things about this place and figured it was worth the 45 minute drive. However, we learned that if we want to go to a good beach (sandy, not rocky) with a playground at it (which was the main attraction for venturing out to this destination) then we should just go to the sandy beach/playground combo that's only about 10 minutes from our home--it's waaaaaay better! Oh well! It was fun having the adventure anyway!
Our little mermaid on the rocky beach.
Her hair is getting so long...she is such a little girl now!

Greta was really not herself this day--she was getting sick. On the way back we wanted to go into the village to get the famous honey donuts sold there. Greta expressed a great desire for some milk to go with her upcoming donut as well, so we reassured her over and over that we would also get her milk. She fell asleep before we got there (about 4pm) and mumbled pitifully, "Milk..." in her sleep. Alas, they had no milk. Fortunately when she awoke about 40 minutes later (Matthew just ran in and picked the treats up for us, rather than wake both sleeping girls) she was satisfied with the juice he had gotten her. Once home we put the donut in front of her and she ate maybe 2 bites before saying she was sleepy and wanted to go to bed! It was 5:30! We promptly put her to bed. The next day, Sunday, she clearly had a high fever--103 under the arm and she wouldn't even let Matthew finish taking her temp! She took a 5 hour nap on Sunday, was awake for 2 hours in the afternoon, and then went back to bed for the night! Poor girl. Today she is still not herself but doesn't seem to be feverish...now Matthew and I are starting to feel a twinge of sickness. I just hope Therese doesn't get it!

Therese is "talking" so much more lately. When I came back from a grocery trip the other night she was sitting on Papa like this going on and on and on about something very important!
Little sunshine! She is constantly sucking on her fists or trying to get her thumb in her mouth.
We tried to capture the sweet smiles she gives when I blow raspberries on her neck, but there was too much movement going on!




I love those cute saggy cheeks :-)
She really wants to start scooting around!

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