Olivia was back to visit July 5-10. One of the favorite activities to do when she is here is for all to take a bath together. It's a little different at Papa & Mama's with their big jacuzzi tub. At our house, you get to pile in like sardines. The kids didn't seem to mind though!
The reason for the visit was because Papa was inducted into the Albert Lea High School's Athletic Hall of Fame. We got to attend a fancy dinner sans children and see Papa receive his award while the children played with bonus Grandma DC (or Daisy as Carter kept calling her!) and Jeff. Denise said Carter was confused by the fact that she looked so much like Grandma Debbie. I guess when you are a fraternal twin with an opposite gender sibling, the identical twin thing is lost on you! The kids had a blast though and got to cruise around on a golf cart, play at the park, and take a bath in another big tub. We just enjoyed our evening without children hanging around!
Saturday the 9th, the day after Papa's ceremony, we had a baby shower for Baby Kunkel. Uncle Tony, or Uncle Kunkel as we like to call him, is getting plenty of children practice in! We had a great time at the shower and Amanda got lots of wonderful things for the baby. The visit was bittersweet though as we won't be seeing Holly and Joel for some time now. Baby Z is due mid-November so Holly's flying days are limited and they won't be coming back before the baby comes. It will probably be 2012 before we see them again since they understandably don't want to fly with a month old baby for Christmas. Olivia will be so different when we see her again! All we hope in this household is that at least one of them has a boy. Carter is outnumbered 4 to 1 right now and if both Holly and Amanda have girls, he will be outnumbered 6 to 1! We need at least one boy cousin for Carter! Neither is finding out in advance, so we'll have to wait until November to know.
In other news, Hannah's eyes appear to be turning green. There are some definite greenish tints in there. We seem to produce anomalies. If her eyes turn green, we will have two green eyed girls (Ellie is the other). We also already have two lefties (Ellie and Carter). It will be interesting to see which hand Hannah uses and if her eyes do turn.
This girl loves to eat! She now chows down on green beans, carrots, squash, bananas, pears, and applesauce. Next up are peas and peaches. She loves it all! She will even eat her cereal now if it has a healthy dose of fruit mixed in.
She's such a happy little lady.
And she's mastered sitting up! At 5.5 months! It helps to have such a solid base. When you are a chunk, it is easy to sit yourself in place.
It looks like she's having trouble sitting up here.....
but really she just wants to suck on her toes. Don't you wish you were this flexible?!
Nothing like nice slobbery toes!
Once she's had her toe fix, she can snap herself right back up.
Now she hangs out on the floor with pillows around in case she tips.
She loves hanging out where the older kids are and feels included in their play now. The only downside to sitting on the floor is that every now and then your brother can't help himself and has to push you over. She's defenseless and lays there like a turtle stuck on its shell which I think is what humors him. Once Hannah can start crawling, she'll get him back when he least expects it!
So that is what we've been up to around here. It's been so hot lately that we've just been staying inside and trying to find activities indoors to keep us busy. We've been logging in lots of pool time at Lifetime but have to watch our sun exposure since the baby shouldn't really be out in the sun. It's been quite a balancing act this summer. Next year will be much easier! Hope everyone is enjoying their summer as well.
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