Captions to the St. Simons, GA pics (first part of the trip)

1) First day on the beach
2) Fam pic
3) C getting used to it all and loving it
4) Av getting used to it all and loving it too
5) Cute girl in a cute suit
6) Av playing
7) C getting used to the waves. She was laughing out loud as each wave hit us. Notice the half eaten apple in her hand
8) Cute kids after dinner the first night
9) A rainy afternoon shopping trip. J (who was not happy with shopping) was in charge of keeping track of C. She was being WILD and finally found these bracelets. She spent a good 10 minutes standing there putting on as many as she could dig out of those baskets.
10) Showing mommy all her bracelets. Then John walked away just in time for mean mommy to take them off of her. Boy you should have seen the fit. The entire store heard it that’s for sure. She was on the floor kicking and screaming as I wrestled her trying to get these little, tiny, tangled bracelets off her wrist. It was not easy.
11) Av boogie boarding
12) Girls enjoying the sand
13) Av and daddy in the waves. They spent hours in the ocean playing together
14) Getting ready to build a sand castle
15 and 16 enjoying the water
17) Another fam pic (finally getting some pics with ncb in them)
18) C pulling Av on the boogy board

Captions to the “vacation pics” post (these pics are from the end of the trip)

1) C napping on John at the beach and John loving every minute of it. Notice she is sucking on her thumb
2) Everyone in the tunnel on the playground at the pizza place
3) Everyone building a sand castle
4) C napping on John for a second day in a row. He was a little more sunburned that day so we were trying to cover him up. She is cute, she will lay right down and cuddle and ask you to sing. She wants you to sing, “you are my sunshine” over and over again to her. If you stop she gets mad. If you try another song she gets mad. Love those moments though.
5) Fam pic at the pool. We were having a ball all coming down the water slides together
6) J and C enjoying the slide
7) Kids at the park
8) a lucky mother with her girls
9) Flying a kite
10) Showing mom where the kite is (heheheh)
11) C and Stella enjoying the mulch
12) Marci and I flying the kite (this was right before Marci accidentally let go of Av’s kite and they had to chase it down. Thankfully John was able to rescue it from a tree. Av was very upset until it was safely back. John and Rachelle got the girls 2 kites. It was the bee kite that got lost and Av said from the beginning that was the kite she wanted. The other was a ladybug and that was C’s kite according to Av.)
13) Cute girls in the ocean
14) a family of 5
15) Big boat that passed kind of close to us
16) St. Simons Island, GA 2010
17) Camille finishing the spinach dip with her hands
18) Camille (that is a smile on her face) throwing a ball with herself. She threw the biggest fit after this pic bc it was time to come inside
19) Sleepy girl on the way home with stickers stuck to her face (they were on her arms when she was awake) She has a very dirty face in this pic as well Av on the way home

Week 24

Things are still going great! I am so lucky for that. We had our last ultrasound with the high-risk doctor and we were released!!!!! In the doctor’s words, “he is perfect.” So we are very excited about that. What I was told that I was not expecting to hear is that at the time of the ultrasound he was breech. I know at 24 weeks that is no biggie and very common and he has plenty of time to turn and most likely will but still!! I do not want to have a c-section. I have had 2 v births and had very much planned on this one being the same. So little ncb your orders are to shape up and turn around. Don’t start acting like your silly sisters already.

st. simons island pics

vacation pics

vacation

St. Simons Island, GA here we come!!!!!! We leave tomorrow for the beach for a week. I can’t wait. We are driving straight through (hopefully) so wish us luck. It’s about an 11-hour drive. The girls are usually pretty good in the car. We will be bringing Elmo along with us for Camille. The plan is to leave at naptime so we get naps in the car and then they will sleep a little at bedtime too. Saturday morning we will be on the beach. We are going with our old neighbors. As long as Camille does not terrorize Stella all week it will be a good week.

av at cornerstone update

Av did great at Cornerstone. I am so so so proud of her. She is just such a strong, brave little girl. They said she was shy and quiet but participated and fit right in. No tears! She even took a little nap which John and I was thrilled about (not!). When I got there to pick her up she was standing at a table with 2 other kids. She had her back to me. I knelt down and when she saw me she said, “hi mamma!” but didn’t stop playing. She was happy. She talked about it happily and was excited to go today. She is very excited for it until we step inside her classroom. Today when I dropped her off a sub was in there who she spent a lot of time with last summer. The teacher always says hi to Av when she sees us dropping off or picking up Camille. The teacher said, “Avery, it’s been so long. I’ve missed you, come here and give me a hug.” She picked her up and held her for a minute. It was sweet. Camille’s teachers both checked in with Av and said hi to her during the day as well. She is a lucky girl to have some many caring people in her life.