Summer Fun
First off;
Happy Birthday to my Mother-in-Law yesterday!
I had started this yesterday, but never got to publishing it.
The kids are so adorable. They are like little sponges lately, absorbing every thing you do or say and don’t do or don’t say.
They are talking more and more everyday, and understanding the things we say too.
Last night Evelyn clearly said Thank You several times, and this morning James said Done to me, when he was done eating breakfast, and yesterday he said Bye-bye I’m 99% sure.
They are starting to pretend play, which is super fun, they copy us. Especially if they get ahold of a wipe, they try to wipe everything they can think of. The wipes container, the floor (perhaps they remember our MANY times of wiping up spit-up (like 20 a day) from when James was), or they wash momma or daddy off. It’s cute.
I got a kiss from my son yesterday, twice upon my request. He runs from Daddy when he tries to give him one 
Evelyn however dishes them out to Daddy quite frequently and Momma gets little to no love from her. I get hugs.
I took Evelyn to the waterpark the other day here, I have been wanting to take them but I’m afraid to take them both together. So I tried out our splash pad at the city park and they didn’t really like it the first time, and the second time went better but I still wanted to let them go water where they’d be submerged and float.
I wasn’t sure how to pick who went first, but in the end James & I picked Evelyn as she is less squirmy and is more clingy whereas James tends to be more bouncy and just higher energy in general that being my first time at the park also I wanted a low key time.
Evelyn clung to me when we got there, but she warmed up after I splashed around. She wandered here and there, and enjoyed being weightless though I didn’t go deep enough to stand with her, so it was difficult to hold her and float her while sitting.
Will pick a day to go with James next.
Next year I think I can handle them both, and they’ll really love the splash pad too, which is zero depth.
I’m really hoping to upload some photos of the kids today, tonight. Worst case, tomorrow night. Photos have been hit and miss with them lately, most times they aren’t interested in looking at me. Or they have a sippy cup in their mouth.
James yells a lot, not like full on screaming, but he just stops sometimes and squeal yells, and makes little dee doo de do di di di type noises or he goes Oooh. ooooh. oooh. It’s so cute, he usually does this with a bounce, or by stepping his feet up and down left right, left right, left right, left right. Sometimes he shakes his head in there, sometiems he doesn’t.
He is ADORABLE when he plays catch. He runs with his hands behind him, and spins in circles. The way he throws the ball is too cute too, he drops it and then brings his hands up and the same time to hit it forward. I must catch it on film.
Evelyn is getting some attitude if a 13 month old can have such. She’s starting to get back at her brother though. She is bigger, height wise a least. I thought I noticed a difference in them, so I measured her against the measurement we took on their birthday, sure enough she’s got about another 1/4 an inch to half inch.
James is pretty tiny for his age on average, being in the lower 10% or under in growth charts.
Anyhow, Evelyn has started to pull on James’ hair and push him down, pull him back, ect. Now, he’s done such things to her for sometime… mainly the pushing and pulling.
They were sharing blueberries at breakfast the other morning, passing between them, eating it then giving another. It was super cute.
I never can remember all the things I want to blog about, maybe because I wait so long in between blogging.
One last thing;
Jean, incoming co-president (and link on the left of Callaway Monkeys) started making barrettes as a fundrasier for the group, I’ve joined her in making them, it’s a LOT of fun.
Check out our new shop, to see what we’ve been making. They are super cute.
http://www.ribbonandglue.etsy.com
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