August 19

Summer is quickly passing us by and I am just trying to soak in all these amazing moments with my baby girl!

     

Summertime means ice cream time and Little Sweetie certainly shows her enjoyment of it!

However, not even ice cream can lessen her love for Momma milk!  I never thought we would still be going strong as we come into age 2!  I won't lie, I certainly don't mind the quality time cuddles!

     

Momma, here's the boppy!

Give me the Momma Milk!

Showing off her teeth!  Someone gets to go to the dentist this month!

And the dentist appointment went great!  Look at her showing off her teeth brushing skills!

     

     

And her super brusher sticker!

Honestly, every day with Little Sweetie is a day full of smiles!

Cheesing for the camera!

Loving splash pad time!

     

Uh-oh, someone found Momma's shoes!

     

Happy smiles at lunch time!

Some of my favorite times are our times together with Big Brother!  We are going to miss him once he starts full day school later this month.

Family picnic time!

     

        

Modeling their Brother/Sister shirts!

They both have a weird love for the Old Navy mannequins!

Making their masterpieces!

Maybe I'll get some cleaning help around here yet!

Height and Weight 

Little Sweetie is getting closer to 25 lbs and getting close to 33 inches.  She loves her food, especially her Wheaties, so I know we're doing good eating.  Just nothing seems to stick to her ribs!

     

Wheaties!

Even drinking her cereal milk...the only type of non-Momma milk she's touched!

Personality

Very happy and smiley, though definitely affirming her temper if Big Brother tries to do something that she doesn't like (such as take a toy from her)!  We've had lots of success with her colors.  She can name most of them and sort things by color.  Still not ready to sing her ABCs for us yet!   

Developmental Milestones

Keeps getting more and more words and showing off her motor skills at My Gym!  This month was also a lot of fun because she had her swim lessons with Ms. J!  

     

Doing a great job at swim class!

Fun Tidbits

I guess her fine motor skills are doing ok too, since I caught this little Picasso in my laundry basket!  She was serious about it and it was so cute, I had to laugh!  At least the art was contained!

     

Making the prettiest laundry basket in the land!

Although we'll miss Little Buddy next month once he starts school, I am looking forward to some quality time with Little Sweetie.  I feel that she has just had to go with the flow since brother's diagnosis and can't wait to have some alone time to focus on her.  She's been such a champ, but I want to make sure she knows how important she is to us.  

Good night, 

LSM

Little Sweetie's Momma

Sometimes Wishes Do Come True: Animal Kingdom and Last Day

For our last park day, we headed into the Animal Kingdom!  I think The Lion King show and the character lunch were the highlights of our visit here!

Walking into Animal Kingdom!  Little Buddy immediately loved seeing the tree!

Here comes our Safari truck!

Ready to go on our Safari!

Not all of our pictures came out well, but we loved seeing all of the animals!

We were starting to get hungry and headed over to our last character lunch of the week, hoping to find the elusive Daisy Duck!

     

Loved this character lunch, especially because we...

     

...we finally found DAISY!  These two couldn't keep their eyes off of her!

     

Here's Donald!

     

Kisses for Mickey's nose!

     

Little Sister was also a big fan of the desserts!

     

     

     

They were fascinated by this cannon in Animal Kingdom!

Climbing elephant statues!

Hugs and high fives from Chip and Dale!

It was starting to get hot, so we looked for ways to stay cool!  Water toys, fountains, and rides were in our future!

     

Little Sweetie is hot, but at least looks cool in her new hat!

Working hard to stay cool!

     

Now she's really cool!  Thank goodness for fountains!

Momma and Little Buddy rafting the rapids!

Drumming on some drums!

After all the drumming, we decided that some more music and a show were in order.  Time for The Lion King!

     

They loved The Lion King show!

The Tree of Life.

Checking out the Tree of Life...right before Daddy got stung by a bee!  :(  I guess we are just lucky that it was our only injury of the trip!

We got rained out!  Time to go back to the Villa!

Checking out Little Buddy's crazy tan lines!

It was almost time for bed when we heard a knock...let's see if we have time for one more surprise!

It's Mayor Clayton, Mayor of Give Kids the World Village!

Celebrated our last night at Give Kids the World by having Mayor Clayton himself come tuck the kids in!  Little Sister was a bit frightened at first, but quickly warmed up!

     

     

     

     

     

Horse back riding for both kiddos on our last day at Give Kids the World!

Playing on the Candyland playground before we catch our flight!  What a magical week!

I can't believe it's over.  In fact, I can't believe it even happened.  I am so glad we got to share this week together as a family.  No matter what happens in the future, we will always have these memories and nothing can ever take that away from us.  We loved our trip, hated why we got to have it, but we loved the trip.  And we will keep making memories together, because sharing our love and joy is what matters!

This face.  I will do anything to keep it smiling just like this.

With wishes for the future, 

LSM

Little Sweetie's Momma