I love summer!

First off, thanks to all the help sent my way. Things are going much better with nursing. Em's still needs formula occasionally, but I'm fine with that. My plan is to wait tell after we move and things settle down before I decide what to do. Hopefully my milk will last.
So, I finally feel like it's summer! The girls and I are having a blast. We are getting to know a bunch of the families in our ward better. It's really fun, but also sad because we will be leaving soon. I LOVE our ward and our neighborhood. We will really miss it here when we leave. So this week we went swimming twice! So much fun. A friend of mine, Lindsay invited us and some other friends to go to a cool wading pool here in Des Moines. It's free (yay!) and there is a sand pit, 2 playgrounds, and free lunch for the kids in the summer. Very cool. When we got there the pool wasn't open yet, so we played at the park and then in the sand. Here's a cute picture of some of the kids in the sand.



The kids were so excited to play in the water. Kaitlyn LOVED it. It was perfect for me too, because I didn't have to worry about Kaitlyn drowning while I took care of Emily. There was a little fountain that sprayed at the edge of the wadding pool and I got a really cute picture of Kaitlyn there.


This is all the girls minus Kaitlyn and the babies


Kaitlyn ready to play


Showing some of the attitude she's famous for


So if you know Kaitlyn the next two pictures won't surprise you. Lindsay likes to say Kaitlyn has 2 hollow legs. I'm just glad she doesn't mind being malled for food by my daughter. I swear I feed her, and I bring my own snacks-they just aren't as great as what everyone else has apparently.


This is Kaitlyn with Lindsay. Once she saw the food she was done playing, and she didn't leave Lindsay's side unless she saw food somewhere else. lol, Oh well.



These are Lindsay's cute girls running to the pool.


Most of the pictures I got were of the kids backs. They were having way to much fun for a photo shoot. Plus I'm still learning how to take pictures one handed. I have to say I was impressed with Debbi's ability to take pictures and hold her youngest! She got a lot of really cute pictures too. Here's a link to her pictures: Click Here

If you live near here we are meeting again Tuesday at this park at noon. It's at vine and 4th- downtown west des moines. There's free lunch for kids and the adults can eat too it just isn't free- $2-$3. I'm not sure of the price.

Well later in the week we went to our apartments pool to go swimming. It was a lot of fun. Emily slept most of the time so I got to get in the pool with Kaitlyn. That girl is fearless! I can't believe it. So there is a little step at the deep (3 or 4 feet) end of the pool that she liked to stand on and then come to me in the pool. Well we got out for a little while and then Kaitlyn decided she wanted back in. She kept trying to just get in all by herself. So I put her on the little step so I could get in with her. Before I could get in she walked off the edge of the step. So she started to sink. Scared me to death! Luckily I was right there and got her out quickly. I thought for sure she would be done, after something so scary. Apparently I was the only one upset about it. She was ready to get right back in. She still kept trying to get in all by herself. I don't know what I'm going to do with her. She's to brave for her own good.

Kaitlyn is exactly like her dad in so many ways it's amazing. She looks like him and her personality is very similar. She even makes faces just like him. She had the Dalton look perfected at about a month. Ryan likes to play jokes on me and tease me, so I shouldn't have been surprised when Kaitlyn did too! Every morning or after her nap when I go get Kaitlyn I wait to pick her up until after she gets her binkie and her blanket. Occasionally she drops it on the floor or under her crib so I get it for her before I pick her up. Well this particular morning her binkie wasn't in her crib. So I got on the floor to look for it. I looked everywhere under the bed, by her radio, her rocking chair. I couldn't see it anywhere so I checked her bed again and then got on the floor to look under the bed again. I was just saying Kaitlyn I can't find it, I guess no binkie today when I heard something drop onto the floor and Kaitlyn giggle. I looked over and there was the binkie. I look up and Kaitlyn still has her hand in the air from dropping it and has a huge grin on her face. It was really funny. She got me really good. I don't know where she was hiding it, or what made her think to do that, but it was hilarious. She just cracks me up.