Time Keeps on Ticking

I can’t believe how quickly the girls are growing up. This weekend I heard them saying and playing things that didn't seem right...They were talking in robot voices to each other? So odd. And now Bea can pick up her sister and carry her. And instead of the fighting outweighing the happily playing together, it is now the opposite. Much less interference, which is the way we like it. It is at this point in time that we have realized it was a good idea to have them so close together, or maybe it is just to have two. Even though it was difficult for two years, we are reaping some major rewards now. We are laughing so much these days with two talkers, singers and dancers in our house.

Imagine what a trip to DQ yesterday did to them when they were filled up with all that ice cream:



Good times.

Pismo, Take 3

We just got back from our third Pismo Beach trip this year, and this was probably the best yet. We had our tent trailer and met a group of about thirty out on the beach. It was a fun and relaxing trip for all of us, and we didn’t see too much of the girls, as they had their “friends” to play with the entire time. The four of us also experienced something new during camping that we had not before: A Sobe bomb. Amazing and unexpected. And the girls thought it was cooler than the fireworks that people were shooting off both nights. If you don’t know what it is, google it.

Also, a photo tutorial presented by the girls just like the last Pismo post:

Bea: Mommy and daddy's friends had this little itty bitty dog. Her name is Cha Cha. Her ears are larger than her body and she looks so silly, but she's so cute. Cha Cha's mommy person noticed that Cha Cha could fit easily into one of our beach toys and so we put her in there and she wasn't scared at all.


Olivia: We took her for a long ride on the beach. SHE LOVED IT. She was like a little baby.


Olivia: We were totally hardcore. That water was so cold, but we played in it until the sun went down on the first night. We even got mommy to run from a few waves, yeah! But IT WAS SO COLD. We's daredevils.



Bea: I found some shells, but not as many as last time. I am wearing the same pajamas as last time, though. Ha. The shell you see here is what mommy called the "tiger shell" because it has tiger stripes. Too bad we don't have the whole shell. The delicate shells were hiding from us this time. That was a bummer. We only brought home two of them.


Olivia: We played in the sand SO much. Do you see that tunnel that one of my new friends made? Oh, I can't remember her name but she was so much fun. She was staying at a different camp and wanted to come play with us for a while. Her mom came looking for her and I think she might have been mad, but she pretended not to be. Her camp was right up on the water and it was so cool. I liked her a lot.


Beatrice: Me and Liv were listening to music, and after a while we kind of started arguing so mom said we had to give those speakers back. Oh, I am still wearing those same pajamas....


Olivia: We didn't want mom to be mad at us about the speakers so we made her laugh by doing this.


Bea: We had a big party in our princess tent. Only kids and animals were allowed.


Liv: Mommy drank this in the evenings to try to help her sleep better. Someone told me that it says "Happy Camper", but mommy didn't seem like a happy camper when she woke up in the mornings. Maybe she should have had more?


Bea: Here I am getting all of the stuff in my car so that we can go home. We wanted to stay with our friends, but we wanted to go home, too. I love this place with the kids, the playground right outside the tent trailer, the shells, everything. I will miss it until next time. At least I am in a different pair of pajamas here.