end of summer

The girls reading to their doll in the bassinet

The new baby should be here any day now, and the girls can not wait!  Willa keeps asking when the baby will "hatch out" and they are constantly trying to come up with possible names. Some recent ones they've thought of are: Cotton, Violet, Rose, Heart Rainbow, and Flower. When I mention any possible names they are often quick to come up with reasons why that would be a terrible name. One day Willa got a bit exasperated and said, "Mom, I'm tired of all of this (coming up with names). Let's just name her Pink Flower, OK?!"

I'm happy to say though that we've found a name that all four of us agree on, although the girls do not really know which name we've picked...but when the name was mentioned a few times as a possibility it was one of the few that they both liked. :) Hopefully the announcement will come soon!



The heat wave has finally broken, but here's some pics from a few weeks ago when we were outside trying to stay cool!

Mud fight!

Playing beauty shop outside--washing hair, and watering the grass too!