End of Summer Fun

We have so many updates to share. We are closing on our house here in Belleville on the 30th of September. We will be moving into an apartment for a few months in Grand Ledge while our house is being built in Dewitt. The builders are estimating a mid-December closing for the house in Dewitt. I just got a job offer this week with the Sylvan in Lansing, so I will be starting on the 28th there! Many exciting changes to come in the next few weeks..including brother and sister sharing a room for a few months!


This week we got to visit Sandi, Jeff, and Miles in Chicago. Lilly and George both loved seeing the zoo and spending time with their friend Miles.

Miles got to take Lilly on her first carousel ride. She loved it and told daddy that she liked that it went up and down.

Holding brother on the sea turtle (yes, mommy is crazy and let her hold him all by herself, but Sandi was waiting in the wings to swoop him up as soon as we were done with the pictures).

Lilly and Miles pretending to be animals. They have a whole wall of these cut outs...how fun!

We all loved our visit so much and for the first time EVER Lilly slept until 9 this morning..now if only she could convice her brother not to get up at 5:30 still!

Camping

Lilly LOVED camping! Here she is "fishing" with daddy. I'm not sure it can properly be called fishing as she would throw her line into the water and immediately reel it in, but had a blast doing it.

The best part of camping for Lilly was definately the fire, sticks, and frogs. She loved being able to sit in her own chair.

Daddy was told some great campfire stories in the process.

Lilly also got to play with glow sticks and even brought a couple of them home with her (not glowing anymore of course).

All in all the "rustic" camping went well. All three nights Lilly asked to go to bed around 9pm, so both kids were asleep in the tent which was great. They even slept in two of the mornings until 7:)