July So Far

Reilly usually likes to read a bed time story and here she and Chris got cozy with the caterpillar and read her number book. It's always the number book. On the bright side, she knows a lot more numbers than she used to. :) Whenever I can get her to read a different book I always jump on the chance because it doesn't happen very often. Also you will notice in the picture that Reilly was wearing her new pajamas which include a little green tutu. It was in instant favorite.

We are hearing a lot of new words everyday, but Reilly always love to put "big" in front of words. So, we always talk about the big dog (who lives at cousin Felicity's house), big trucks we see out the window, big balloons, etc. Whenever we leave the house (even just to get the mail) we have to say bye to all the toys and the house itself. It takes us a while to get anywhere. Reilly constantly asks for "one more" and when we say no more, she asks "two?" When she gets hungry she either says "snack" or goes straight to "mac and cheese?" We don't eat mac and cheese very often, so it's a nice treat. Her "milk" sounds a lot like "no" (which is confusing) and when she wants water she says "R." When don't get to see my parents as much as we would like, but we are constantly talking about/calling on a fake phone Papa, Nana and Gigi. Reilly usually graces them with a song while she is talking to them on her fake phone as well. We also get some nice tunes out of Reilly whenever we are driving in the car. 

As far as everything else goes, July has been much cooler than June and therefore much more manageable. PTL! On Thursday I will only have 5 weeks left to go of the pregnancy but still hopefully enough time to get all prepared for her arrival. One of our bigger tasks will be to figure out how to fit in all the extra baby stuff we will need in our midst. We are also working on transitioning all the cleaners and other toxic chemical laden things OUT of our house. Reilly had a few close calls that I can remember, and after doing some research we found a company that offers many different products (cleaning, bath items - among other things) that are non-toxic at a great price. Facts are facts and you just can't watch your kid every second of the day, so the better solution is to get rid of the harmful things that they might get into. It will give me a much greater peace of mind...especially since there will be two that I will have to worry about. :)

Other than that, we are hoping to take things as easy as possible (although just yesterday we bought a used table and chairs that needs refinishing...not exactly relaxing).

Thanks for catching up with us!