Week's Activities

This week was spent playing and hanging out. It was nice to relax a little after our yard sale last weekend. We made $140 . . . not bad for our first yard sale ever! My parents came to help us out and I'm so glad they did! It made it so much easier with making sure someone was outside for the yard sale and someone was watching both kiddos. Emily LOVED being outside the whole time and made sure people knew what things she was selling also. We took her to the Dollar store afterwards to get a small reward for helping sell some of her things. She picked out a jump rope and more necklaces.

Last Friday I was working on getting stuff ready for the yard sale and Emily asked me to come to her room to sing some songs to her because she was getting ready to take a nap. When I went in her room this is how I found her:
This has been her play of choice this week. She laid pillows all over the living room and put an animal on each one and covered them with blankets and told me they were taking naps. Right now she is downstairs reading some books and laying on the couch with some covers. She told me she had some reading she had to do before taking her nap. Wish the girl would take a real nap : ) She also got some play fabric I got her and cut some squares out to place on several of her babies so they could take naps.

The other day I was upstairs and she kept hollering from downstairs to tell me that she was a baby. So I went downstairs to investigate and this is how I found her:
Crazy nut! She also discovered all of the toys I pulled out of the attic to get ready for Abigail and has been playing with those toys all week. I told her she was welcome to play with them but had to keep them in Abigail's room. Otherwise the poor girl isn't going to have anything in her room to call her own . . . and Emily's room is starting to get overrun with stuff everywhere : )

On Wednesday, Joe took a day off (they have started working every other Saturday so he is going to take a day off during the week from time to time . . . thankfully!) so we enjoyed some time at the park:

Abigail enjoyed the swings for the first time:
For some reason Emily has stopped going down slides. I don't know why. Joe tried to talk her into going down some but she wouldn't go down them unless he went with her:
She does down our slide at home all the time but won't go down any of them at parks. . . . even the little ones . . . don't know why . . .

Then we went to Emily's swimming lesson. Joe had to stay outside the whole time because the second Emily saw him she started crying for him across the pool area. Once he left she did fine and even floated on her back with the teacher only having 1 finger under her head!!!
Abigail had her 6 month appt on Friday. She weighs 16 pounds 3 oz and is 26 1/2 inches long! She continues to be in the 70-75% for height and weight. The doctor put her on an acid reflux medicine because I told him that she coughs every night. I never would have thought that was due to acid reflux. He said give it a week and see if the coughing stops. If it does then her problem is acid reflux and I should give her the medicine for a couple of months.

She hasn't seemed very interested in her cereal this week so he told me we could start on veggies this week since they have a little more flavor. So we'll see how that goes! Abigail has a head cold right now so she hasn't felt too great . . . so I might wait a couple of days before trying new foods.