What a great weekend!

Kelly and Kevin kept Charlee Kate while Jeremy and I had an afternoon out and about. It was a nice break. We decided to start doing a "swap out" once a month. Now here are the girls ready to go on a bike ride. They look soooo excited right?

Ella got dropped off because she decided this was not for her and Jeremy kept going with Charlee Kate

She decided she liked this

Going for a wagon ride

Mae and Charlee Kate at Mae's first birthday party at Hooters. Check out the background. I didn't realize that until after the picture, haha! These were all taken with my phone because I forgot my camera. Charlee Kate LOVED her Hooters Rubber Ducky

Mae eating birthday cake

Charlee Kate was sooo entertained by all the waitresses and I think they were entertained by her as well

A Thursday Play Date

We are missing our summer play dates. We had lots of fun play dates with lots of friends. Mae and Charlee Kate are used to "running" together. Today Jacki and Mae came over and we took the girls for a run and then they played at my house. The girls loved it and they are really starting to notice each other so Charlee Kate was excited to see Miss Mae today. It is sooo cute. Here are just a few snapshots. I should have taken many more pictures. Happy 1st Birthday Mae!!!

I loved this picture and when I looked over there... they were in Chloe's toys. For some reason her toys seem to be so much more fun

Charlee Kate fell on top of Mae and just took her time getting off. I had to push her along and little Mae just laid there. Charlee Kate hasn't quite figured out to watch where she is walking.

I am very very excited that tomorrow is Friday. I am totally looking forward to a wonderful weekend with Jeremy and Charlee Kate. YAY for the weekend.

How will I leave this sweet face?

See that sweet face...What am I going to do now that school is back in? No more early morning runs and taking Charlee Kate, not nearly as many Dunkin Donuts coffee breaks (which CK loves b/c of her blueberry munchkins), no more time during the day to just lay in the floor and play with my sweet little girl or take her out of the house (her favorite to just get up and go places) and..... International Mall is going to call wondering if something happened to the two of us. Ummmmm.... Oh well... back to the daily routine. That is just part of life I guess and once we are in the routine, things fall into place well. I am very very blessed to have a job that I love, people I love to work with, live so very close to my job, and have an amazing person to keep Charlee Kate. So even though it is sad to get back into the daily grind, I know things will be good once we are in them. The positive that comes out of all of this is, each day that passes means one day closer to Fall! I am ready for cool temperatures, the smells of fall, fall food, fall clothes, and definitely FOOTBALL!!! I am so thankful for the last 2 months I have had with Charlee Kate and I know I am so lucky to have had summer time with her. I will keep the pictures coming, I promise.

I love this picture... she knows where the shoe goes and kept trying to put them on her feet. Check out that other hand too : )

Lets go Shopping!

If only you could see the Neimans sign behind them! Mae and Charlee Kate loved loved looking down and going all over the place. They are becoming quite the little "buddies" now! I think Mae likes it better because Charlee Kate can get around now, LOL

Taking apart the shelves at J Crew

This was when we were in Orlando at Mall of Millenia. Charlee Kate and I were having breakfast from Panera since we got "dropped off" at the mall at 9:00 and nothing was open, haha!

I know I know... the floor was nasty, but she wanted to crawl so bad. I can't expect her to sit for 5 hours. She did do a lot of walking, but crawled too.

Here she is at Nordstrom Rack. After 5 hours of shopping she was exhausted and we were waiting on Jeremy to come pick us up. She loves it though and cried when we left the mall today. She loves all the attention and all the things that are "new". Luckily everyone at International at our "usual stores" know her by now so they let her do whatever.

Lets go shopping mommy!!!

Charlee Kate walking!

So here they are... videos of Charlee Kate walking. They aren't in the best places, but you still get the idea. She is walking everywhere and loved walking all over Bloomingdales and Neimans outlet in Orlando. She was everywhere!!!! One video is at the pool (obviously) and the other was in one of the ballrooms at the hotel. It was just big, quiet, and lots of carpet so she loved it!

A little mini vaca....

What an amazing mini vacation we had. Charlee Kate and I tagged along with Jeremy to Orlando while he did a little work. He dropped us off at Mall of Millenia (a favorite of mine) for about 5 hours and boy did I have a shopper on my hands. She was so good! Then we just enjoyed the pool, dinner, and some walks at my favorite resort here in Orlando. It was so much fun and a much needed vacation and rest with my 2 favorites before school starts back.

She loved this pool

The lazy river...it was like a stroller in water. It kept moving and she loved it!

She walked all over the water falls! These were her favorites!

Water was spouting up right here so she was trying to figure out what was going on

Oooo...sand!!!

The sand was a totally different story this beach trip. She didn't mind it nearly as much! She wasn't too sure about this water washing up, but liked the sand much better. I think a lot of the reason was she was walking in it. My little girl is taking off everywhere! Of course, now she uses her "crawling method" much much more, but she pulls up on furniture then takes off walking. If she can just figure out how to stand up in the middle of the floor on her own, walking be the method of transportation I am sure. She LOVES to walk and thinks she is such a big girl!!! I will post a video very soon! We got in at 3:30 in the morning, Charlee Kate decided to party until about 4:15, then we were all up at 8:15, and about to head out for a mini family vacation for a couple of days. It never stops, but lots and lots of pictures to come soon. Maybe I can do that in the car??? Multi-tasking is what I like to call it and I need to do a lot of it over the next 6 days!