Be quite! I am working on my puter!

Traitor cat prefers my husband and doesn’t care if that hurts my feelings.

Footie jams in summer: sighting #1

Outside swim lessons are exciting

Our collection of Wendy’s kid meal clicky things is now very impressive

Adorable sleeping hands

Beluga watching

Obsessed with Friendly’s, like all good New England children

Aunt Amy sent Caroline some costume jewelry. Caroline likes ALL of it.

He told me he was sailing to New York City

There is so. much. sand. in my car.

Dance recital finale practice is more fun for her than me

Grocery shopping is cause for fancy dress

Two of a kind

Dress rehearsal (The routine was to Deep In The Heart of Texas, which starts “The stars at night, are big and bright…”)

8:30 am, lazy baby. (Footie jams #2)

You’d think she’s never seen grapes before.

Falling asleep on the couch is one of the best parts of summer (Footie jams #3)

Baby prep day! Now we can spy on the children without missing The World Cup…

We have one extra place to set the baby down (beside the borrowed rock’n’play and the free basket)…

And I have drunk so much red raspberry tea I might actually turn pink. COME ON BEBEH!

E is baffled why ANYONE would lie in the horrible, horrible sand, let alone someone who shares his DNA

The weirdo that made him a father, celebrating Father’s Day at Chili’s.

Wizards in training

Bed head

She insisted Baby Jesus needed to come to the post office with us

The princess demanded a strawberry coolata. Princesses run on Dunkin.

Snacks in her chair are her new favorite.

Next year they will BOTH be getting on buses to go to school.

Monsters at the grocery store. MONSTERS.

Both kids wanted to give the afternoon driver a present. They’re going to miss her.

Water slide party at Stay & Play!

Creepy baby watches you in the bath.

Morning puppet shows

Afternoon weridos in boxes

Evening photo assistants

Stroller Strides in our AWESOME Cocoon X2. They love it.

Free Fanta Orange samples at BJ’s. You can see the crazy sugar high in her eyes.

MOAR MAGIC SPARKLERS

I went to a (sad) estate sale where everything left in the house was for sale. I wish there was a way to go back in after the new owners fix it up, it’s going to be GORGEOUS.

I bought a stool at the estate sale. They are insisting it is a table.

Chugging her lemonade while refusing her dinner.

Take your children to work day (because people feed them),

They took turns pushing each other on a big kid swing. I’M FREEEEEE.

Look at all that glorious empty floor space! If I took that picture right now it would not look that clean. At all.

3 year old heaven

It is shocking our friends still agree to play marbles with my husband.

That is not her beer.

A block fell on his nose because his tower was REALLY tall

Playing with my piggies

Everything about this photo cracks me up

WINTER COATS BECAUSE SCREW YOU CONNECTICUT

Awwwww, what a cute little ferret that will NEVER EVER COME TO OUR HOUSE

BFFs

Mommy, take my picture!

(Fisheye) Lunch of the front steps

Gorgeous night for a maternity session

Peek a boo?

He takes my appointments very seriously

Can’t wait! Family movie day!

We can’t go to the grocery store without visiting our lobster friends.

STRAWBERRIES

False alarm contractions sent me to L&D and then home again. The good news (?) was I wasn’t imagining it, they could see them on the monitors. The better news is they weren’t doing anything so the doctor isn’t worried. The bad news is this will probably keep happening (minus going in to L&D) until I go into real labor.

These are my “before” flowerpots, but that didn’t stop her from trying to take care of them.

She asked for purple flowers to plant (I don’t even know what these are).

Mother’s Day at Chili’s (again) calls for finger guns

Freezing, FREEZING cold water

The gingers are unphased by cold

So excited about her chocolate frog she forgot to take the plastic off.

She tied that all by herself.

Thank God for iPads (during my NST)

Wishflowers

Pweeeese we swim some more Mommy? Pweeeeeese?

We bought cat food and paper towels and batteries at Walmart. She is hugging the batteries.

Fawkes Phoenix is Evan’s new BFF

Looking pensive about the rain

In case you thought they were GOOD at posing for pictures.

Sleeping Beauty

What is this weather even??

Next year, SHE is going to be coming home on that bus.

Another day, another visit to L&D

When you get the Metro-North seats with the power outlet, you get to play Angry Birds all the way in to the city.

Shake Shack is actually as good as everyone says.

I think our last family picture (selfie or otherwise) was in October. We heart NYC.

Hello New England, you look lovely from the air.

May the Fourth be with you!

Exhausted and swollen but shocked by how much I missed these kids.

Yay Spring!

Caroline picked me flowers

Moe’s was as close as we got to celebrating Cinco de Mayo

Preschool drop off shenanigans

Weirdo is obsessed with this basket

Evening family walk is my new favorite

First of many non-stress tests for Baby #3

They’ve graduated to the deep end (with help) and it stresses me out

Who doesn’t love H&M?

Three going on sixteen

Not mad, just showing off the guns

Super happy Daddy is home

Someone threw money in this statue which only has 2 inches of water in it. I made the gingers put it back after they fished it all out because it felt like…stealing? Ruining someone’s wish? I’m not even sure.

The best ice cream in Connecticut @Mystic Drawbridge

Green

Back in the hospital birthing center, my new home.

Humid weather gives her curls

The sky after the wedding I photographed