Been off for awhile

It has been awhile since I have done a post.

I just find it hard to sit down and post during the

day with the babies here, but

the little one is asleep and the big one is watching

some cartoons.

We have been busy with the "big" girl working on learning

our alphabet and numbers.  I have a subscription on "ABC Mouse.com" and so far it it fantastic.  Lorelai loves the games and songs and I think

she is doing really well with everything.  You just can't sit around and wait for kindergarten anymore - as they expect the kids to know how to read when they enter kindergarten now - so, so different than it was when I taught. Anyway, we are working with her and we shall see how it goes.

I promised that I would add the pictures of the antique car

show that Dan and I went to the first part of the month - so here goes.....

One of my favorites

Our friend Neil

Our friends Carol and Neil

 Carol

My guy standing by his favorite - a truck, of course!

One of my other favorites!

This is just a few of the cars - 

there were over 200 cars at the show - two parking lots full!

It was fun to see all the different cars.

Two weeks ago they had the "pumpkin patch" in the circle

here in Lake Placid.

Not as big and fancy as some, but we got some

cute pictures of the girls.

Adalyn and Lorelai

Lorelai and her friend Kenzie

Ada-Bear

Sweet Lorelai

My little pumkin!

The girls with their pumpkins!

Ada with her pumpkin!

Such fun!

Well, I'll close for today.

We are suppose to have some really cool weather here

this weekend - lows in the low 40's and highs only in

the low 70's!  Yippee!!!!!

Dan and I plan on going to a craft fair down in 

Ft Myers so it should be a good day.

Hope you are having great weather

and I'll talk to you soon!

Hugs!!!!

Heartbroken!!!!

I am just heart broken.

Dan and I lost our sweet, beautiful

Samantha Ann a week ago.

It happened so quickly

and we just are

having such a

difficult time

accepting that she is gone

I have never had a

dog that was as

much of a family member

as this sweet baby was.

She was our four legged baby

and you could never ask

for a better puppy.

I can not tell you how much we are going to

miss this sweet girl.

We love you Sammie Ann

and you will live

in our hearts forever.

Everyone has been Sick!!!

Goodness, I don't like being sick!

Everyone around here has had colds - Ada started everyone

off coming down with a cold about three weeks ago.

Then Lorelai got it - followed very closely by

her momma, daddy, and me.

Dan was the last one to come down with it, but it

has hit him the hardest I think.

I went with Melissa last week when she took the girls to the

doctor - Ada also has an ear infection - so she is on

antibiotics.  She should finish them up this week.

We all are on the up swing now - I still have a little bit of a stuffy nose, but Dan still has a horrible cough!  We are getting better - guess it just takes time.

The girls had to go back to the doctor this week for their "wellness check" and poor little Ada had to get four shots while Lorelai had blood drawn and one shot.  Melissa and I were so proud of Lorelai - she didn't cry at all when they drew her blood.  We were both amazed, but she was such a trooper!

They are both growing sooooo fast!

Lorelai is 36" tall and weighs 32.8 pounds!

Talking up a storm and wants to

"do it meself".

(But she will let me "help")

Adalyn is 27" tall and weighs 22.1 pounds.

Not quite walking, but really close.

She is starting to let go of things when she

is "cruising" around on the furniture.

Don't think it will be long before I'll have TWO

walkers!

Oh my goodness!!!!

They are both in overall good health -

(they still had a little bit of their colds and Ada's ear was

not completely well when we went back to

the doctor on Tuesday).

Other than all of us being sick, not much has been

going on.

We are thinking about going up to Dowling Park for the weekend NEXT week - 

but we shall see.  We don't know what we would do with the pups.  We know that our friends that we would stay with wouldn't mind us bring the puppies, but we just feel funny taking them since Neil and Carol don't have any pets.

We would really like to get away for a weekend, but we shall see if we can figure something out.

Well, I don't have anything else to report - just wanted to check in and let you know that we are all doing okay.

Have a great weekend 

(we have 70% chance of rain all weekend).

Looks like a quiet indoor weekend

for us!

No Excuse.

Well, here it is the first part of September

and I haven't posted anything since

July!  I really have no excuse other than I can

not stand my new laptop computer.

I so wish we had not purchased it, it was not a 

well thought out purchase, but I will now have to live with it

as it is too expensive to replace again.

I keep hoping that I will get used to it and I will start

liking it - but I really don't see that happening.

We shall see.

Anyway, other than that I really have no excuse for not posting.

We really have not done much around here - no new

projects going - just too hot (still) to do anything outside

and we don't have anything really planned for the

interior.

I spend the week keeping the little ones - they are both growing so darn fast!

It is hard to believe that Ada is almost 9 months old.  She is crawling everywhere and pulling up.  I think she might be an early walker, but I guess only time will tell for sure.

She does love to climb on everything and

followers her big sister around.

The picture above was taken about a month ago and she has grown

so much since then.

(I really need to be a better Nana and take more pictures of the little one).

Lorelai is growing by leaps and bounds also.

The pictures above were taken last week when we were in the backyard playing with bubbles.

She is talking so much more (and understandable instead of "Chinese").

They are both such sweet little ones but they do

keep us hopping during the week!

Now on to more mundane things -

we are having to replace the golf cart tires - they absolutely have

no tread left on them (the back tire had the belts showing this morning).

Dan has been saying for a couple of months that we were going to have a flat and end up stranded somewhere with the two girls.  Not a good prospect - so he took two down today to have them replaced and then we will do the other two in a couple of months.

We did take a ride out when we had the super moon a couple of 

weeks ago and I was able to get a few shots, even though it

was pretty cloudy.

Don't have much else to report - 

hope you are having a great day!

Take care and I'll

try an talk to you soon!

Where is cooler weather????

The last couple of weeks have been a little crazy.

Disclaimer:  This post has a LOT of pictures of the two girls.

Let's start with last week.

Monday Lorelai had a make up swimming lesson.

(Please forgive the quality of the pictures - they were taken

with my phone)

Lorelai and Ms. Erin

 Kick, kick, kick

She was not a real happy camper but she always did whatever

she was asked to do.  She might be crying while she was

doing it, but she did do it.

Tuesday Dan had his second eye surgery.  Both of the surgeries have

gone well and he no longer has to wear glasses at all - well, 

he does need very low magnification glasses to read.

In fact, we just went to WalMart and got the lowest magnification

they had.  So far, they have worked out well.

Wednesday was a "normal" day with the girls.

Playing in the family room.

Yo dude, what's up???

Too cute!

The little one is growing so darn fast!

Thursday, I had my eye appointment, so the girls were

picked up early.

The doctor's appointment went well.

The good news is I don't have cataracts therefore I don't need

surgery - but I do need much stronger glasses.  I should

be getting the new ones this coming week.

Now, maybe I'll be able to read for longer than 15 minutes

without my eyes burning and tearing up.

Friday was Lorelai's final swimming lesson.

Not wrapped around Ms. Erin's neck -

just leaning over her arm.

She actually did much better.  I don't know if she knew it was

her last lesson, but she didn't cry as much and seemed to

actually enjoy being in the water for the first time.

She still can't "swim" (she only had a week of lessons and those were not five days in a row), but she can "bob" under the water and

then grab the side and "monkey crawl" to the stairs.

She still needs more time to really get it, but

this was a beginning. Plus, she is only two.

We'll continue to work with her and

hopefully, next year, she will be able to

do more than just one week.

This week we have been back on our "normal" schedule.

We spent a lot of mornings outside in the pool.

It is just so hot we can't be outside in the afternoon.

(The temperatures have been 100 degrees or more every single day!)

My sweet, silly girl pouring water on her head.

Then there is my little

doodlebug.

Look at those baby blues!

These two keep us hopping all week,

but they have also stolen our hearts.

And nap time is sooooo nice!!!

HaHaHa!

I am so looking forward to some cooler weather - and I'm 

hoping that will happen in about six weeks.  We should start to

have temperatures in the 80's in September.

There is a sure sign that cooler temperatures are not THAT

far away.

 Next Sunday we'll be looking at some football.

Okay, it's only the Hall of Fame game - but it's a beginning.

The following Thursday is our first Thursday Night Football

broadcast - and yes, it's just pre-season - but it IS football.

That also should mean cooler weather is on the way.

We can only hope, right??

Hope all is going well with you that read this.

Have a super week!

Hugs to all!!!!