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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Grandpa Julio

Grandpa Julio came out to Florida to meet his newest granddaughter and to spend time with us. It was a fun visit!




Auntie Mariposa did this! Luckily, she thought it was hilarious!

Cool pic taken at sunset

A fire in the firepit we got for our wedding! Four years later, we finally inauguarated the thing!

Grandpa and Auntie hanging out


Grandpa and his girls!

This is a really great picture of Juan and Scarlett in the river. If you click on it you can see them.

Scarlett trying her hand at the bike pump

Grandpa on the bike ride!

Family from Florida!

Auntie Mariposa and Uncle Sandro came out to visit. While they were here, Noni came by to see everyone!

Auntie Mariposa

Noni

Uncle Sandro

Sundays

Sundays are the best days to get pictures of our family in our finery!



So, so, so smiley all the time!



I just love these two pictures of the girls. Best friends, indeed!


Mommy and girls

Daddy and girls (Daddy was the only one not finished getting ready!!)

Growing every day!

Well... it's the middle of September now, so summer's over and we are back to work and back to a normal, vacation-free existence. (I know, shucks!!) Juan went back to work a few weeks ago, and I was actually back in the middle of August. My job is really easy this year, a wonderful class with great students. I'm only working two days a week (for about four hours a time) which is perfect because I get to spend the rest of the time home with the girls. We've had no nursing or attachment issues from Savannah while I've been gone, too, which is great because I really worried about that.

Scarlett and Savannah are just two wonderful girls! Scarlett is speaking in long, full sentences now. So many that sometimes I get taken aback. I don't remember teaching her words that suddenly she'll have. On Friday she said, "Mommy, where is Daddy?" then she crinkled her nose and said, "No. Mommy, where are daddy?" So she has her "to be" verb pretty mixed up but I can't believe she can even recognize the difference between the forms! I guess the daughter of two english teachers has no choice but to be verbal. She's also starting to express her emotions-- "I'm really, really, really happy," she'll say. (Lots of "Reallys". All the time! For everything! Really!!) Or, "I'm really really mad!" I'm glad that she can recognize her moods and put words to them, hopefully the ability to express herself will curb some of her (ahem) natural tendency to act out physically. ("lovetaps" are Scarlett's specialty.) She, of course, still loves her sister to pieces. "I like her!" Scarlett will scream enthusiastically when I walk into the room with Savannah. She also gets very upset when the baby has to go down for a nap. "Wake baby up!"

Savannah is growing and changing so much. Still just as sweet as you could imagine. She's smiley, patient and talkative. I kept waiting for her fuss to kick in, but it never has. She just has a mellow, sweet personality. She can play in her exersaucer forever! She sits up really well now and eats rice cereal well. Tomorrow she's turning six months (aaaaawwww, it's gone by so fast!!) so we will start her on "solids." Only the green stuff for awhile. I went too fast on the fruits for Scarlett, and now she has a no-green policy. I think she'll army crawl soon too. She kicks her feet on the floor in the proper position, there's just no moving forward yet.

Here are some pictures of our lives this past August:


Hanging out in the rocker!


So excited to be in her car seat! I wish it was always like this!


Scarlett loves to hang out in her room and read her books! And we love it when she does!

Sweet Savs before she could sit up all the way. No more tripod for her now!

She is very excited about her rice cereal!

Monday, August 10, 2009

Hawaii (Maui week)

After Ko'Olina on Oahu we moved on to Kaanapali on Maui...



Ahh!! Marriott's Maui Ocean Club... our home away from home!





Every night on Kaanapali Beach has an amazing sunset!





Dinner in Lahaina




Scarlett had fun exploring the island... (Savannah was there too! She just didn't get to hike and climb as much!)

Hawaii (Oahu week)

Well, we took our annual trip to Hawaii! This time we went for two weeks (we squeezed into a studio for one of those weeks!) and it was fabulous! Hawaii is such a great place to go if you have little kids-- awesome pools and lots of family friendly entertainment. Scarlett had a great time and Savannah was just happy to be surrounded by her family at all times!


On the plane, ready to go! The plane ride was pretty easy. Savannah slept for a lot of it and Scarlett had her Dora and Kai-Lan DVD's to keep her entertained! This was Scarlett's seventh plane ride... I didn't go anywhere on a plane until I was nine and she's not even three!

On the shuttle bus to the rental car agency... happy to finally be in hawaii, even if it's on a shuttle bus!

What do you do as soon as you get into your hotel?? Head to the pool/beach!

One of the cool beach lagoons that front the resort we stayed at


Hiking the Manoa Falls trail... one of the most beautiful hikes I've ever been on! Juan had Scarlett on his shoulders, Savannah bjorned on his chest. we didn't quite make it to the falls because it started to rain... big big big buckets of rain. We had no rain gear and tried to run the mile or so back to the car, Juan protecting Savannah's head while Scarlett squealed in absolute glee.







We spent most of our days being lazy at the pool and beach... we kept Savannah kind of wrapped up but she didn't seem to mind!

We met up with maja and Susan while we were there...



And, of course, lots of hanging out in the room!


Isn't my baby just adorable?



On our last night we went to Waikiki to enjoy the views and have dinner.