Up north

Last Thursday we took the girls for their first trip up north to Caporale's cottage. The patterson's joined us for our annual vacation together. The girls all had a great time playing on the beach, making s'mores at the campfire, rolling down the hill at the harbor and playing together. It was a nice, relaxing long weekend that we all enjoyed!














































































































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Location:Harrisville, mi

swimming update

Mia was promoted to Level 1 swimming last week. On Monday she moved up to the big pool. She is really enjoying it and learning to float and kick.

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summer fun

Mia painting her father's day gift - a picture frame with a photo of both girls for Daddy's office.

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teeth

Annie's molars have all broken through within the last few weeks. First it was her bottom right and top right...then her top left and now her bottom left. Bring on the food!

ballet, tap, swimming and biking!

Mia has been keeping busy this summer. Today was her last ballet/tap class for her first session and so the kiddos put on a mini recital for the parents. It was SUPER cute. Daddy left work early and surprised Mia by coming..and bringing her flowers! They did a little ballet dance, tap dance then a free style dance to "Dance Anyway You Want To" which was Mia's favorite! We video taped all but will upload a little bit of her tap.

She also started her swim lessons this week and loves them. They are for the next two weeks and I am hoping she will really learn some skills. So far they are working on kicking, scooping the water, jumping in and moving around the pool.

Finally, Mia has mastered pedaling her tricycle this week. We went around the block a few times, just a few days ago she could only pedal barely past our house....now she is pedaling fast. Pretty soon she will be riding her big girl bike.

Uncle Brian

Congrats to Uncle Brian for earning his Bachelor degree (double major in English and Poly Sci) from DePaul this weekend! So that makes him the third DePaul Alum in our family (My mom - bachelors, me - Masters of Ed). We had fun celebrating. Saturday, Daddy and the girls and I had a nice long walk, went to the library and park then home for an early dinner. Daddy put Annie to bed and had a special indoor campout with Mia in her room. Daddy stayed home with the girls, we would have had our neighbor watch her but since the graduation party was early, we thought it better to have daddy stay home with the girls. I went to the city to celebrate Brian's graduation with my family. We had a live band, private bowling and pool table room and it was so much fun! Sunday, Daddy had to take his student from work to a Sox game so the girls and I met Uncle Brian, grandma and papo for brunch then went to Lincoln Park zoo. I took the girls to Cummings park, a park I used to play at when I was a kiddo, across from the zoo then we picked daddy up from the ballpark and headed home. It was a busy but fun weekend.

Annie turned 13 months last week. She is amazing. I checked Mia's milestones and stuff at the same age and they are pretty much on target with each other. Annie has been 'helping' by picking up the dogs bowls, she likes to push in the chairs after we are finished eating and she likes to brush my hair. Tooooo cute!

fun weekend

Shedd last week



Justin Roberts concert



Pool time!






Friday Dad and I had a date night - so grandma came to watch the girls and sleep over. We went to the sox v. tigers game with two of daddy's co-workers and their wives. Very nice night out.

Saturday we headed downtown for the Lit Fest in Printers Row ( a great fest that showcases authors and books from different publishers in the area) downtown and to see Justin Roberts in concert. The fest had great activities for kids and a host of concerts. It was SUPER hot but the girls had fun (Annie actually napped the entire show but Mia had a blast). We walked around a bit but because of the heat, headed to lunch at Potbelly's to cool off (and ended up meeting Justin Robert's band, they were eating lunch too next to us). We said bye to grandma then took the train home. We went to the pool in the afternoon but only got to swim for 20 minutes because a HUGE storm came and we had to hurry home. Sunday we relaxed, did some shopping at the mall then headed back to the pool. We came home and had a BBQ, Rocco came over to play for a bit while the 'daddies' grilled out. It was a nice, relaxing weekend.