Summer Loving

It's been a couple weeks since I have last updated this, partly because it hard to find time to blog in the summer and partly because our computer is acting up and it takes forever to upload photos. But I know this summer is going so fast and I want to remember all the fun (and not so much fun) we have been having.

As I mentioned before, we joined a new pool and tennis club this summer and we are loving it. We always just went to the Y pools before and they were fine but we are really enjoying the new pool. If we aren't in camp, we are usually at the pool most days. Ella is becoming such a fish and loves it and Maddie loves eating snacks at the pool, oh well!

 One of E's best buddies from preschool, Caroline turned 5 in June and had a huge Frozen bash for all the little girls. It was very elaborate and the girls got their make up and nails done by Elsa and then enjoyed making Olaf ice cream sundaes.

 Manicures and ice cream, this girl was in heaven!

 We had a great Father's Day celebrating Mike. After making him pancakes for breakfast, we went to the pool in the morning and got there early and practically had it to ourselves. 

These two girls sure do love their Daddy

 Ella started off diving off the blocks and loved it so much..

 this happened! No one was more surprised than me and Mike. This is the child who wouldn't go anywhere without her floatie last summer and barely would even jump with that and is now going off the diving board.

 She is doing so great and I love that she has gained so much confidence from her swimming this summer. We owe it all to our amazing instructor!

 All that swimming makes for two tired girls (They aren't really asleep here, just taking a rest but I do love that after swimming, they come home and take great naps!)

 Remember when I mentioned not so fun times earlier, yup, this is it. We were all in for potty training Maddie a couple weekends ago. We stayed home, did the same technique that we did for Ella and thought it would work like a charm. Well, let me tell you, it did not. It is funny how you can have two children of the same sex and they can be SO different. Ella was basically potty trained in 1-2 days and was fine. We tried for almost 5-6 days with Maddie and each day got a little worse, not better. I will spare you all the details but let's just say, she was not ready and I almost lost my mind several times that week so it is back to pull ups and we will try again later when maybe she is more ready to give it a whirl. Oh sweet child how you test me sometimes.

 After literally being house bound for about a week with potty training failure, I told Ella, we could have some special time together since she was such a trooper about the whole thing. No surprise that she picked painting pottery so we went and did that. She picked the most elaborate butterfly to paint but she did great. Check out the concentration on her face!

 Finally, MG's hair was getting rather mullet like so I knew it was time for her second haircut. I got it cut in a little bob for the summer and it looks super cute. Her hair is rather thick so she looks adorable with a short do and E's is much more thin so she needs a longer do. Again, such different children in every sense, even their hair.

Hope to be back to blog again soon about our July 4th weekend and then we are off to the beach for a couple days with Mike's family. This summer sure is flying by!