Let's Go Fly A Kite!

Today we went to my grandparents' house for a bit; I want to have a little garden this summer, so my grandpa (gardener extraordinaire) gave me some tomato and strawberry plants, as well as some seeds for green beans. I'm so excited about this - homegrown tomatoes are so yummy! Hopefully I've inherited a little bit of a green thumb...

Rylee was very excited about Grandma and Grandpa's cat, Happy, as well as the cookie that Grandma gave her - she talked about them all day!

After we left their house, we met Katie and Ava and Josh at a park so the girls could play. They had fun on the swings and slides and such for a while, and then I got out Rylee's Elmo kite that her Grandma Mac sent for her a month or two ago...with the crazy weather we've had, this was the first chance that we've had to use it. It was a huge success! Well, at least from an entertainment standpoint...there wasn't enough wind to keep it up in the sky unless you were running with it. But Rylee and Ava didn't mind! Once I showed her how, Rylee started running with the kite...
she ran...
and ran...
and ran...

and had a jolly old time!

Ava liked the kite, too, but she wasn't as keen on the running part as Rylee was...

she just stood there with her arm in the air and kind of grumbled at the kite, willing it to go up...so we held her hand and ran with her.

Rylee and Ava actually did pretty well at taking turns and sharing...

there was minimal fussing!

On the way home, we stopped by (Quinn's) Aunt Annette's house to drop some things off and were pleasantly surprised that Ila and Emma were staying with their grandma for the weekend. They were working on some art projects, so Rylee jumped right on in.

So that was our fun, busy day. We've had a good week too. We've gotten Rylee to only use her bink when she's sleeping and in the car - I thought that this process was going to be a nightmare, but it's actually turned out to be easy! I think it will still be a little while before we try to make her sleep without her precious bink, but we're moving in the right direction...

Rylee is little miss personality...

she's always making silly faces! She also is getting very good at the alphabet and counting and makes us laugh every day. The other night, Quinn and I taught her to play hide and seek...she loves it, but doesn't really get the concept of keeping her cover! When she's hiding and you look for her and say "Is Rylee in the bathroom?" she yells "no!" or "yes!" to let you know where she is! Funny girl. She also has a new favorite movie this week - Monsters Inc.

Cailyn is growing, growing! I realized this week that she is almost 5 months old, which means that she is almost half way to her first birthday! What!?! I really don't know where time goes.

She has found her voice and frequently goes for 15 or 20 minute periods where she just squawks at the top of her lungs! She is also starting to recognize the people (and animal) around her - she smiles really big when she sees Rylee (especially first thing in the morning) and spends a lot of time staring at Mo and laughing at him.

This is her sporting her new "Baby Legs" that the Easter Bunny brought her - I love them because it makes it really easy to change her diaper!

And here she is showing off her drooling ability...I think she is teething.

Mo got some camera time this week when he started playing with Rylee's purple purse and got it wrapped around his body. He was running all over with it!

And Ava came over to play last night while Katie and Josh went out. Cousin time is always so much fun!

Rylee and Ava kept playing Peek-a-Boo while I was taking these pictures...their hands are up because they just uncovered their eyes!

And, of course, Rylee had to make silly faces for the camera...