Booglybly

Can you think of anything more precious than a small child's voice?
Right now Sullivan melts us daily with her darling utterances as she pieces together language. Our favorite word of hers at the moment is the title of this post, "booglybly", aka "butterfly". Here are a few other favorite words/phrases and a recent video of her "singing".

Poca mas > (Spanish for "un poco mas" = a little bit more) She loves to ask for "poca mas" on just about everything these days...

Happy Burrday> A favorite saying these days...

Reedy book! > How can we ever refuse this request!

Baby Luga > "Baby Baluga"= lullaby time

Where go go? > "Where did it go?

Sully do it, kay? > Her request for independence, with a careful "ok?" at the end.

Uh oh, mommy! Careful! Otro coche> Sullivan telling me to be careful while driving as there is "another car".

Baby Shower

Many thanks to all my dear friends here in Greenville who were gracious in participating in a second baby shower dinner last Monday night for me and Shane Foret! (Shane and I are due the same week with our second baby girls!) A special thank you to Beth Hollenbeck who organized, planned and executed the whole event! Thank you, thank you! It was a very special dinner at PF Changs where the girls gave us a lovely meal, a delicious cake and a generous gift card to BabiesRus. We are so lucky to be surrounded by such great friends. Thank you, girls!

Unexpected visitors

Over the last two weeks, we have had 3 very welcome, very unexpected guests: Honey (Lee's Mom), Gigi (my Mom) and Baby Bob the pint-sized Orangutang. Let me explain...

Firstly, Honey decided to come visit us and help with baby preparations, cleaning and organizing and to get some good snuggle-time with Sullivan. And man did she bring her energy! I was enthralled with her "can do" attitude and vigor at attacking major projects at our house like replacing our microwave (that had a broken door handle and required pliers to open...) and cleaning out our garage. Honey single-handedly moved and organized tons of firewood, debri, lawn equipment, outdoor gear and toys all after a long day of keeping up with a busy two year-old. Amazing! After she left, we felt as though we had a new house in many ways! Thank you, Honey, for such a wonderful visit!

Secondly, my Mama decided spur of the moment to come up the next week as well! From cleaning and mopping all of our floors, doing our laundry, caring for Sullivan, "sponsoring" us in many new baby purchases and sending us out on a date night, Gigi was truly a gift to us! Wow. We had many good times last week with her...playing at the fountain downtown, crawling through tunnels at the McDonald's playplace (yes! She really got in there with Sull!), relishing in her gift of our "new" vintage Fisher Price dollhouse and playing outside in the baby pool. Such a great time!

And finally, I took Sullivan to our lovely little zoo here in town this past Monday and it seemed as though the darling of the place, Baby Bob the Orangutang, had been waiting just for her to arrive and visit him! I kid you not, he came right up to her at the window and began jumping up to reach her as if to give her a hug and communicate with her. I was thrilled to have my camera on hand as of course, I felt that I was witnessing something worthy of National Geographic. :)

Here are a few of the highlights of my photos from these memorable unexpected visits.
All my best to you!