Things have been pretty hectic here recently so unfortunately I have been slacking with updating the blog.

Lily is growing up way to quickly for me.  All of her language is just amazing.  We can now carry on conversations where each of us will take about 4 turns.  Very rarely does she not use sentences.  It is great to see her personality come out even more.  She is quite the little negotiator.  She definitely does not get everything she wants, but there are times when she has made a good point so I have given in.

She is also quite social.  Every morning she asks me who we are going to see or play with that day.  Whenever we go on a walk at least one or two little kids in the neighborhood have to yell hello to Lily.  We have been hanging out with the neighbor and her kids and the kids she babysits.  She babysits a little girl a few months older than Lily and she has a son that is a few months younger than Lily.  She also has a 4 year old that Lily just adores and babysits a little boy that is just a few days older than Evie.  It is great to have friends close by for the girls to play with and to give me some adult conversation as well.

Evie has had a rough couple weeks.  We started her on solids.  Evidently the solids I decided to start on her coupled with her body changing the way it digests food, made her constipated.  She did enjoy the prune juice that Sean had to give her a couple times and that definitely seemed to work.  For the most part it didn't seem to bother her, she is such an easy going baby.  We slowed down on solids though to give her body a chance to regulate itself and have just recently started giving them to her again.

Last week I was working a lot so the girls were either with my mom or the babysitter a lot.  Evie is doing well with her stranger anxiety, but she still doesn't like to drink out of a bottle all that much.  There were a few days where she didn't drink much at all and then when I got home she wanted me to nurse her almost all night long.  That made me super tired the next day at work and made my time away from the girls that much harder.

Sean and I got to go see fireworks for the 4th of July!  We have never seen them together and it has always been something I wanted to do.  The girls are definitely too young, plus they go to bed hours before the fireworks start, that I didn't think we were going to get to go until they got much older.  This year though, my parents weren't doing anything so we left the girls there and Sean and I got an evening with some friends without kiddos.  Of course while we were waiting for the fireworks to start huge storm clouds started rolling in.  We decided to head back to the car.  We figured we would just watch whatever we could see from there and then be able to be in the car in case the storm came.  This ended up being an amazing idea because our car was evidently at a perfect viewing area!  Then we didn't have to walk to the car and wait forever to get out of the parking lot.  I can't wait for the years to come when we get to go as a family.  I just know they both will love them.