Daddy's Away

And Logan and I are definitely taking time to play! Mike is out of town for a wedding this weekend leaving Logan and I to have some girl time. It's really fun to be on our own with her at this age because she's so interactive and knows what she wants to do and we can really enjoy each other. This morning we headed off to Logan's new favorite summer hangout--the pool!

Here's my lame-o attempt at a self portrait for Mike (it's really hard when you have a squirmy toddler):

As soon as I put her in her suit this morning she was sitting by the door:

I couldn't get any pool pictures this morning, as I was playing in it with her myself but when we switched to the splash park I plopped right down in front of Logan and her (seemingly) favorite fountain and snapped away. I got some really fun shots and was able to edit them while she napped (since I don't have the added baby today).

I love how all of the colors are captured in this next one. I think it's such a precious shot that shows how glorious creation is.

She loves to try and catch the water in her mouth.

So serious.

I can't get over how fast time is going. I wish I could freeze moments like this and keep her little for a while longer. People tell you to enjoy every second, and I don't know how I can possibly enjoy them more.

After we splashed around for a couple of hours we had a little lunch date. It's nice to take her out and be able to have a sweet conversation with her, now. (You can really see how primp and proper she is in the way that she handles her juice boxes--she's a girl through and through)

I don't know if you can tell in the above picture, but her hair is lightening significantly from being out in the sun a little more this summer. She's going to be a total toe head by July! The other thing that's really surprised Mike and I is that she doesn't burn nearly as easily as we thought she would. Though she is slathered with sunscreen every hour or so, she still is starting to get a nice tan tint. Maybe she got a little bit of those Cuban genes, after all.

We came home and watched SuperWhy before nap.

Uncle John and Aunt Lindsey are coming tonight to keep us company for the weekend!

Splish Splash!

We were supposed to head to the pool this week with our playgroup. Unfortunately, a few things have happened and our plans are up in the air for a little while. I was a little disappointed at the prospect of not hitting the pool this week because we'd been so looking forward to it so I had Logan ask her daddy if he wanted to come. I'm so glad we DID go, because she had an absolute BLAST and is going on hour 3 of her nap right now (usually she's done after an hour and a half).

All ready for the pool in her sweet little cover-up courtesy of the Dodson girls' former closet.

Easing into the water:

She was a little cautious at first (notice how her hair will gradually get wetter in the pictures as she eventually learned that dunking her head was fun).

"Mama, 'mon!"

"EYE (hi) MOMMY!"

Splash, splash, splash.

A tiny bit excited.

Picture above is after she dunked her head underwater.

She was such a little water baby.

Several older boys came over and tried to splash her, I think it's because they thought she was some helpless little girl...don't know why they failed to notice her father with her. She didn't need Mike because she just splashed them right back and they eventually left her alone. What fun is bullying when the person you're trying to bully fights even (and is a girl....and is at least 3 years younger. yeah.)?

We finally dragged her out of the pool and headed to the splash park. This place is my new best friend.

She spent a good hour running from spout to spout.

We don't have to buy swim diapers because our cloth diapers work even better! No bulk, and they repel the wetness so when I took it off of her, it was as if she only had a wet diaper.

I think she looks like such a big girl in the next picture. Before we know it she'll be asking to go to the pool with her girlfriends in highschool. Sigh.

And if you made it this far, here's a couple videos of L at the splash park:

Happy Birthday Noah!

Logan's friend Noah turned 1 this week and today had his birthday party in the park!

Noah is in our playgroup and Logan has a lot of fun with him. We try to get together at least once a week. We all started seminary within a semester of each other so we should be here about the same length of time so they'll be able to grow up together a bit.

Logan loved her piece of chocolate cupcake:

And she was thrilled to wear this birthday hat (ha!):

It was quite a hot day, today, though, so we noticed that while Logan wanted to run around she didn't need to be chased quite as much because she was too hot to get too far.

Logan and Kate pretty much set up camp right around the cooler and took turns diving their hands into it to keep themselves cool:

We've tried watermelon before and Logan didn't really seem to enjoy the texture but she loved it today!

When we got home we ran a cool bath and let Logan splash around in it:

We're headed to the pool sometime this week with the playgroup and after todays little splash fest, I think it's safe to say that she'll have a lot of fun!

Even Fashionable In Her Diapers

Another thing that I LOVE about cloth diapers is the nice variety of prints/colors that you can slap on your little one's bottom. It's no secret that I enjoy a good animal print on Logan (or anywhere, really), so when I saw these on ebay I was SO excited! I was even more excited when I got them each for under $2 (they ship from China--hence the steep discount).

(sorry for the poor quality of the next couple of pictures)

As you can tell, we've been stripping L down to her diaper in the afternoons to make it through the really hot hours (when it hits the 90's) without the air on and it's just that much more fun that she's wearing fashionable diapers while she runs around!