Half Way There!!!!

Can you BELIEVE that I forgot to celebrate our half way to one year mark!?  When I was prepping for Kalina I thought about buying those cute little month circles for onesies. Wouldn't it be so cute to take a photo each month marking her progress and the changes to 1 year? Then I chuckled to myself and was like, I have three kids, when would I find time to put a sticker on her onesie and take a picture? I feel like this falls into that category. Too many kids, not enough time for the little things.

But that doesn't change the fact that we are indeed there and we couldn't be happier with Selene's health and life as we know it.  Not that anyone really cares (other than maybe my Aunt Merlann) but I'll give highlights of our past few weeks!

Ainsley started Kindergarten and is loving it. We are still working out the kinks of afternoon school and getting everyone to the bus stop on time. I'm having flashbacks of way too many runs for the bus when I was little, but we haven't missed it yet. Though Selene is pretty determined to make us miss it because she needs her backpack filled with toys every time we go.

No tears from anyone!

After her first day.

Sweetness.

Working on a pie for Daddy's birthday before heading to the cabin.

We also took our trip to the cabin and had a great time. It went a bit faster than normal since we left Sunday late afternoon instead on Monday, but we had fun. And are eager to take Selene next year. We spent Saturday afternoon at my Dad's friend's house in his lovely pool and Ainsley went from timid water bug to little mermaid. She wouldn't get out of the pool for 4 hours. It made me realize that she'd be swimming laps if we had her in the pool all summer. Needless to say a pool membership is on our list for next summer (if you know me well, you'll wonder what's gotten into me because I hate sun and I hate chlorine and wet towels!)

At the pond.

At the rifle range with ear plugs in!

Getting a lesson on floating

The local police chief brought over automatic rifles, needless to say I refused to shoot any of them. 

A dream come true! Amy saddled up Snickers for Ainsley to take a trail ride on!

Me and Bam, he was not a fan of the heat.

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

I know I complained about this before but we had Selene's bone health appointment. We had to get there at 9am which meant fighting traffic. And by the time I got my Starbucks coffee (darn drive thru line was 7 deep but I wasn't skipping it) we were about 10 minutes late. They are not terribly busy and we were taken back within a minute. The appointment was as unnecessary as I had expected. She looked at her vitamin D levels which were a little low (antibiotics and major meds I'm great with, but I'm spotty with the vitamin D now that it's the only thing she gets). She checked her over and it was done. Let's talk about how miffed Selene was when she asked Dr. M to check Zibo and the doctor just stared at her. We have been spoiled with the lovely Miss Ellen and Dr. Olson who always make sure Zibo is in tiptop shape. I honestly don't want to go back in 6 months for what she said will be our last appointment. Do the x-rays, draw the Vitamin D levels and call me if there's an issue.

Every nurse can't believe how cooperative she is!

Life continued to be filled with fun when we celebrated Nana Anita's first Sunday as the head pastor at Lenape Valley Presbyterian. A beautiful service and picnic welcomed her and we were thrilled to be there as a whole family! I don't think we will continue to take Selene to church especially with viral season upon us, but it was great to get her there. She was so well behaved! And Ainsley loved Sunday school. So we will definitely have to visit occasionally.

My Mom came to visit this past week and it was amazing. To have someone around to help with meeting the needs of all of these kids is such a blessing. We miss her when she leaves!

Nana Robin found some pretty dresses at a consignment shop.

So fancy

Puddles

Dan and I had a date in Old City while Nana took care of the girls

Almost Pope time!

And, because Selene doesn't go to the doctor enough, she had her first walk in clinic visit.  Ainsley has had this brilliant idea to take our pop up tunnel and try to make it be a slide. I've warned her this is not a good idea, and more likely a very dangerous idea. While I was making dinner they decided to once again try this feat. And it ended with Selene falling and smashing her elbow. We waited until Sunday morning to take her, we had hoped it would stop hurting. They confirmed it wasn't broken but there is fluid which will hopefully subside on it's own. Girl can't catch a break!