Pool, Frogs, & Cupcakes

The weeks are just flying by this summer!! We continue to enjoy the outside, even on the rainy days. A few weeks ago we had a huge thunderstorm with hail. We opened the door and picked up a piece of hail, larger than a quarter, and gave it to Carys. That wasn't good enough. She ended up standing on our front porch getting struck by the hail and drenched by the rain coming sideways. She loved it!!

On the weekends the three of us have been spending time at Grandpa and Grandma Davis' pool. Carys loves the pool. She has learned to only enter and exit the pool at the ladder, despite what she sees her cousins do. She's doing the doggy paddle, kicking her feet, putting her face in the water to blow bubbles and laying back on our hands to float. We put a small blow up pool in our back yard that she loves just as much as the "big pool". Our neighbors that have two little girls just put up a little pool and invited Carys over for a swim. The girls were having a blast splashing each other. We have been doing a lot with the Drew family and really enjoying ourselves. Their daughters are Lana and Chloe. Carys and the Drew girls could pass for triplets as they are all the same size with light hair. Carys asks everyday to go play with them and their mom says they do the same.

On one Sunday Tim and Carys went out to the neighbors woods to look for frogs. They were able to find some but unable to catch them. Carys would call "here froggie froggie, here". Tim was saying how excited she got when they saw one. Well, Carys and I were outside playing on her playground and saw a tiny frog in the grass. We caught the frog and placed it in a bucket with a little water. Carys pulled some grass and put some small rocks in the bucket too. She would reach right in and pick up the little frog and just look at it. She called it the baby frog. When it was time for her nap she gave the bucket a hug and blew the frog a kiss after telling it to "go to sleep". When she woke up from her nap we went out to check on the frog...it was asleep for good. She had no idea and I just told her it jumped out of the bucket to go find its mommy and daddy. She was fine with that explanation. When Tim got home she told him all about her little adventure with the frog.

This past Saturday we were planning on going to Hidden Lake Gardens for the Children's Garden Day but were rained out. What a better activity to do on a rainy day than baking. We made cupcakes and my favorite butter cream frosting. We broke our my cake decorating bags with tips, sprinkles and candies. Carys could hardly decorate more than one because she just wanted to eat the frosting and candies...that's my girl!!

Now, baby update. I will be 27 weeks on Friday. Carys was born at 27 weeks. We are all praying that this little girl decides not to follow in her big sisters footsteps. My every other week doctor's visits and ultrasounds are a bit wearing...we have to drive the 50 minutes to either U of M hospital or to our OB. Carys continues to love going to hear or see "baby sister". This week she decided she would carry around the picture frame that holds the baby's first ultrasound photo (the size of a bean). Here is a photo of my belly at 25 weeks.