Summer Fun 2010

It has been a crazy couple of months but we made it through the school year. Both girls are growing so quickly I can hardly believe it. Corinne is so active and just has such a zest for life. Lydia has been crawling for about three months now and is cruising on everything these days.

Corinne, Lydia, Kolby and Madison

Corinne likes to "play her game"-I think she learned this from watching the babysitters older son because he had not turned that thing on in years!

Lydia practicing for the Olympics one day

Lydia loving the grass

Both our girls love the outdoors-except for Corinne's new found fear of bugs! She must get that from her Dad becasue it is not from me. We have spent a lot of time at the park and in our own backyard this spring and early summer. We just have to watch Lydia because she will put anything in her mouth.

Crawling and laughing towards Mommy-she is a ham just like Corinne was and knows exactly what to do when the camera comes out.

We have made several trips to the zoo this Summer after not being there for a while. The zoo has a new Polar Bear exibit that is awesome. The girls love to see the bears swim. On the day below we got to see them swim a lot.

Lydia checking out the Polar Bears.

Corinne was so excited when she got so close.

The girls and I at the underwater observation area for the Polar Bears

Like I said we have been spending a lot of time outside and one of Corinne's new skills is to be able to sit on a big swing and pull to keep herself going. Pretty awesome for a two year old. She also can climb up almost anything at the playground. Lydia loves to swing too!

Corinne swinging on the big girl swing

Swinging and Grandma and Grandpa's backyard on Memorial Day

Corinne had fun in Dominic's new pool-of course she was not thrilled when I got our pool out and it did not have a slide like this one!


My sister took this picture and I love it!

Like I said Lydia is into everything and on this day she is showing us the pony piece that she has. When she knows she is not suppose to have something she shows it too you and then crawls away laughing. It is times like that when it is hard not to laugh!

Say cheese

Corinne finally got her first haircut and did very well with it. She loved that she got to choose what she got to sit in and what movie she wanted to watch.

Corinne flying a plane for her first haircut!

Corinne is now our little scooter girl. She loves to go up and down the sidewalk on this. I just think it is funny how far we have come from when we were kids. We would have never even dreamed of putting on a helmet to ride a bike let alone a scooter. Now I would be arrested if she was out front without a helmet.

Scooter Girl!

We have not had the pool out that much because we have been so busy but she did like it when we got it out. Of course about the time we got it all blown up and filed a huge storm blew in and we had to go inside!

On June 30th we went to have some family pictures taken at OU-L in Lancaster. Erin Riggs and I have know each other for a long time and she a photographer that specializes in Nature shots. Is it just a preview of some of the shots and I could not be more in love with them! She made the tutu's the girls are wearing and no questions asked Corinne insisted on wearing the hat even though it was 90 degrees at 10 in the morning.

If you can not see we included Zeus and Corinne is hugging him. She loves that dog so much!

Probably my favorite picture of Lydia ever!

Lydia is growing up so fast and she loves to eat! She is still a peanut but the only thing that we have given her that she would not eat was brocolli. She does not really want to be fed baby food anymore and would before to feed herself. So we have just been grinding up what we are having for dinner and she loves it. I love it too because then I know we have to fix a well balanced meal. Jeremy and I have really been trying to get back into shape and I have been taking a Zumba class a the Rec. Center at 6 a.m. on Friday mornings. It is early but I love it and I usually get a lot done of Fridays because I am very full of energy.

Lydia loving her food!

We celebrated the 4th of July in Lancaster on Saturday and Corinne was so excited at the parade. We went with my sister and Dominic, Tiffany, Todd, Jack and Elizabeth, Kasey and Tiffany's sister and her kids. The kids had a ball and they all loved the bands and all the candy as you can see below. Jeremy said while we were at the parade it is funny you tell your kids not to run in the street till it is a parade then you tell them to run out there and pick up candy from strangers. We stayed at my parents all day and the girls were very worn out. Of course Corinne did not nap and Lydia did not nap very well. Corinne is terrified of loud noise so I figure the fireworks were out. The 4th of July is my favorite holiday so Jeremy told me to go on over to the fireworks. I ened up standing in the front yard with my Mom and we could see them great (for those of you that don't know my parents live across the street from the fairgrounds so we have a front row seat every year). The girls feel asleep even with all of the loud noise. Maybe next year for them to watch!

Miss America

I could not be happier with these beautiful girls and a wonderful husband!

Lydia loved it too! She has no fear of loud noises of crowds!

We try and get this picture every year but Lydia would not sit still!

Since the 4th of July celebration was on the 3rd we were free to do what we wanted Sunday so we decided to go to the zoo. It was a hot day but not very crowded so it was nice. Jeremy has not been able to go with us to the zoo for a while so it was a really nice day. Corinne has never been able to ride on the Merry-Go-Round so it was both girls first time on this day. She was a little shared and would not get up on a horse but she said next time she is going to. The only problem is everyday she is asking if we can go to the zoo to ride the Merry-G0-Round! Since it was pretty hot most of the animals were not doing much including the Polar Bears so Jeremy did not get to see them swim. However when we went to the underwater observation area that was another Polar bear down there. Corinne gave the moving one a high five and even took a picture with him which is a big step for her.

Lydia loved it, Corinne was a little nervous. I rode on the horse beside the bench so Corinne would see it was okay.

A little nervous at first but then she loved him!

4th of July Outfit-forgot to take the picture before the zoo so they are a little messy!

Corinne is kind of a hot mess but still cute!

Tried to get them to sit together but they were not having it!

Daddy was also off for most of the day on Monday so we just hung out around the house and took it easy. It was a very nice holiday weekend for all of us!

Lydia walking with a chair!

HAPPY SPRING!!!

Here are some random Spring time pictures that I started uploading and never got to finish. I am posting these and then working on posting at least once a week again!


Columbus Zoo

Corinne swinging on the glider

Playing in her sand box

Taking in the fresh air in the swing

Thank goodness we finally got rid of that pacifier!

Lydia not liking her first taste of food so much..that has changed a lot now!

See it already changed

She got really big really fast!

The girlls and their Grandma and Pappy

First time in the bouncer but we did not use it very much

So cute!

Snowy Days and Busy Days

Well here we go again. It has been another busy three months of milestones and no time or energy to blog. It has been a rough start to the year with sickness and tons of snow. We started the year cheering on our Buckeyes and Mountaineers in there bowl games at Grandma and Grandpa Hunt's


Let's Go!

Corinne and Dominic walking around with a bag on there head (they did this for about a half an hour and thought it was so funny

Lydia and Corinne are growing so fast and I am thrilled at how much they already like to play with each other already. Although Corinne is really learning to share what were once only her toys. Lydia is on the move now and I think we may be in trouble with her. Corinne never really put things in her mouth like most babies do so we did not have to be extra careful about things on the floor but Lydia puts everything in her mouth. This is especially hard with all of Corinne's little pony pieces laying around. Lydia is rolling all over the room now to get what she wants and we have seen her pushing up and moving her legs so crawling is not far off either. She is able to sick up for short periods of time and is overall just very happy! She has a giggle that makes everyone giggle and is babbling all the time.

Corinne has been very busy too. She is potty trained now and is doing very well with it. We had some issues with number #2 at first but this is getting much better. I really think that she was just ready and went with it. She can even be trusted when we go to my parents to not have anything on. We are still working on the nap and night time thing but she is still so young I will take he finally sleeping through the night over being dry all night. Corinne just finished her second class of gymnastics and although I know she liked it I think the novality had started to wear off. We will be taking swim lessons again in a few weeks so that should be fun because we have not been in the water for some time.

Jeremy and I are hanging in there too although it has been a long winter. We are hoping to get outside soon and start enjoying our long walks again! We are both striving to lose some baby weight and have a fun and active summer a few pounds lighter. I have included some different pictures from the last couple of months just to summarize everything we have been doing.

The spring looks to be a busy time for us. We will be going to Chicago for my cousins wedding in April. We also will finally have Lydia baptized on April 18th (we had to become members of our new parish before we could baptize her and we found out just a few days too late that they do not do baptisms during lent so that is why we have to wait until April) but we love our new parish so it is well worth it! I hope to help out in the church nursery and Jeremy really wants to get involved with the nights of Columbus. We plan to start Lydia on cereal next week as she will be six months old next Sunday which is just so hard to believe. I think she will be crawling in a month or so and that will add a whole new element to life! I promise to update this more often! I did it so much when Corinne was so small and it helped keep track of milestones so I have to get better at sitting down and doing it.

Lydia enjoying looking at herself during tummy time (although she prefers to be on her tummy over her back)

Laughing at her blanky bear

Corinne and Jack jammin out!

Corinne the fashion plate as usual (thanks Tiffany and Todd)

Hugs! Jack and Corinne buddies that love to play together!

My nephew Dominic enjoying one of Grandma's cooks (his word for cookie)

Lydia exploring the Exersauer for the first time a couple of weeks ago

We caught Corinne rediscovering the Exersauer later that day (good thing she is little)

Mommy and Corinne playing in the second round of snow. It was up to Corinne's knees and little did we know there was more to come. We were out there for an hour and she still had a fit when we had to come in.

She was laughing so hard everytime she fell down

Lydia trying out the highchair and a sippy cup

A new favorite picture of Corinne (she looks like such a big girl!)