GREAT weather!

AMAZING weather here over the weekend. It's been in the 70's with cool mornings and amazing afternoons. I sure hope this lasts but as I type this I should know better than to think this is here to stay. I think it's going to get warmer as the week goes on. We enjoyed the nice weather while it was here though. Yesterday we taught Stroller Strides and Reese even got to wear a sweatshirt (for the first few minutes of class), then we headed to a friend's birthday party and came back home and played outside.
Today we had lots of play time outside both after we woke up and it was in the 60's and this afternoon when the breeze was blowing and it felt like fall. To die for weather. I wouldn't mind it even getting a bit more fall like.
In case you all didn't know, Chewie's been riding on the sick train for the last few weeks. We're still waiting on some blood work and for her to eat something besides cottage cheese but she's getting a little of her pep back. It's been a rough two weeks, daily trips to the vet and me cleaning some sort of bodily dog fluid on a daily basis. We're hoping that she's on her way to healthy times.
When you ask Reese to smile she does this nose scrunch and giggles.

Chewie hangs out tied to the tree and we color on the sidewalk. It works out nicely.

You know when you look at all your OLD (like OLD as in your great-grandparents) pictures and they are all in sepia and everyone looks so serious...here is Chewie and Reese's early 1900's serious pose.

I can't tell you how much this kiddo LOVES her dog Chewie. When Chewie came home from her extended stay at the vet (sick and for boarding) Reese told her "Chewie I'm so happy to see you" (FYI this shirt goes with some super cute stretch pants which she wore to Church and looked so stinkin' cute...however we wore shorts to play outside since it was SUCH a nice day)

Cleaning up the chalk...we've been doing this and blowing bubbles (still using the ones from Easter...thanks Judson's) on a daily basis...I hope it stays this enjoyable for a LONG time.

Funny story...today in the check-out line of Sam's Reese got my cell phone and said "Hi Karlie." (My Pop-pop's name is Karl, however and my Nana calls him Karlie, and sometimes we do too) So of course I started cracking up because it was so funny. Ryan turns to me and says "Does she even know who Karlie is" and as quickly as he says that to me she shouts out "Pop-Pop" and knew exactly who she was talking about. She then had a conversation with herself, pretending to talk to Nana and Karlie about the clothes she was wearing. Hilarious. Most days, if she can get the phone off the counter, she pretend calls everyone she knows and has entire conversations with them...and her new thing, when she talks to people for real, she says "wanna talk to Chewie" and walks the phone over to the dog. Just cracks me up.