Payton's Squeal

Payton is so verbal, but since the rest of her family is too, she decided to find a signature sound to get all of our attention. And it works. She squeals like this a lot, of course, not when the camera is around. I just happened to get lucky the other day and catch it on tape.

The Farm!

The Princes introduced us the the Underwood Farm, which happened to be really close to where we live. Since our first play date with Fallon & Fletch, we've tried to make it out to "the FAHM!" as often as the weather permits.

Happy Birthday, Eliza

Our sweet cousin, Eliza, just turned three, and invited us up to Santa Barbara to celebrate as fairy princesses!

Payton was the tiniest fairy at the party!

Nola sure did love seeing her cousin "EEyiZAH"

Green Eggs and Jam

We celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday last Tuesday, and while we didn't have any ham on hand to make a suitable breakfast, we improvised in a way that we're sure Dr. Seuss would approve.

Green Eggs and Jam?

We do like them, Sam I am!

FIRE!

We've joined the local Moms Club, so that the Akl ladies have a chance to get socialized... as we don't really get out too much, just check our previous blogpost if you don't believe me.

Once a month, the club takes their little ones on a field trip, and this month's happened to be the Firestation. Never mind the fact that almost all of our kids are too young to even know what a fire is, the field trip was lots of fun (albeit horrifyingly scary at times --

again, we do need to get out more often).

Nola, who found the whole field trip to be frighteningly overwhelming was thoroughly delighted with it by the time we got back into the car.

Tea L C

Our afternoons have been made less frazzle-y lately by introducing tea-time.

I get to nurse Payton, without being harassed for the other "boo-boo"

(yes, for those of you who don't know, we are tandem nursing --

which is another blog for another day),

and Nola gets to add several spoonfuls of sugar to her Sleepy Time and milk.

We thoroughly enjoy the break in the day,

especially since Nonnie made us big fancy hats to wear while we have our tea.

What an Easy Baby!

I have a feeling that just writing that Payton's an "easy baby" is going to jinx us, but I felt it was worthy of sharing. She's so mellow, and I have to say that Nola is doing a great job handling the transition from being our one-and-only to being "Big Sissy." However, I do feel that most of my time is spent figuring out creative new ways to keep Payton injury free from Nola's overzealous affection for her "Little Sissy," but it has been a true joy seeing how our newest family member has added so much love to our lives.