New Windows

This week we're having new windows installed in the living room, kitchen, 3 of the bedrooms and one of the bathrooms. It's a total of 6 windows (counting the massive living room window as 1). None of the living room windows opened. The bedrooms and bathroom windows had all at one time been able to open, but were since painted shut. The kitchen windows opened, but they swung out and had no screens. We think most of these were all the original windows from 1960.

Here are the old living room windows:

Here are the new living room windows:

New kitchen window:
I'm looking forward to seeing if there is any savings on our gas bill this winter. We'll also qualify for the tax credit of 30% of the window cost!

11 week dr appt

Brooke had her 2 month doctor appointment (a few weeks late) today. She is:
12 lbs 14 oz (75th percentile)
23 1/2 inches long (75th percentile)
Head circumference is 15 3/4 (75th percentile)

She also had to get 3 shots and one oral dose. She did really well! She screamed for about half a minute when the shot went in, but as soon as I was able to pick her up again she calmed down. And during the exam she was just watching the doctor and smiling. Such a good baby!

Here are some pictures from 08/04/09:

Tummy Time

Who's Who?

Here's a hint: The first picture was taken on July 24th 2009. The second picture was taken on August 9th, 2006. That would've made the picture of Paige 18 days older than Brooke is in her pic. They're both so chubby!!!

Playing on the swings

We installed a baby swing to our swing set for Brooke to play in. She loves it! We aren't surprised because she loves the swing inside and she loves being outside, so this is the best of both!





Check out our garden behind Paige. Zuchinni, squash and cucumbers are growing like crazy and the tomatoes are getting big and should be turning red very soon!

Chimney Rocks Park

Today we packed a picnic lunch and took a hike in Chimney Rocks Park.

Here's the view of Chimney Rocks from the road:


Here's a zoomed in picture of the rocks:

Before we started hiking we had our picnic lunch in this area:

Paige did so well walking up and down the steep trail by herself:

The first overlook as we hiked up gave us a view of the parking lot where are car is and the area where we had our picnic is on the right:

And here we are at the very top above the chimney rocks:
I think finding this slug was the highlight of Justin's hike:

Vacation

Painting, gardening, and more

We've been really busy lately. We just got back from vacation in Ocean City... I'll post those pictures a bit later after I sort through all of them.

When we got back, we had a garden full of zucchini! And since they were left to grow for a week, some of them got pretty big!Don't worry, she's not actually licking the zucchini. I was able to grab it before her tongue touched it.
Story time with Daddy:

Here's Paige helping to put primer on the family room walls. We're almost done with our renovations!