Get this, stat

This heat is ridiculous. Really ridiculous. And serious. In our daily effort to keep cool and hydrated, this handy pitcher has made that pursuit a little more tasty. Last week, blueberry iced tea. This week, lemon\lime water. Yummy. Now off to get my naked baby from her nap, because it is definitely a diaper-only kind of day. Stay cool out there.

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So much love

These two get more in more attached with every passing day. It is so beautiful to watch.

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The sunflower dance

The sunflowers we planted back May-ish are finally as tall as Josephine. And that my friends is worth dancing about!

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Tottertown

For some reason, we all keep referring to "Totter's Otterville" as "Tottertown." Regardless of its name, it's a pretty good option out there for Cincinnati folks with kids who need to burn off some energy when it's too darn hot to do anything outside (or too darn cold to do anything outside come winter).

On Friday we met our friends Jodi & Keaton there and had so much fun.

Beatrice, as usual, was super chill:

Josie, as usual, was very creative in her style choices:

The highlight of the experience for Josie was the "paint your own face" area:

In her words, "I'm a sweet little mouse." (Yes honey, you are a sweet little mouse.)

The sweet little mouse also enjoyed a little ballet:

And even though we are pretty darn sure that the fever Josie came down with on Sunday can be traced back to Tottertown, it will still remain on our list as a fun little oasis in Northern Kentucky.  

There are some more photos below from my phone that I posted separately. Most importantly, check out the great sign on the door that was also posted throughout the whole place. Turns out, Totter has a peanut allergy. And while we wouldn't wish a peanut allergy on anyone, it's pretty darn cool that Totter has one.  (Thanks so much Jodi for giving us the scoop!)

Two sweet girls, getting big way too fast

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Oh this smile just melts me...every single time.

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Josie...just before she realized she was stuck and had to be rescued by a sweet older girl

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What's not to love about a ballpit?

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Josie insisted on a photo on the sign on the front door. Her words, "this is just so special to me."

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Still jumping, after all these years...

You know, it just occurred to me...

I just hit "publish" on the Jumperoo post below and then returned to my big sea of "blog these when you have time" photos and there was the video I referenced a couple of days ago about our daring backyard pool Splashini.

So, without further ado, here is Josie - still jumping like crazy - all these years later.  And I gotta say, there's a quote at the end of this if you turn it up that totally sums up Josie.



My brave little mama! She totally tweaked her ankle on the grand finale, and fighting tears, says "that was a big rad move" and climbed right back up to jump again - limping and all.  (Be careful sweet girl. Your injuries appear to hurt your mama way more than they hurt you.)

Jumperoo, Take Two!

For those of you who have been around from the beginning, you might remember Sweet Baby Josie loving her Jumperoo. Bea has officially (and already?!) outgrown the swing, so we decided to give the old Jumperoo a polish & shine and let Beatrice give it a whirl. She's still a little young for it, but it's something new and she likes being vertical. She's not bouncing in it yet, but I know she will one day. Heck, it's gotta be somewhat genetic right?

Here is Josie "showing Bea what to do" (which was a lump-in-the-throat moment since that video above seems like it just happened last week and not almost four years ago):

Um, she is wearing clothes although she looks totally naked. 

 And here is Beatrice carefully listening to her big sister's instructions, which included showing Bea a video on my phone of her jumping in the jumperoo. Hilarious.

 And Bea - quite pleased with herself - and looking quite a bit like her sister at this age if I do say so myself: