Flock of Sekols

I was feeling adventurous this morning, so I whipped up some green eggs and ham for the girls.  There was also apple cake, which Anna ate.  Surpisingly, Nora ate the eggs and was quite excited.

This weekend is the annual Wine on the Mountain at Penns Peak in Jim Thorpe, PA. It is an indoor event featuring wine tastings from the nine wineries that make up the Lehigh Valley Wine Trail.  I went with a few friends and tasted lots of yummy wines (and a few not so yummy wines…) while Matthew stayed home with all three kiddos for the first time! I made sure that I had my cell phone charged and with me (something that I don’t always remember to do…) but there were no phone calls begging me to come home and after returning home several hours later it appears that daddy was fully capable of holding down the fort without mommy. I think that means mommy gets to go out more often! Whoo Hoo!

Anna may be the most accident prone child we’ve ever met… and also one of the most daring! I’m sure we’ll be making more than one trip to the E.R. with her over the years and we thought for a minute that her first trip might be today. She was sitting in one of the kiddie chairs at their Penn State kiddie card table and she was trying to push the chair back from the table. As she turned around in the chair, it flipped backwards causing her to fall into the tv stand face first. She hit the right side of her right eye and it swelled up and turned black and blue immediately. After calling the peditrician they told us to just keep an eye on her and we kept ice on it as much as she would let us. Luckily it wasn’t a few centimeters over or it would have been sooooo much worse.

Our little guy is just over a month old and he already rolled over from his stomach to his back! Liam was having some tummy time on his boppy pillow and I was laying on the floor talking to him. Matt and the girls were sitting in the recliner right beside where we were. I got up to get Nora a refill of her drink, which only took a minute and when I came back in he was on his back! I asked Matt if he saw him roll over but he didn’t so we both missed it, but somehow he got from his tummy to his back. Granted, he was slighly raised since he was on the boppy pillow, but still he’s one tough little kid to be doing that already!

Grammy Terry and Grandpa Joe are on vacation this week… which usually means LOTS of shopping for them! Apparently they were feeling extra adventerous for today though because they invited me and the kiddos to go with them to The Crossings, which is the Outlet Mall in Tannersville, PA. So, we packed up the MV with all the baggage that you need for a day out of the house with three kids and headed out for a day of shopping. The kiddos were really good considering we were gone for almost 6 hours!

Liam is one month old today! It is hard to believe that our little man is a month old already, time seems to fly by even faster with each kid. Liam is such a good baby. He definitely completes our family as we already couldn’t imagine our lives without him.

We usually have a big family breakfast at least one day over the weekend and this morning the girls joined in on the preparations as we made breakfast for their daddy. Anna stirred the pancakes and helped set the table. Nora helped me crack the eggs and then stirred them. When breakfast was almost ready I let the girls go upstairs to wake Matt up for his special breakfast – they were so excited!

We had a busy 4th of July weekend! We attended picnics on Saturday and Sunday, all decked out in our red, white, and blue and had a great time playing outside, swimming, and spending time with friends and family. Happy Birthday America!

Matt and I have been trying to give each of the girls some one on one time with each of us so that they don’t feel that with the addition of a new baby that they are getting less of mommy and daddy’s attention. On this day we decided to have a special mommy, daddy, and Anna day which included going to lunch at Louie’s  and then taking Anna to get her first hair cut. Recollecting back to the catastrophe of Nora’s first hair cut, we were prepared for temper tantrums from Anna… and possibly from the mama as well! Fortunately though, Anna’s first hair cut was a much more pleasant experience! As you can see in the pics, our girly girl had her purse with her along with her cell phone which she chatted away on while waiting for daddy to get his hair cut. When it was her turn she wasn’t thrilled with the idea at first and attempted to climb out of the chair a few times, but quickly decided that it wasn’t that bad. She loved the hair dryer and by the end of her trim she was grinning from ear to ear at herself in the mirror!

Since the sun is something we haven’t seen nearly enough of this summer, we decided to take advantage of the heatwave today and let the girls play in the sprinkler. They were quite excited to get their swimsuits on, however Anna wasn’t so sure she wanted to play in the rather chilly water once we were out there!