Author Archives: Laura

Fix-it Brooke

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Today we had the appliance repairman come to fix our microwave that broke before we left for vacation.  Brooke saw their stepstool and tools and immediately wanted to help.  The two men were very sweet and got a kick of her getting her own stool and setting it next to theirs to help.  I put her to task with her tools to fix the door while they fixed the microwave.  Both parties did a great job and we have a working door and microwave now.  After our naps Brooke wanted to listen to her heart, my heart, and the baby so she ran and grabbed my stethoscope from the study and put it in her ears.  I caught a glimpse us in the mirror and thought she was so cute I had to take a few pictures.

Beach Vacation

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This last week we took a beach vacation and rented a small house at the north end beach in Virginia Beach.  We had a good time though will not rent locally again, but because I know better this pregnancy that only a fool leaves your doctors at the end of pregnancy AJ humored me the location for this trip. Even though we were only 30 minutes from home we stayed in the oceanfront area the whole week and didn’t venture past a 4 mile radius of the beach house.  The first day there it rained and so we went the Aquarium to spend the morning and got to venture out to the beach that evening.  AJ and I had a lovely dinner at ‘One Fish Two Fish’ on the Lynnheaven Inlet for our 6 year wedding anniversary.  The next morning I had some pregnancy insomnia and got to see what the beach looked like at 6am.  Naturally I took my tea with me.  We went to the beach everyday and in the evening biked to the boardwalk or to First Landing State Park, saw a boardwalk concert, and took Brooke to the nearby parks to play on the playground.  We spent a morning at ‘The Narrows’ the inlet beach in First Landing State Park as well. Though we had to stay out of the water because of two rowdy sting rays and a lot of jellyfish.  We had a great time and our beach baby loved endless destruction of sand shapes we created, being buried almost daily in sand, burying Mommy or Dadda, going on walks and getting shoulder (Dadda) and piggyback (Mommy) rides, playing in the shallow waves, collecting water and dumping it on the ground, herself, us, and of course being out in the ocean waves jumping and dunking for hours.  It was a wonderful restorative trip and so nice to spend time together un-distracted from life as a family.

Father’s Day 2014

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Because AJ worked during the week and the weekend, I planned a surprise for him to extend the Father’s Day into a weekend of fun and relaxation.  It started early Thursday morning before AJ went to work with a surprise scavenger hunt to find F-A-T-H-E-R clues that were hidden all around Chesapeake City Park ending in meeting Brooke and I with the gifts that correlated with each clue.  Friday AJ slept in and we spent time as a family at the pool and then AJ got treated to a well deserved steak dinner date night.  Saturday morning we spent relaxing and doing whatever AJ wanted to do which was car shopping.  Sunday morning AJ got to sleep in again and had a delicious pancake breakfast made by myself and Brooke.  We hope he got to enjoy his time with us!

Aquarium with Adrianna

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We took our friend Adrianna to the Virginia Aquarium today.  The girls had a lot of fun looking at all the different exhibits.  Afterwards we all enjoyed lunch out and the girls got to play some more.  It was a fun morning with two adorable two-year olds.

Brooke Giving Baby A Bath

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This evening we came upstairs to play before bedtime and Brooke put baby in the infant bouncer and started reading her “The Grouchy Ladybug”.  Then while I was cleaning up the playroom after telling Brooke it was time for a bath she arrived back at the playroom door with baby, her bath soap, and her towel.  Saying “baby bath”.  I figured that baby needed a bath anyway (I run her in with Brooke’s clothes periodically) and that as long as Brooke understood that baby would have to dry overnight and she would have to pick another animal to sleep with tonight we could give baby a bath.  After a “yea” in response (we are excited to be getting verbal affirmations instead of the usual head nods) I started the bath.  After getting Brooke in the tub I handed her baby and then her wet washcloth.  Brooke cleaned baby all over, head, tummy, feet and then played with her.  I barely got Brooke dry before she insisted that of course baby had to be dried off as well.