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.

Greenbrier Summer Concert Series

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Today was the first of the Greenbrier Concert Series where bands play every Friday night at a shopping complex five minutes from our house.  We all had a fun time listening to the music, having a picnic dinner, and playing.  Also we scoped out which areas of the audience that were shaded for next time.

Pool Time

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Today was hot, so we went down to the pool as a family.  We have gone for the past couple of weeks, and Brooke has seen some other kids with their “noodles” and wanted to play with them.  This was surprising considering about a year ago she was deathly afraid of them, but Laura bought her one and we got to test it out today.  Brooke loved it.  She had her own independence in the water while using it and seemed to like floating free.

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!