Finally Swimsuit Weather (or so they hope)

The past two weeks have been really busy as I’ve spent 5 full days (spread throughout) out of our home working on a big commercial food photography shoot.  Honestly, it couldn’t have gone any better.  The kids spent all the time I was working at my mom’s house with her and they LOVED having so much Oma time.  It’s such a relief to know that they’re happy and doing well when I have to be gone from them.  Thanks, Mom, for taking such great care of them!

A few weeks ago, my local business review/promo group, SassyScoops, got to review a photographer named Emily Clark who has a project called “Mommy Models.”  Emily loves to take “ordinary” moms and give them a glamorous photo shoot, bringing out their true beauty.  It was really fun!  She really wanted to get some lovely pregnancy shots during my shoot, even though my belly isn’t very big, still.  She kept saying, “ok, now push out your belly as much as you can for this shot.”  It took a lot of concentration, lol!  But, I’m really happy with the results.  I’m really excited to have such nice shots to document this pregnancy and Emily was completely adorable to work with.

Here’s a few other pics from that day (I was 16-17 weeks along when these were taken; now I’m 18-19 weeks along):

Yesterday was SUCH a beautiful day outside!  The kids were ecstatic and begging Randy to let them run through the sprinklers in the yard.  It wasn’t even that hot, but they have been waiting MONTHS and months to have swimsuit weather.  So, we put their swimsuits on and let them play for a few hours in the sprinklers in our backyard.  We had a backyard picnic, eating hot dogs cooked on the grill (sooooo yummy!) and then the kids played a little more in the water.  Then, they got too cold and wanted to come inside for a warm bath.

Claire is by far the most excited about swimsuit weather.  If we let her, I’m sure she’d wear nothing but a swimsuit all day, every day.  She was hoping we’d let her take her bath in her swimsuit, too, but I insisted that we needed to get her all the way clean and made her take it off.  I washed the kids’ hair and bodies and they played in the tub for awhile until they wanted to get out.  I got them all dressed in nice, comfy play clothes and then.. lo and behold… they saw Randy was still in the backyard working and they had to be out there with him.  It wasn’t long after they were begging for swimsuits again.

Randy, being the amazing dad he is, gave them a real treat.  He cleaned out their sandbox/pool (we’d been using it as a sandbox, but it can also be a pool) and set up this cool area under our back patio stairs.  He put down lots of bark around it and set their little picnic table up by it.  Then, he opened the nearby basement window and hooked the hose up to the water heater and filled their pool with warm water!  (Spoiled them rotten, huh?).  The kids were in heaven, especially with their swimsuits on again.

We’re trying to get the kids back on their normal bedtime routine time (asleep by 8pm – daylight savings totally threw us for a loop this time, messing up the routine), so yesterday we just let all three kids play all day long with no naps.  After their “hot tub” pool play was over, we brought them in for dinner and put them in their pajamas.  Norah was eating frozen peas (she loves those) happily in her highchair one minute and then was asleep with her head on the counter the next.  We tried to revive her, but she was out and she slept over 14 hours last night!!  I don’t know if she’s ever been that exhausted!  Tate and Claire went to bed really well, too, which was nice and they all got a great night of sleep.

Warm weather really is nice for the kids; they just love playing outside all day and it’s so much more interesting than when it’s cold weather and they’re stuck indoors.  Yay for the sunshine!!!

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