5 on Friday

1. We had family pictures taken on Monday.   I waited until the very last minute to put Genevieve in her outfit.  Two minutes after she was dressed she had a blow-out poop.  Go figure.  Here is a preview:

3 month and 2.5 year photos

2. Ellie got some new pool toys and a new pool bag this week (OK, I got a new pool bag which Ellie quickly claimed as hers).  She was really excited to use them, and with this hot weather Mommy and Daddy were too.   We spent the 4th of July with Mike, Megan and Liam.  Megan and I laid out by the pool while Mike and Nick watched the sleeping babies.  Then we all made a trip to the pool.   The water was so warm we even took Genevieve in.   She was not in very long, but she seemed to enjoy it.

3.  We went to the Blank Park Zoo with the Beltman Family on Saturday morning.   I don't think I had ever been there before.  It was a great morning trip, with lunch on the lawn before we went home for nap time.  Ellie's favorite part was the peacock, and she asks Nick to look at the pictures he took daily.

4. Our house (house, not condo) was broken into 4th of July night/yesterday morning.   The only thing they took (they because getting the TV off the wall was not a one person job) was the TV that was still mounted to the wall.   The TV was deemed non-cleanable, so it was getting replaced anyway.   When they took the TV off the wall they broke a piece off of it.   I like to think that whomever ends up with it will be upset to find out that it doesn't completely work (because the piece is missing, so it only hooks up a certain way) and it stinks of fire smoke (a smell that cannot be removed unless they take the TV completely apart).  The only stuff left in the house are non-cleanable items, so it isn't like there is anything worth taking... but it is still disheartening that people would do something like that after everything else we are going through.  

5. The air conditioner in our condo was not working last night.   We tried turning it off for extended periods of time to thaw it out, but that did not work.   Thank goodness for my handy husband who researched on the internet to figure out that it was frozen inside the condo and not outside like we were originally thinking.  An hour or so of blow-drying with hot air melted the ice and we finally went to bed with a working air conditioner at 1am this morning ('we' meaning Nick and I, the girls were already in bed).   Needless to say, we are tired today.  

6.  To end on a positive note: we have a fun weekend of birthday celebrations, pool time and biking time planned.   We cannot wait!