My Dear Cousin Carrie has managed to squeeze in approximately 65 blogs since then.
I can't compete.
The only new news is this...
HAYLEY ANNE HARRIGER needs glasses. I've come to terms with this. It was hard at first... but I realized she's still Hayley... and Uhm... last time I looked in the mirror... I was wearing glasses, too.
Here is a shot of Hayley wearing her new glasses: :P
Seriously - they come in sometime this weekend & they are pink!
Since I'm here... here are some other pictures from August & July:
SUPER FLYING HAYLEY!
C-O-N-C-E-N-T-R-A-T-E!
The 2020 Olympics are fast approaching & I think we're training for the tallest Olympic Gold Medalist EVER!!
You all know Tim & his quest for useless knowledge... of course he Googled "Tallest Olympic Gymnast" & discovered that the girl considered THE TALLEST was all of 5-feet, 4-inches!
No wonder when I was in Kindergarten, the gymnastics teacher at the YMCA told my mom that "Maybe gymnastics isn't the best place for Sara."
WHY NOT!?!? Just because I was already 150# & 5-foot tall?!?!
Anyway, we enrolled Hayley in a "tumbling tots" gymnastics class during July & August.
She LOVED going to "nymnistikas" every Wednesday! This past Wednesday was the final class.
We're looking into either Soccer or more gymnastics for the September/October schedule. It is something I think is fun for Hayley - getting out, being a big girl, getting away from Hannah for 45 minutes... & Hannah loves it too, because she gets to play with Rosie!
(Rosie is one of the Albus girls that I babysat when I was in High School & College.)
Rosie loves it too, because she gets paid! :)
(& Payback is the best... "Hey Rosie.. we're here & Hannah needs a clean diaper. See you in an hour!")
Tim & I celebrated nine...
NINE! 9! Nueve! Neun! Neuf!!!
YEARS of marriage on August 14.
Tim started a tradition of buying me one rose for every year... and now I told him it is better to buy a dozen & take out the "extras"... He was buying the $4 stems. That was fine years 1 - 4! LOL
I met TWO of my "Cyber-Mommy" friends!!!
Jill is from Chicago. She was in MN on business in August.
Her son Jack is Hannah's age. I "met" Jill through BabyCenter.com's "Birth-Club"...
(I can't wait until she is forced to return to Minneapolis!!!)
I also met another "Cyber-mommy" friend in July!
Eliza lives in Michigan (Ann Arbor). Her Daughter is Jessalyn. They came to MN for their summer vacation at the Mall of America. They attempted to go down-town Minneapolis to check out the Hard Rock Cafe.
Let's just say they got a GREAT tour of the downtown area, but never found Block E or the Hard Rock Cafe! Or wait... did the find it & couldn't find parking? or did they turn right & end up in St. Paul? I can't remember. Anyway. I told them driving downtown Minneapolis isnt' for MPLS rookies.
I think I met the tallest & least-tall "cyber-friend" this summer. Jill tops off just under 5-feet tall & Eliza is on the 6-foot side of the fence.
(I'm pretty sure Eliza's 6 feet tall... I do have one friend at least AS tall if not taller than Eliza, Val is 6'Something. I look forward to meeting her one day, too! Maybe I could meet Eliza & Val at the same time & officially be "The Short One" for the first time EVER!!!)
Strawberries, Corn & Slides, OH MY!
Seriously... the slowest slide ever. She was actually stopped & just sitting there in this picture.
Like... GREASE THAT BABY UP!!
Picking Strawberries on the 4th of July
The black dot on Hannah's left arm.... A GIANT MOSQUITO! No kidding.
A bit of foreshadowing?
On July 4, I woke up to this standing over me. She grabbed my glasses & was goofing off... Of course my camera is sitting on my night-stand.
(and for the record... those are MY glasses, not hers.)
