Quality Time

With David being gone all last week and now he's turning around tomorrow morning and leaving again we tried to get some quality time in with the kids this afternoon. Thankfully, his trip is only going to be from Monday to Wednesday so 2 days were cut off his trip for this week. I'm so glad...and so is he! It's amazing how much you can miss in a week with these kids. Last week Savannah starting standing on her own (while holding onto something), starting drinking from a sippie cup (although she has yet to repeat it), and Benjamin's vocabulary just increases exponentially with every day.

We spent the afternoon at the park after his nap today. Benjamin has started swinging in the big kid swing now. He no longer likes to swing in the bucket swing. Well, that completely back fired on us today. David was pushing him as high as he could go (because Benjamin kept asking "higher please" - how can you resist that politeness?) and while he was at his highest point of the swing he let go and went face first in the dirt. He bit his tongue pretty bad and had a mouth full of blood for a little while. Scared me to death. But we learned something from it....dark green shirts hide blood. And can you believe it, once he calmed down from his plunge, he wanted to get back on the swing!

Oh and something completely amazing happen today. Savannah took a nap from 12:30pm to 3:30pm. Both kids woke up at the exact same time. So I actually got to take a nap today. I'm calling it my little miracle.


Daddy and Benjamin












The swing he fell from.












A kiss for Savannah















It's impossible to get everyone looking at the camera at the same time....