June = Lots of Parties

I used to always want a summer baby to celebrate in with all the other people having little swim parties and all. Now that I have my own kids, I am actually glad that they are not born during birthday/wedding season. (May - August). This month alone we have 5 birthday parties to go to and almost every weekend is taken up with some sort of little party. Definately keeps us busy this month!

This past Saturday we had a party for two little girls in Josh & Jenna's Sunday School class at church. Brooklyn & Naomi aren't related, but were born a day apart and their mommies are good friends at church, so they had a joint party at a place called "The Little Gym". I've never been to this place before, but it was an AWESOME place to have a birthday party! It's a gym for kids 12 months through 12 years. The kids got to do a lot of guided and independent activities that allowed them to exert physical energy.

I had forgot to bring my camera, but here's a few videos I took of the kids with my phone. Sorry for the lack of sound. I wish you could hear them giggling away!

Up next is my neice Caityln's 2nd birthday party this Saturday. Stay tuned for more June fun!

Sharing A Room...

I love the fact that the girls get along so well and that they actually enjoy one another. The problem comes in preparing for nite-nite time and getting them to understand that we don't climb into the crib to play; we can't stay up tickling for hours past our bedtime; and we definately can't play hide-and-go-seek with the blankets and each other when we are supposed to be sleeping. Here's a little video of what I catch Jenna doing almost every night....

The solution? I haven't really found one yet other than to make sure Jenna goes to sleep first. Sounds simple, right? It would be but usually Julianna is the one who needs to go to sleep first. We used to set up the pack-n-play in the playroom and then just put the girls to sleep separately, but being that a new little one will be needing that in a few short months, and we really don't want to ignore the problem, but deal with it, we decided not to go that route. Instead we usually have to give a couple spankings and keep a close eye out on "michevious giggling" until both are asleep. I have to say though that each night the time it takes gets shorter and shorter. Soon we won't have to say anything at all, but they will know bed time means bed time!