Three fun things and one not so much

First fun thing...Rowan did something called "Kindergarten Camp" every morning last week. It was basically an introduction to life at her new Elementary school, getting to know some of the kids in her future class, and how the structure may differ from daycare. What can I tell you, the kid loved it! Every day when I picked her up she told me it was not long enough! A very good sign I would say.

Second fun thing...our neighbour McKenzie was in camp with Rowan and while the two play together they have not really played together before, know what I mean? Well camp changed all that. I was off on Friday afternoon so we brought McKenzie home from camp that day as well and Rowan stayed at her house all afternoon, had lunch, went for a swim in their pool and everything! I had to drag her away so we could get to the wedding we were going to (3rd fun thing) but she went back on Saturday afternoon and had so much fun she ended up sleeping over! That's right, Rowan had her first sleep over with a non relative this past weekend! And she made it through the night without having to call us. Although Tina (the mom) tells us Rowan ended up sleeping with her because she claimed the kids room was too loud and Tina's husband Johnny had fallen asleep on the couch so there was room for her. LOL

Third fun thing...we went to a wedding Friday night!  Parker's cousin Danny's daughter Emilie got married.  Tracy and Rob babysat Lily but Rowan came with us to her first wedding!  Emilie married Chris who is part Greek so there was lots of fun dancing at the wedding and Rowan enjoyed every minute of it!  Parker's other cousin Amy and her two kids Mariah and Legacy came and stayed with us for the week leading up to the wedding.  They and Parker and Rowan and other family members all went to the Phillies game the night before the wedding as well.  Lily and I enjoyed a quiet night in our house together ;)

The not so much...in the past week Zoey has been having problems. She began drinking excessive amounts of water and having accidents in the house. We finally were able to get her to the vet on Saturday morning where they ran some tests and Monday of this week they called to tell us she was diabetic (as suspected). I dropped her off at the vet on Tuesday morning so they could start working on a baseline curve for her for insulin and last night when I picked her up I learned how to give her shots of insulin. She will now need two shots a day for the rest of her life. She took them like a champ though and as nervous as I was at the thought of having to give her needles all the time it was very easy once they showed me how. Now we just have to be very, very consistent with her and keep her on a steady schedule of food and insulin. My poor little fur baby.

One group out, another one in

So to sum it up in a nutshell...Mom and Abby came down on the 8th of August to hang out for a week and then return home taking Jessica with them. Rowan stayed home again all week so she could hang out with Abby some more. I had to work but tried to rearrange the schedule as best I could so we could do at least one fun thing....and that thing was Dorney Park. It was awesome! Mom was kind enough to treat and rented a cabana so we had somewhere to keep all our things and get out of the sun and sit and relax when wanted. (Lily stayed at daycare..shhhhh) We had intended to do both amusement rides and water park but after the first ride of the day was a 25 minute wait for the girls it became a water park only day. And we were there all day, 11am to 7pm for the waterpark and we finally left Dorney Park just after 8pm. Not alot of pics cause Mom was the only one who brought a camera and she was having way too much fun in the water park too!













We went to Rices on Saturday morning and hung at the Hatboro pool that afternoon and then had to say our good byes as Mom, Abby and Jess left on Sunday morning.

24 hours of downtime and then on Monday Parker's cousin Amy and her two kids, Mariah and Legacy came to town to stay for the wedding on Friday night we are all going to.

We get our house back to ourselves next Sunday...is it wrong to start a countdown?

Tubing on the Delaware

Best. Day. Ever. Tubing on the Delaware with the gang from the neighbourhood. Kids at Joe and Diane's because we did not want to take them with us before we checked it out to see if we could take them, Rowan - yes, Lily - not so much. Our "Rent a Marine" Johnny was able to maneouver all of us together so we could group float and he rescued us when we floated away in error. A boisterous ride with the Gages there and back, a trip to McGonads for a snack on the way home. Some rest at our own homes for a few hours then all over to Johnny and Tina's for potluck/bbq. Awesome, awesome day. Weather was perfect, company was hilarious - a definite must do again.

The Tooth Fairy Cometh

This is what happened in the middle of dinner last night - midbite Rowan stopped and said "Mommy look at my tooth"...then the freaking out began. After much debating and crying and carrying on, Rowan finally let Parker pull it out for her. I was nowhere to be found, I was trying to be brave but it was grossing me out so much I had to pretend I was taking care of Lily. Lily in fact did need taking care of because Rowan was so upset Lily was so upset. Once it was finally out and calmer heads prevailed Rowan was able to really smile and show off her new gap. We got the Tooth Fairy box out that Auntie Lori had bought Rowan a few years ago and got it all ready. Rowan did not want the tooth fairy coming into her room so we left it on the wall near the front door instead. This morning she woke up to quite the bounty. Apparently the first tooth is worth the most. So that's it - the tooth Rowan swore was loose for months, months(!) is finally out. One down, 19 to go. And just because we thought it was so funny...check this short video out...the tooth was out but Rowan was still hysterically upset about it, her anxiety was causing Lily anxiety as well.

The Jersey Shore

So normally every year we go down the shore for at least a long weekend. This year it was not meant to be but we still had to take a daytrip if for no other reason than to get our family picture taken since it has become an annual tradition on our shore trips and we can't very well skip a year.




Pictures look nice eh? Took 4 1/2 hours to get there so they better! I thought Jessica was going to scream in the car on the way down. Traffic was so bad, guess everyone else had the same idea as us! But we did finally get there and made the most of our day. We spent almost 9 hours on the boardwalk riding all the rides we could go on. Parker, Jessica and Rowan went on almost everything together and were best friends all day long. Lily and I went on the kiddie rides together, just my speed.





















Jessica got the trifecta of the shore experience as well, Curly Fries, Mack and Manco Pizza and Kohr Brothers ice cream. She was happy. I think she was hoping she would see someone from the MTV show "The Jersey Shore" but we tried to explain that was filmed in a different spot. *LOL*

Next year we are planning to get down there for a week and Parker already wants Jessica to come back down for that at the very least because her and Rowan were such good ride buddies!