The Countdown begins

First and foremost, I just want to say I am sorry for not posting anything in a while. I have a few in progress but nothing is completely finished. We have been pretty busy the past few days, and to be honest, I have been spending alot of my blogging time on ebay--it is that time of year again, the addiction returns.

Here is a quick breakdown of the lastest happenings:
Last Saturday Ran and I took the girls out separately. Ran and Abigail went to the toy store, Sonic and the park. Emma and I had to run errands, then went to the mall to shop, eat, watch glow in the dark putt-putt and get a M&M cookie, then to the Dollar Tree to get a special treat. It was so bizarre and unbelieveablly quiet and easy to only have 1 child. Ran and I couldn't get over how quiet they both were; we were definitely made aware of how much of what they are doing is just shear competition for our attention. The big news of the evening was the purse that Ran bought Abigail, b/c he didn't get Emma one. SO we had drama all night and all day Sunday over that PURSE!!!!!! So needless to say we went right back to town Sunday and bought another one. So now we have 2, and they have been wagging them everywhere; and as many of you have already guessed Emma has her's packed full of things she has collected from all over the house. And much to my amazement she has them all memorized, so if ANYONE touches anything she demands to know exactly where it is.

We are in the official "end of summer" countdown here at the Reding house. Next Monday, I return to my old life of mom/wife/teacher :( I am trying to focus on one day at a time and just enjoy each second before reality sets back in. Being off in the summer is a wonderful part of my job, however, after being off work for 8 weeks it is so hard to go back. I would like to report to everyone(with a bit of reservation) that Abigail is officially potty trained. She is now telling us when she needs to peepee and she has pooped in the potty for the past 2 times! Yeah Abigail!!!!! We are SOOOO proud. Yesterday we spent the afternoon swimming at Mimi's house and playing with Bralan. Once again, the water was freezing--Mimi swears that it feels like bathwater, but to us it is rather cool. After the pool, Emma was busying herself "taking care" of Bralan--which Bralan hates. She told me that she needed to put some rocks in the sandbox to keep Bralan safe and healthy??? Bralan mostly tries to do her own thing and ignore Emma's antics, but sometimes when they get the best of her you can hear her saying, "NO,NO,NO". Can't wait until she is more vocal and we hear the 3 of them arguing--FUN TIMES!!!!!!!!!

Today we went back to Point Mallard with Robin and Lauren(aka Lara Carrott). We had so much fun, and the weather was absolutely perfect. Abigail went down the biggest slide of all today. It was a tunnel slide in the kids section. I am not great with guessing lengths, but I would guess it was atleast 20 feet tall, it almost dropped straight down before curving and dumping her out into the water. She was such a big girl! She went down 3 times, before she finally got scared and refused to do it again. By the way, my girl wouldn't have the little kiddie slides that are made for 2 year olds....I am so looking forward to the beach at the end of August, I just know they are going to have a blast.