lotsa love today…

it’s austyn’s birthday and with that comes a large helping of neighborhood boys. consequently, our front lawn looks like a bike shop, our pool level is a foot less than it was this morning, and lainey has been batting her eyelashes non-stop at all the boys all day. she loves the attention…not to mention, austyn’s cake. (aren’t cake-eating photos the bestest?)

*little chameleon showing off her ability to use light powers to change her eyes to blue-green and her hair to strawberry blonde. seriously…every day, she’s a different color. under ‘eye color’ in her baby book, it’s been changed three times.

*tryin’ out our new doctor kit. our teddy bears have lots of band-aids these days.

*and, the girl has found her belly button. shows it to random strangers, too.

…enjoying the fun & lovely things. ~k

the great thing about having cool, laid back friends is that a simple noon playdate turns into this awesome “hey, you guys wanna stay for dinner and put your kid to bed here?” thing.

so it was yesterday when baylee came to play and a regular day magically became a really, really fun one when her mommy and daddy stayed and hung out with us and she and lainey did magical things…like play in the pool, have a full-out dress-up tea party outside, draw cool things with sidewalk chalk at sunset (or, in lainey’s case, eat the yellow chalk, so she’s drooling this bile-looking junk), watch nemo together, take a wagon stroll (and spot two bunnies!) and end the night with a bath and jammies.

yes, it was divine. not just for them…for us too!

…enjoying the playdate things. ~k