Summer Highlights
Here are some random highlights from my phone from this summer that didn’t really fit into other posts.
The girls have both figured out how to take pictures with the iPad or my phone so I am constantly finding random pictures of them on my phone….usually making silly faces.
Sookie and Winnie are loving life together. It took Winnie a little while to really start to play with Sookie. It almost seemed like she was afraid she would hurt Sookie when she was really little. It took a few weeks for them to adjust to life together but now they are best friends and play all the time! Sookie is slowly learning boundaries with her play because Winnie lets her do anything (except take her food…that’s the only time she’ll growl at Sookie). We are working on teaching Sookie that you can’t bite and play dirty. But it is so fun to see them play and be best buds.
Sookie is such a cutie but she is a mess. She is constantly stealing shoes, socks, stuffed animals, bathroom trash, etc. We keep saying we forget what life with a puppy was like because the time when Winnie was a puppy seems like a black hole because we had a 1 year old baby at the same time. Sookie got spayed this summer and had to wear the donut of shame. We decided to wait to get her groomed until after she healed from getting spayed to be able to even out where they had to shave her, which meant she got super shaggy. She got so shaggy she had enough hair on top of her head for a little ponytail…something she was not a fan of. Zoe and Sookie are really developing a bond because Zoe knows that Sookie will eventually be her sleeping buddy. She started playing a game with Sookie where she lays on the floor and hides under the blanket while Sookie lays down on top of her. Zoe giggles the whole time they play together. And this summer she discovered a fun new toy…balloons. She is so cute when she plays with balloons and surprisingly she plays for a while before she pops them.
One evening this summer we looked outside and saw the most beautiful double rainbow!
DJ and I were able to take 2 dates over the summer. The first was to the Monet and Friends exhibit at Biltmore, which was so cool. Impressionists are my favorite artists and it was so cool to see their images projected in the immersive exhibit. Then we were able to see Hamilton again when it came to town. It was just as good as the first time we saw it!
Zoe found a way to make the most of the rainy days we had this summer. As long as it wasn’t thundering, she wanted to play outside in the rain some. Ava is growing so much these days! And Zoe requests having her picture taken more and more these days, which I am happy to oblige.
Zoe decided to use her Christmas money to buy a new doll this summer. This doll is amazing. Her name happens to be Zoe (so she is referred to as Zoe doll) and the creator is a Black woman who wanted to create a doll to promote a positive image around Black hair. You can wash and style the doll’s hair and Zoe is now a little more willing for hair day since she can choose a style for her and Zoe doll. On one of the days Ava had her last camp, I took Zoe to try to find some crocs at the consignment stores since she outgrew her’s. I realized as we were out that we didn’t have time to go back home for lunch before we needed to pick up Ava so we headed to Panera. I decided to take a picture of her because I realized it was one of my last days to spend just the 2 of us before she heads off to kindergarten.
It was a busy summer with camps and swimming but it was a lot of fun. Now we are all ready for school!
