Sooooo busy.

Life has been crazy. There are schedules to keep, naps to take, speech therapy to attend, fun to be had,  Miss Jean's, Miss Jaspers', squeezing in meals, and trying for structure. I feel like I am going a mile a minute. Corralling three kids is no joke, getting out of the house is like herding cats. It is seriously a miracle that I make it anywhere on time. There is always a last minute potty or poop need, are you kidding me!? Don't get me wrong, I would much prefer that to the alternative, but we are seriously arriving places at the last possible second, so those extra two minutes throw a real wrench into things (thank God our builder and designer convinced us to put a powder room into the mudroom).

Piper is almost 8 months and boy has she changed, almost over night. I took a video of her last Thursday and she was barely crawling. She was doing a combo of army crawling and real crawling, but was so slow and uneasy. Fast forward to yesterday, like four days later and she is everywhere, and even pulling up. Seriously. How is that possible? All of the sudden my peaceful little baby is into everything and I am rapidly trying to eliminate things that she will choke on or fall on while Sully and Greta instantly pull them back out. She is still my baby, but she is getting so big. She has been better in the nights, too, only getting up once around 4am. I know the day will come when she sleeps through, but anticipate it will be when I quit nursing, around a year or so.

I can hardly type this without my heart aching a little but, but Greta has almost completely stopped calling Sully 'Ayah.' That was her nick name for him for so long. At first it drove him nuts, but we are all so used to it that when she calls him Sully, I correct her and hope she goes back the old name. I've stopped doing that as I know nature needs to take its course, but it feels like everyone around here is having a growth spurt and Im not sure how comfortable I am with that.

We have had some major house progress, too. We had a new driveway put in, it is a combination of pavers and concrete. Dave came up with the design and it looks really nice. The graders were back yesterday (and thanks to the direction from my mom, we finally have the yard just how we want it) and the irrigation people reconnected the sprinkler system. We are next on the sod list as long as it stays dry. I told Dave that if I wake unto rain in the morning I will cry as they will be here tomorrow if it doesn't. We NEED sod. I NEED this to be wrapped up. We NEED a final bill so we can close this chapter of our lives. We started two years ago this month and I'm officially over it.

Pretty Greta.

Coffee with Piper (a rare quiet moment with her).

Morning, sweet girl. 

Rain dance with Anna. 

Hiding from the 'punder' (the rain dance worked :)).

Visiting daddy at work. 

Hiking adventure while Piper and Daddy are home napping.

Selfie on the trail. 

Greta 'skabing.'

Sully and Greta making coffee for Dave. 

Skid steer fun while the guys are at lunch. 

Puzzle progress, Piper is in on the fun. 

Tubby time with all three. 

Waiting to show Greta the ropes in the bounce house.