Big Week at Our House!

This weekend we worked in the yard. I planted some pansies and Justin picked up all of the pine needles that had fallen so far. With the rain and the wind yesterday, there are already a lot more on the driveway and in the yard. Poor Justin! While I planted some of the pansies, Carter and London made a "garden" with the rest of the flowers and some of their stuffed animals. Then Carter asked us to take a picture for me to put on my blog! So here it is.

Marley had her first taste of real food this week, if you want to call very-watered-down rice cereal "food." We've thickened it up a little more the last few times, and she seems to be enjoying it.

London will be turning 3 years old on Friday, so we have been warning her that it's time to put her pacifiers up. (Way past time, but you know what I mean.) Anyway, last week we told her that she just had a few more days with it. So Thursday night was her last night to sleep with it. Here is a picture of her with it before she went to sleep that last time with it.

On Friday morning, she put it in a baggie with Marley's name on it and we put the baggie at the top of Marley's closet. She wanted it back for nap time that day, but we didn't give it to her, and she went to sleep without it. She's been paci-free ever since! She hasn't even mentioned it except to say that she doesn't use it anymore. She's very proud of herself (as she should be!). Tonight she decided she wanted to put her duck up in the closet too. For those of you who know about her duck, this was a huge declaration. I told her she didn't need to do that, and that big girls can still sleep with ducks. But she wanted to, so we put it in a baggie too and put it up there with the pacis. We were all sad except for her. But not to worry--the duck is back where it belongs in bed with her! She only made it ten minutes in her bed without it. :-)

And a few more pictures of my sweet girls (not sure where Carter was for all of these pictures!):

That brown thing in London's hand in the picture below is her duck!