Beautiful Brooke: Still Recovering.

In my last post about our time in Benezette, I mentioned that our family if 3 got very little sleep. Add to that, our whirlwind trip to State College for the fireworks and an early morning trip to Newport to see Grammy Kathy, you've got the perfect combination for a SUPER SLEEPY Brooke.

We are STILL recovering and catching up on sleep from the weekend. On Monday, Brooke took an (almost) 4 hour nap in the afternoon, she has slept until after 10:00 am every morning, and has napped/gone down for bed relatively easily since we've been home.

As much as I'm enjoying the sleeping child that God has given me this summer, I'm already starting to dread what it's going to be like to start waking Brooke for school NEXT MONTH!!

Anywho...

What have we been doing while in recovery?

We've been keeping watch over Pap and Nana's house - they'll be home today! We traveled to the 'hills' in the evenings to check on the weird things that my Dad worries about - freezers, garage heat, door jams, any running water, etc.

Brooke decided to continue her love affair with bubbles...even though Pap wasn't there to see her success!!

"Look at me, Pap!"

I had the brilliant idea to set up Brooke's pool at Nan and Pap's - to beat these awfully hot days, and to have a little bit more swimming privacy. Turns out, we never used it...but it was a great idea.

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My artsy-farty babe is still loving the stickers and other crafts left-over from Benezette...

If I'm being honest, I'll tell you that I've actually hidden these stickers because I'M SO SICK OF CLEANING THEM UP!!

The recovery process has not been helped by this insane heat wave we're having, so we headed to Michelle's pool again today for some swimming and fun with friends... I'm beginning to LOVE these days with the girls (and Caleb!)

Brooke used a new floating device that I didn't catch any pictures of... She's learning slowly to not fear the water, and this floatie seemed to help! I'll try to snap a few pictures of all 3 kids wearing their floaties soon!

Brooke finally got up enough courage to jump on Malaina's trampoline! So funny to watch little legs jump! She talked about this toy the rest of the evening...she told Zig about "jump, jumping..."