Melting Pot and More!

Katie had her Sweet 16 Birthday Party on Thursday night at the Melting Pot with 5 friends. They all had a great time. It was so much fun to listen to them interact with each other. Really takes you back to high school. She has a great group of friends right now and a sweet boyfriend named Teddy. They all dressed up and we drove them over there. We were there for like 3 hrs and they talked the entire time. We sat at a table for two beside them.

Irelynn stayed with her Pappa while we were at dinner. She did great. She has started crying when we leave, so I made Travis take her. She and Pappa played in her toy car and really had a great time. She is starting to doing so many things. Everyday it's something different. Like right now, she is sitting in her little chair singing along with the Micky Mouse theme song as she watches cartoons. We went to the pool yesterday and dunked her head. She loved it! She also crawled up the netting into the playhouse at the pool (with a little help). Sleeping is better. Wed and Thurs night she slept all night and the last two nights, she just woke up once or twice. She has started brushing her hair when I hand her a brush and she can point to her hair, eyes, nose, and teeth. What a smart girl!

Saturday night Travis and I took Irelynn and Hunter to chapel hill to eat and walk around on Franklin St. We got ice cream at Ben and Jerry's. Irelynn loved every minute. She walked and squealed. She was precious.

Lately...

Lately things have been really busy. I'm working way more than I want too. Travis' job is getting really busy, Katie adds on more activities everyday, and Irelynn is growing and learning so fast.

Katie has been volunteering at Rex hospital in Cardiac and Endoscopy. She is loving the excitement of the hospital and being able to help out the patients. She and I have been volunteering a little bit with the SPCA and Ronald McDonald house for NCL, our community service club. This past weekend, we had Katie's family "Sweet 16." Later this month, she is planning a birthday dinner with friends at the Melting Pot.

Irelynn is doing all kinds of new things. She is great a shape games, like putting shapes through holes on her toys. She has started playing pretend with things. When I'm cooking dinner, she stirs her Cheerios or Goldfish or air in one of the pots and then pretends to put it on plates. She also loves to feed us her food. She has started singing a couple of words or humming along with her favorite shows on TV, which I think is precious! Her teeth are coming in and really bothering her. She has had a couple of really rough nights, but I think they have broken through and are bothering her less. I give her frozen waffles and cucumbers, and frozen go-gerts all the time. I'm most proud that she has started saying "peese" and "thank u" when prompted.

She has done a few funny/embarrasing things. I'll just touch on the highlights. We were eating dinner at a friend's house. When we went upstairs, she leaned over and spit over the inside balcony. That's when I learned that she and her daddy do that all the time off of the back porch;)

What a great week and weekend. Grana and Pop visited us this week. Then we spent July 4th at the Puff's house. Irelynn, Hunter, Travis and I went to the pool. Irelynn did great in the water. I can already tell she is going to be a little fish. She loved walking, splashing, and playing. She and Hunter had a blast together. She has also started rolling and catching a ball.