Summer-lovin'

Whereas this song is not supposed to be about your baby girl, it's what I thought of when I ran across these pictures from Addie Kate this summer.



She and I just took it easy, from the second half of June until I had to go back to work. I meant, I wasn't leaving the house again for another out-of-town trip unless I had to! We enjoyed traveling SO much during the first half of summer, that she and I both were just content to be at home. Don't get me wrong. We LOVE to travel and had some great vacations and trips, but we all know, traveling with a toddler is far from relaxing!

So, for the rest of the summer... We slept late. We went to story time each week at the library. I was sad on the last day though, because she'll be too old for "Mother Goose on the Loose" next summer, and we'll have to move up in age in our story time adventures. We went to the downtown library, which was so much more fun than our local library. We shopped and shopped and shopped some more. Sometimes she even enjoyed it - ha! We went to the park and the pool. We danced and sang. We played outside (mostly after Daddy got home in the evenings because it was so darn hot). She loved the few days that we went to my school or "Mommy's Cool" as she called it. She thinks she owns the place already. We sang our ABC's and nursery rhymes. We counted to 16. We tried learning our colors, but are still working on that. We met friends for lunch. We read and read and read some more. We even did take one last out-of-town trip to the Georgia Aquarium and American Girl Place in Atlanta! The places on my list that we did not go were the zoo (again too hot!), the cupcake cafe (but we did visit it at the Saturday Market, so that will do for now), the brand-new Children's Museum (waiting for the crowds to die down - and I figured that'd be a great wintertime activity), and the pottery place (again, I thought I might postpone until winter).

I do have a few more summer activities planned for us, along with as many more trips to the pool as we can squeeze in.

I'm already missing my angel every day, but I know she is so happy to be back with her friends, and has already started learning new things. We are already on a better schedule and get more things accomplished with me being back at work! I'm sure that's opposite for how it should be!

Mostly though, as I remember our summer, I remember how much fun it was to spend each day with my girl. I love you my Addie-girl!