Riley and Avery

I know that I haven't blogged in a long time. Giving myself a slap on the hand. It's been so busy around here that I've been trying to go to bed early. But decided I'll blog tonight.

We went to Prospect Lake at Memorial Park today with Amy and Abby. The girls really had a lot of fun romping around in the lake totally buck naked. In fact, a woman asked us if we were German, or just liberal Americans. She said that she is from Germany and they are a lot more "free" there. So at least it wasn't a negative comment. It was really cute seeing three butts splashing in the lake with the mountains in the background. Riley is really strange like that, she'll swim in the ocean and lakes and play in rivers, but fountains and spray grounds? No thanks. Oh, and Avery is definitely an absolute slide junky.



I think that Riley and Abby are learning how to be in such close quarters together. I think...when they do clash, it can be pretty bad, but they are starting to set boundaries ("I need my privacy" has been heard a lot around here today) and avoid conflicts. Avery is so jealous of Abby being near me or getting my attention. Not to mention if Abby is actually touching me. When I'm in Maryland I'll have to run off and hide if I want to hold little William.

Tomorrow we are planning on going to the zoo, so we'll see if that pans out. It's been really scorching hot here and the sun is so strong at this altitude. And the zoo is a mountain zoo so it's uphill a lot of the way. We'll see what the weather is like. The zoo is definitely better when it's overcast or a little rainy.

We went to the Garden of the Gods yesterday. Amy's friend Allyson was here from Boulder (originally from MD, she worked at Borders with us) so we went with her and the girls liked running around and climbing the rocks and playing in the dirt. Of course, it was really hot and shade was scarce and far between, but we managed with a lot of water.

I think I've spoken to everyone lately, so nothing I write is new, so I'll just make this one all about the pictures...

And a gratuitous cute picture of Avery with a Q-tip in her nose. This is she smile I get when I ask her for one. She stuck a Q-tip in her nose and just resumed playing like it was totally normal: