Goodbye to Summer!

We spent most of Labor Day weekend at Sarah's grandparents cottage. It's about 40 minutes north of Grand Rapids. The girls had fun playing with their cousins. Abby loves to go sailing and she also tried tubing, but didn't like that as much! On Sunday night we had a fire and the kids made smores and had fun throwing sticks and leaves in the fire. The cottage was cleaned up and everything put away until next summer!!

One of the girl's cousins, Austin, was in town last week. We took the kids to the Grand Rapids Children's museum. They had a lot of fun playing in the "construction zone" and on Clifford. They we able to make their own crayons and placemats and received a free Clifford book.

Olivia is learning to eat more solid foods now and loves to sit in her highchair and watch her sisters eat dinner. Hopefully they'll teach her only good table manners, Ha!! She is full of smiles and is learning how to sit up now.

Abby is 3 1/2 years old, she'll be 4 in the beginning of October. She's going to be starting preschool this fall and is excited about that. She is still the quiet one, well atleast when she's in public, but loves to talk at home. She loves to help Daddy around the house and yard. She's a good big sister, and very protective of Brooklynn and Olivia.

Olivia is 4 1/2 months old now. She is much smaller than our other girls were at this age, almost 3 lbs less than they were, but she sure is strong. She loves to stand on our laps and is rolling over. She cut her first tooth when she was only 3 1/2 months old!! She was very colicky her first few months, but has turned into a different baby these past few weeks. She loves to smile now and loves to watch her two older sisters run around the house!!!

Brooklynn had her 2nd birthday this July. We had her party at a local park. She had a lot of fun and enjoyed all of her gifts and her Nemo Cake!!! She is a very talkative 2 year old and says things that make us crack up sometimes. She loves playing with Abby and trying to do everything her big sister does.

This is a recent picture of our three girls. Abby is 3 1/2, Brooklynn is 2 and Olivia is 4 months. Abby loves to be the big sister and helps out a lot with the baby. Brooklynn is still full of smiles, but is proving to be a very independant 2 year old. Olivia had a rough first 3 months, being very colicky, but is doing so much better now.