Summer Fun Part 2

Here is what we have been up to during the first half of August...

We babysat for our nieces on Scott's side Kate and Sophia at my parents house. Here is Kate playing in the pool.

Throwing water balloons at Scott

Sophia

Kate showing the girls the worm she found.  She named him Michael, after her father.

Cool girls

Linnea, Kristin (our cousin) and I hosted a baby shower for Jenny, Kristin's older sister.  She is due in October and having a boy!  This is a new concept for our family of girls so it should be a lot of fun!

Jenny, Nancy (the proud Grandma-to-be) and Kristin

The cousins

Nancy, Jenny and Ruth (Kevin's mom)

Grandma, Julie and my mom

Eric and 2 of his friends have been working on a movie for over a year and last weekend they had a premiere.  They rented the Wilmette theatre and it was so fun to see what they have been working on.

The sisters waiting for Eric to arrive.

Here he is!!

There were even Chicagoland celebrities that came!  To the left of Eric is one of the Smith brothers from Walter E. Smith.  There were 2 out of the 3 there.  Actually, one of the 3 guys who made the film was his son.  They used the furniture warehouse as the setting for the movie.

The three directors!

Here they are at the end with the actors.  The movie is called Furnished and it was actually really good.  They are now going to enter it into film festivals.  Good luck guys!!

Siblings

Heading out to play group.  This is in front of our condo.

Caroline blowing raspberries and Addison finding it amusing

This squirrel kept coming around and looking at us.

Sonja and Gwen "taking a nap" with the girls

Their new thing...standing by themselves while holding onto something!  Here is Caroline.  They still need to be supervised but they can stand there for a little while.  Now they just need to get balancing down.

You would think Addison is crawling in the picture but she's not.  They are very close!  They often get on all fours, rock back and forth for a while and then get frustrated.  Any day now (I have been saying that for a week or so now).

Here is Addison standing

More bath pictures

Caroline is definitely getting curious about what is above her.  She is now reaching for things higher up.  Will she be pulling herself up onto things soon????

Some other fun developments that I don't have pictures of is that they both clap and Addison started giving me kisses this morning!  A bit wet but very cute :)  Caroline has also discovered jumping in her exersaucer.  She loves it!