girls, girls, girls

This past week was full of girls for us! If ever Pops wished for a little girl, he had his wish come true this week.

It started off with picking up the two littlest girls while in Montgomery and making a special visit to the birthday girl, Alex.

It was kind of fitting for Lolli and Pops to give Alex something in the "horse" category. I think she liked the barbie horse that she can bathe and groom. The cabbage patch doll with all sorts of hair pulls did not thrill her as much. But then again, she has been a little overwhelmed with gifts lately :)

She is one year older than Annie and they have a good time together, although Alex loves being the older cousin to Lily Kate even more so. She has always been a little mother and Lily Kate seems like a baby doll to her.
here they are in Alex's playroom playing "let's stroll the baby". Now that LK is on the move so much, Alex had a harder time babying her :) Annie was willing though.
All 3 girls will always be our baby dolls though. We have had a lot of fun taking care of these girls separately and together at different times over the last 5 years.
speaking of being on the move, LK had a big time on the piano at Alex's house. Her parents should sign her up for lessons now!

Our next phase this week of enjoying girls, girls, girls was having my dear friend Sadler and her 2 granddaughters visit us while Annie and Lk were staying with us. We took the girls to "the bouncey house" and they had a very big time. AH and CC are 2 darling little blondes, just like their grandmother and their mother. They were easy to spot in the bouncey house full of kids but mine were not quite so easy. A and AH held hands coming down together on this slide. Can't tell you how that thrilled their 2 grandmothers who spent all their childhoods holding hands and laughing together through many a good time.


They ran us ragged for sure keeping up with them bouncing from inflatable to inflatable but it was totally worth our time to see these smiles and laughter.

It did not take LK long to figure out that she could do just as the big girls were doing too. I hesitated but there was no stopping her and after all she does have red hair and a strong determination to succeed :)




After they literally wore themselves out sliding and climbing and Lolli and Say Say's tongues were hanging out, we took them back to our house and fed them and then they had a good time all playing together. Sadler and I were finally able to have a conversation for the first time all morning. It seems surreal to be sitting with her and watching our girls together in our grandmothering stage.
We tried to get all 4 in a picture but no such luck with all these ages :)

you will find this hard to believe but these are the only pictures of lollipops I took all week! (They were also the only lollipops we had all week:)
the girls clicked their lollipops as if they are in the lollipop club-I promise we did not tell them to do that and they have not seen each other in a long time...

and here they are 2 years ago doing the same thing and neither grandmother has promoted this cute gesture. How fun is that for a grandmother named Lolli!