Summer Vacation - June 2010

I realized on my post about a month ago I said I'd have more vacation pictures, so here they are. These were taken at Buckroe Beach in Hampton, VA, outside our vacation condo in Williamsburg and at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.

Mary and Mommy

Contemplative Sophie

Father's Day - picnic at Buckroe Beach

The "lighthouse" at Buckroe Beach

Sophie on the playground in our vacation "backyard"


Mary


A big hug from Cookie Monster!

Sharing secrets with Ernie

Playing Dress Up

Peter should win some type of "father for girls" award - he took them to ToysRUs recently and bought a trunk full of dress up clothes. They have been enjoying them and modeled a few looks for me the other day. Mary wanted pictures outside, but Sophie said it was too hot.

This is a cross between Snow White and cheerleader look for Mary (wearing Snow White heels).




This was supposed to be a picture of Sophie - Mary ran in front of the camera just when I was pressing the button.

Fairy Princess Sophie

Mary, don't make me use this wand.

Fortunately the new is starting to wear off of the trunk of dress up clothes. It was every morning Sophie would wake up and first thing out of her mouth - "I want to be a fairy princess!" After about a week of this I successfully convinced her that fairy princesses have to use the potty first thing when they get up before putting on wings (and sometimes the wings are forgotten after the excitement of flushing).

Now that I've turned to the subject of potty training, I can tell a story of wearing big girl pants on "Daddy Day" (when I am at work and girls are with Peter). Sophie had an accident at NAPA but averted crisis. She left Peter at the counter, then came back and told him she pee-peed in her pants. Then she took him to the spot where she had pulled down her pants and peed on the floor, right beside an orange cone. So Peter just went back to the counter and asked if they had any paper towels, wiped it up and the NAPA clerks were none the wiser. After hearing the story, I told him about an orange cone at Pen Park playground where the bouncy airplane used to be. The girls asked what it was and I told them that the cone meant caution and to stay away from that spot. Could that have influenced her decision to leave the puddle there? I like to think so.