A very busy month

As you may have guessed from the title of this post, we have had a very, very busy month.

Hazel, Turner and I have been helping Mom learn how to be a general contractor. We interviewed lots of painters, floor guys, handymen, landscapers and all kinds of other people and hired about eight of them to help us get our old house in good enough shape to sell. We are almost done with all their work and should be ready for showtime next week. If anyone's looking for a nice three bedroom house in Milwood, give us a call!

Meanwhile, Turner, Hazel and I are getting bigger and funnier every day. Hazel and I have been playing together -- and fighting with each other -- more and more. We've been more imaginative than ever too. We have a bath toy that looks like a fountain and we've been "making applesauce" with it. Hazel's been lying on her tummy in the tub and the other day told Mom she's swimming like a dolphin.

Turner is cooing and smiling more, rolled over once (June 16, but he hasn't done it since) and is getting really big! He is awake more of the time and much more alert than before. He really likes watching the action around him. We can't believe he's three months old already.

Two weekends ago, Aunt Lauren came to visit. We had a blast. We took her to the park, where we've been going almost every weekday morning when we don't have school. We also went to the Austin Zoo, where we had a picnic in the car after visiting all the animals, and to the restaurant Kerbey Lane. She spent some time with us so Mom could work and did some cool crafts with us. We made animals out of clay and painted them after they dried. We had a tough time when she left. Hazel cried almost the whole way home.

We had a blast this weekend. Dad had a 4-day weekend since it was the 4th of July, and we made the most of it. Saturday we had some friends over for lunch and to play in our sprinkler. Sunday we went to a friend's birthday party at Pump it Up, a place where they have lots of inflatable bounce houses and slides. Hazel went down a slide so big, Mom said she'd have been too scared to go down it. We can't believe how fearless Hazel is -- she is like this at the park too. She will only go down the biggest slide she can find. Meanwhile, I've been pretty sensitive to noise lately and didn't love playing at the party but it was fun eating cake at the end.

Sunday night we went to a neighbor's house for a barbeque. We had a blast playing with the other kids in their pools, on a slip n slide, and in their sandbox. Mom and Dad were happy to meet our new neighbors and agreed that they are all very nice and welcoming. Hazel, Turner and I are happy there are lots of other kids around who are good at sharing their cool toys.

Hazel's really been using the potty a lot lately. She even used it at the party Sunday and where we went Monday morning, the blood bank where Dad gives blood. We're all super proud of her.

Today we headed South to San Antonio. I have been telling anyone who will listen for the past few weeks that I wanted to go to back to the San Antonio Children's Museum, and finally Mom and Dad took us down there. We spent a lot of time in the big grocery in the basement, had fun on the airplane and played with about a million Legos before heading back to Austin. Anytime Hazel got on a vehicle, like a boat, train, car or plane, she told us she was going to Costco. We really like the food samples there.

Here's hoping things slow down soon and we can post blogs more regularly. To check out our photos from the past month, click here.