Ainsley Marin is 6 months old!  She just had her 6 month check up and is measuring at the top of the charts for height and weight.  So much for Auntie Kelly thinking we don't feed this one enough!  Still no signs of teeth and not interesting in crawling yet, just happy as a clam to sit around and then roll to whatever it is she wants.  She's very aware of her surroundings and when it's time for nap or bed, she instinctively starts to cry as we reach the middle of the stairs to the bedroom, she knows what's coming...

Aidan Kane is 2 years old!  He loves helping daddy with the yard and loves the "mow lawner" as he says.  He has also become interested in the weather each day and insists on seeing the weather.com radar map ("I wanna see rain map" he says every morning). At night after we put him down to bed, he's begun to come out of his room, stand at the top of the balcony and sing the Twinkle Little Star song at the top of his lungs.  So cute, it's hard to get mad at him.  We started the kid's swimming lessons in the pool this week and he did great.  He was going under water and didn't even realize it.  We just had his two year doctor's visit.  Measured in at the 50th% for height and weight, average on the charts, but not average to us!  Everyone at the office couldn't believe how much of a conversationalist he was for a two year old.  His terrible two's have hit with an attitude "Mommy, don't look at me!" when he's in a bad mood and egging on and instigating his sisters all day long.  Now, in addition to Keeley and Kaelin, he too is very picky about what he wears.  It's sometimes a struggle in the morning because he's so choosy about his clothes and colors - "I want blue color" he insists (whether it's playing with Lego's or choosing a freezer pop).

Kaelin Avery is 3 years and 3 months. Her favorite song, which we tivo'd on MTV so she can keep seeing is the Plain White T's "Hey there Delilah" ( http://www.plainwhitets.com/ ). Every time we play it she wants to know why the man is sad and why his girlfriend is in New York City--she's very concerned about him :-).  The band is playing at a few local parks in the next few weeks.  Maybe we'll take her to her first concert :-)  She loves swimming lessons, the water has been pretty warm even on cooler days, about 80 with the new solar cover we have on it.  Both she and Keeley can touch the bottom of the shallow end of the pool with their feet and walk across from side to side this year.  Very exciting for them, nerve racking for us as they become less inhibited by the pool.

Keeley Shea is 4 years and 5 months old.  Definitely our water bug this year, she wants to head in the pool no matter the weather.  Gymnastics summer program starts next week. She can't wait, she's been bored the past couple of weeks since most of her activities have ended.  She loves the great weather we've been having and finding new adventures outside.