Simone is 31 Months Old!

Simone has been spending lots of time outside, with some fun new summer toys...

New water table! We love it when Toys R Us puts great stuff like this for 50% off at the start of the summer!

She loves to help with the hose!

"I do it all myself!"

It's especially fun when Daddy turns the sprinkler on... aka, sprays water out of a bottle on her head!

Just lounging!

She even shares the pool with her brother - way to go, Sistadah!

Our dear friend, Bekah, let us borrow her awesome new bouncy house for a few days! 

We love it when Target puts great stuff like this for 50% off at the start of the summer!

She shared this experience with little bro, too!

Even Auntie Tess got in the action!

A new fun game: getting lifted up and caught in mid-air... while Simone giggles her heart out and Mommy has a heart attack!

Simone is very serious about reading with Car. She got that face from her Papa.

Yay! First braids!!! (Mommy needs some practice!)

She is getting pretty good at bottles... all by herself! The best is that she is still interested in being this close to her little brother! At least once a day, she asks to hold him! Yay!

Yay! No more soother!!! We have been "soozie"-free during naps for months now, but Simone has gone quite a few nights with no "soozie" either! We celebrated with a prize from the Dollar Store; she picked Thomas the Train stamps!

Potty Chart! Isn't Daddy so creative??? Our schedule has been all over the place (and we know it's only going to get busier when we have back-to-back-to-back company in August), so we have not been as diligent with getting rid of diapers. We do make a big deal of it when she makes it to the potty, but we still have a ways to go!

Everybody gets a workout!

Still figuring out her smile!

Quotable Quotes for July:

-As Mommy is leaving her bedroom at bedtime: "Thank you for the nice snuggling... thank you for reading the stories... thank you for the nice singing... thank you for getting my water... thank you for having me, Mommy!" (I don't care if it's a stall tactic - I LOVE IT!!!)