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Summer in the beautiful dress Camilla got her

Santa Monica Beach

dress-up

Ezra has always loved playing dress up with Chloe, however, until recently, he only had Chloe's princess dresses to play in. A few months ago he borrowed a friends Superman costume and literally wore it everyday. My mum finally bought him his own Superman AND Batman costume and he absolutely lives in them. Chloe loves when I paint her face like a cat or make her a 'princess sparkle fairy', which is her request of a heart on one side of her face, a flower on the other side and lipstick and eyeshadow. She also loves the elephant suit Grandma sent her.

Make-shift movie theater

After a day of shopping, craft making (which included a lot of glue on the wooden table) and swimming, we all needed a rest. Bran made Chloe and Ezra a little movie theater/tent and they have been happily watching Toy Story and snacking on popcorn ever since. Thanks to Bran's creation, we have all enjoyed some much needed peace and quiet!

Life goes on...

My world has been a bit of a blur in which all I really do is breastfeed Summer, hold Summer, wake up at all hours of the night with Summer, bathe Summer, stare at Summer and so on. This past week, I made a huge effort to force myself back into somewhat of a more normal/balanced life. We had a fun week - went to ride the horses at Griffith Park and ride the train. Of course I had my Mum with me and she watched Chloe and Ezra while I fed Summer- but at least I was there!!! We all went to Dave's for a pool day which is always fun AND - Ezra learned to swim on his own!!! Just 2 1/2 years old and he can swim. I am very proud. Both Chloe and Ezra are a little nutty though. They jumped off the bridge (which is probably 8 feet above the water) into the pool and swam to the side of the pool all by themselves! Chloe had a princess party to go to and I must say she looked beautiful all dressed up. Era is still wearing the superman costume daily and still wears a paper towel cape at church in the absence of his costume. He is in a REALy adorable stage where everything he does is cute- (except his abnormally LOUD voice when Summer is asleep). I have to say that baby #3 is proving to be the easiest transition yet, but I'll get back to you when my mum is gone in 3 weeks and I'll let you know if I still feel the same way when I am on my own:)

WHAT WOULD I DO WITHOUT MY MOTHER???

EZRA WAS A TROOPER AND RODE THE HORSE BUT HE WASN'T SO SURE ABOUT IT.

YOU CAN DO IT CHLOE!

YAY CHLOE!

This is the bridge my little 2 and 4 year olds jumped off!!!

Princess Party Chloe

Summer's not so sure about the bath yet...

How does Chloe know how to pose? Please don't be a model!!!

My cutie pie xoxox

Binging home Summer

Summer came home when she was just one day old and was welcomed by not only her brother, sister and Nanny- but her cousins Teya and Harper and her Aunt Steph, Aunt Tawny and Uncle Phil and Uncle Dave!!! It was a full house for about a week and I am so grateful to have such a wonderful family who love each other so much. Chloe, Teya and Ezra played so well together and were outside in the backyard for about 10 hours a day making mud pies, swimming in the tiny pool and just being cute little summer kids. We had big family dinners almost every night and mum cooked the most wonderful dinners night after night. Summer's first outing was going down the street to Il Torrito restaurant and it was a major success! The kids surprised us by being really good and Summer slept the entire time in her car seat. It was so nice to get to know Harper after watching her grow on Steph's blog. She had a cold though, so I was a little weary about getting to close as I am paranoid of summer getting sick. Mum sent Steph and I shopping to Forever 21 with $100 each and were instructed to only buy things for ourselves- not our babies. I had Summer and Steph had Harper and it made me wish that we lived closer so that we could do things together all the time. It's now back to being just us and Mum and the house feels very quiet, but i'm sure that will change the second Chloe and Ezra wake up tomorrow.