By August, we were really confident in Ellie's swimming abilities.
August 8th was the Midsummer Night's Run. Ellie ran the Fastest Kid in Town portion. We think the sprint is really not her event, she's more of a cross-country girl :-) She runs a distance longer than this to school every morning. Love the look on her face as the crosses the finish line.
August 9th was Pete's thirty-fifth birthday. We went to the pool - shocker, I know. Pete had requested a cheesecake, so I baked a turtle cheesecake on Saturday night. (Probably while they were at the race, I don't remember.)
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| Birthday-sized burger. |
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| traveling in style |
August 17th was Ellie's "official" first day of Pre-K. She is in the Dove room for Morning Enrichment, and, after lunch, the Blue Jay room for Pre-K. As such, she no longer takes an afternoon nap on school days. This has led to some rough evenings at our house. But here she is, pleased as can be to move-on-up at school.
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| What a difference a year makes. (I call that her Cousin Ben face on the right.) |
August 17th was also my birthday. But alas, it was a workday, so no trip to the pool for me. However, I was able to take a long lunch, and Pete took me to get a pedicure. He also got one himself - it was the best gift, so entertaining! When I got home from work, Pete had picked up the girls and made me a flamingo cake that we enjoyed after dinner. It was a nice evening.
School had started, we had family photos on the calendar, so it was time for haircuts. A long overdue trim for Ellie, and Caroline's first-ever cut! We went to our favorite hairdresser - Ms. Stephanie! She's at a new salon now, but thanks to Facebook, I found her in less than thirty minutes.
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| Showing sister how it's done. |
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| Waiting her turn. |
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| Such a big girl! |
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| All done! Both were perfectly well-behaved. |
August 22nd was also the Chevy Chase Street Fair. This is usually a great evening of dancing, eating, and drinking with other families from our neighborhood. This year, however, there was a food festival on the other side of town, and most of the food trucks from years past had gone over there. But we walked around the corner to Athenian Grill and had a nice dinner on their patio. Then we saw our friends the Frederick's while we were getting ice cream. So we chatted with them for a little bit and headed back home. On our way out, the band covered a few Rolling Stones songs, so the girls had a dance break.
Everyone has always said, if you live in Lexington long enough, you will develop allergies. I've lived here thirteen years, and it seems that is the magic number for me. I have lost my voice twice since Memorial Day, and both times seem to be allergy/post-nasal drip related. I had been scheduled to sing an offeratory at church on the 23rd, but was losing my voice the Wednesday before. By Sunday I could barely phonate. So my live-in understudy sang instead! Here's a pic of Pete singing his first-ever non-karaoke solo.
Caroline decided she wanted ALL the children's activity bags.
Monday the 24th I took off work early because.....Cassidy was in town!! She had a session in the afternoon and then met us at the Arboretum at 5:30pm. Ellie was in rare form that evening, but, of course, Cassidy got some (more than 100) amazing shots. I'll share them in a later post.
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| Even her selfies seem professional. |
By the end of the evening, Caroline was an old pro at sipping mimosas and eating bread in her croquet whites.
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