What a weekend - it sure was memorial!

A lot has been going on!!!!! Not really with the baby, but with the family in general. Having a three day weekend, well, technically it was 4, but Casey was home with us for 3, was super nice. We got a lot done around the house... Casey worked outside and I worked in. I am really amazed at all that I have been getting done lately. I think I am going through some sort of nesting phase at 17 weeks. It's crazy. I've been doing so much and a lot of things that I don't normally do.... like cleaning the centerpiece on the dining room table and vacuuming the stairs. We have a central vac system, which is awesome, and I hadn't been doing more than just the floors because we don't have any attachments. Well, the attachments from our old vacuum fit it, which is super nice because now cleaning stairs and the furniture is super easy and not something that I dread. :)
Sunday night Casey set up the tent and he and Jacqueline camped out for the night. He also got a fire going in our new fire pit, and we all roasted marshmallows and made s'mores. It was really late for the girls, close to 10 before Leah got bed, but it was a lot of fun.
I have also decided that even though there is so much to do here at the house, inside and out, we really need to focus on the girls. We got Jacqueline a big girl bike, with training wheels - she loves going out and playing on it, even though she can't really peddle yet. I told her I would help her ride it on Monday, but I never did. :( So it kind of just came to me that I need to focus on the girls at least one day every weekend, and go out and do something with them... swimming, the zoo, the park, the mountains, something! These are the best times, and we really need to give them well-rounded experiences and new things to do, instead of just hanging out at home all weekend while we get stuff done around the house. The chores and such are always going to be there, but the girls won't! It makes me sentimental just thinking about it.

So word to the wise for all you new moms and future moms..... always make time for the kids, everything else can wait!
Perfect example - on Monday, Leah started saying "hug." It was so cute. I was working around the kitchen, but every time she walked towards me smiling and saying "hug," I stopped what I was doing, sat down, and hugged and kissed the bejeezus out of her. I loved it and so did she!