We had some severe weather roll through tonight so we all headed to the basement. Here's Audrey peeking out from her hiding place after a particularly loud clap of thunder. We had 3 or 4 tornado warnings and lots of hail but nothing as serious as the Windsor tornado two years ago.
We spend a lot of time holding Shannon because we know soon enough we'll have to get tough and have her go to sleep on her own. For now we are enjoying rocking her to sleep and holding her in our arms while she naps.
Shannon is a good sleeper. Even though we often rock her to sleep and hold her, she stays asleep when we put her down in her crib or the co-sleeper. She's up to occasional 4-5 hour stretches of sleep at night, though most of the time the magic number is 3 hours and she wants some food.
Deborah was watching Shannon and decided to take the kids-ALL the kids, to the library. Erin, as you can see, ended up sitting on the stroller handles. Grady and Shannon were snug and shaded in the double stroller.
Eric's favorite treat and traditional birthday "cake." Erin was in charge of putting the candles on!
Erin helping Eric blow out the candles.
We celebrated Eric's birthday a second time on the weekend with this cake. No, he's not 40 but sometimes we give him a hard time about being so "mature" for his age.
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haha - love the 40th cake. Too funny. We let Grace sleep with us until she wasn't sleeping as well in our arms as she would in her bed. It was such a short sweet time in her life, treasure her!
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