We’ve been home from our fun vacation for a while now and are back to our normal schedule. Well, what is normal anyway?? Not waking up with the jungle and the monkeys at 4 AM is feeling pretty normal but not getting to go to the beach everyday makes our memories all that much more magical and special. We’ve had a lot of happenings lately to fill you in on. The day after we returned from Costa Rica Mirabelle turned a big Two years old! If you ask when her birthday is she will tell you that it is on August 2nd. She may also sing you her version of happy birthday, much to our amusement. She sings happy birthcake to you. So cute! When asked what kind of cake she wanted she told us an ice cream cone cake. Josh had the honor of making her an ice cream cone cake that she of course adored. So did all who had the pleasure of eating a piece!

I had to have surgery on an umbilical hernia that came along during my pregnancy with Mirabelle and had only gotten progressively worse until we accepted the inevitable. It had to be fixed! I wasn’t allowed to lift M & J for an entire month. No more than 5 pounds. That was laughable, as of course I had to lift Jasper sometimes. The no lifting rule was really a concern and so we hired a nanny to come help out for the month. At first I thought I’d love it and would have a hard time not having help at the end of the month. Instead, I had a harder time not being able to care for my cutie pies all the time and I look forward to taking them out and about without having to have help. I was so thankful for the help I needed and much fun was had by all. I even snuck away for a few solo beach getaways which seemed too good to be true! Our nanny April said that she loved helping to do creative play. I wondered what exactly she meant and we sure did find out.

We also had fun spending time with our friends Rich and Emaly and their son Ben, who is only 6 weeks younger than Jasper. Josh has been friends with Rich since he was a baby, yet we somehow we managed to get a pic of the moms and sons instead of the dads. Next time.

We got to go meet Josh’s sister KC and her husband Ashton at the Crepes Cafe and went for a walk to Burgess Park. We love going to Burgess Park these days. It has what we oh so need- shade! And a play structure and swings of course.

Mirabelle loves going for nature walks around our neighborhood to find nature and rocks to paint.

We up and went to Big Sur a couple of weekends ago. I love road trips. I especially love driving out to Big Sur. Highway 1 is incredible. So is our favorite restaurant, Nepenthe, on the cliffs overlooking the gorgeous view of the ocean. We’re lucky that M & J like cruising along with us.

We brought Mira along to a doctors appointment and turned it into a fun date. She jumped for joy! We went for pizza and ice cream, the park and also found her a new teddy bear. Poor little baby bear was lost in El Salvador and Mira was reminding me on a daily basis that she needed a new bear. After she had chosen her bear and was asked what she wanted to name him she paused only a second before saying, “El Salvador!”

We found an outdoor kitchen at a yard sale a couple of weeks ago. This was Mirabelle’s initial reaction. Do you think she likes it?

Jasper is successfully able to get into anything and everything he wants. Every once in a while he manages to get himself stuck. Mirabelle is getting better and better at reading her brother stories. Other than steam rolling him every once in a while she really is super sweet to her little brother.

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