River days.

We love it when Brian can join us at the river!

The river is our happy place.  Even this girl was happy—it might have been that she was outside, or that Brian came home early to join us, or because she took an almost-five hour nap (!) this morning, or that she is finally (finally!!!) sleeping through (through, like we seriously don’t even go in one time, through) the night…probably a combination of all of the above.  We are really, really enjoying our happier Georgia!

Luckily our happy place is only 5 minutes from home.  I’m feeling an urgency to squeeze every last drop out of our last time ever (ever!) with all my little girls home (besides summers) before we start the whole school thing.  Five years wasn’t long enough with that cute little girl holding my right hand.

Someone formed rocks in the river to form a shallow pool that I love for our girls to play in.  Hattie is sitting on the edge of it.

Another visit to the river—this time with friends:

I love the noise Georgia makes with her tongue (picture on left)—she makes the same sound and does it in the same side-to-side motion that Elna did at this age.

While Georgia and I hung out with Jillian and Katie, all of the other kids hardly touched the water—instead the played in the sand cliffs behind us.

I loved that they played so well together for hours and hours.  We were there for about 4 hours and they were happy the whole time, climbing and getting dirty in the sand.  I love that my girls love my girlfriends’ kids!