I have received so many great gifts and words of encouragement from everyone since Henri has been born. Thank you to everyone!!! Sometimes all you need is a little ‘I’m thinking of you’ email or phone call to make your day even brighter.

Yesterday I received another super sweet gift in the mail from the lovely Jennifer from Epoch Vintage (amazing shop downtown… right next to Anthology).

It’s a beautiful handmade outfit from the 1940’s and a wonderful bar of soap for mama. Thank you Jennifer!!! I want to find a lovely vintage children’s hanger so I can display the outfit in Henri’s room. The soap came at a perfect time too because we are revamping our bathroom and have been without a shower for almost a week. I had almost forgotten how to take a bath!

Besides trying to squeeze in some work between Henri time (which is all the time… I can’t stop holding and kissing him!!!… I know, I’m ’spoiling him’… whatever!), the girls and I have been busy registering for school and they have been doing tons of playing with friends, sleepovers, and swimming. We need to try to savor every last minute of this crazy summer. There have been days lately when I have definatley lost focus of what these moments are all about. It is soo easy to get wrapped up in ‘there isn’t enough time for… or I am too tired… or *insert* whine whine whine whine… Exhaustion can creep up and make me not a very nice person sometimes!

The girls registered for fourth and fifth grade. Yikes!!! Next year Darby will be in middle school! One nice thing is that it is across the street from our house, but when did that happen??? She is going to be in safety patrol and strings this year too so we get to experience the violin. I played piano for years and years and desperately have wished we could get one so the girls (probably just Darbs… Zoe is holding out for drums…. triple yikes) could experience music. The violin is a nice start though. Hopefully one day we can still get a small piano.

I, of course, have a few more Henri pics to show. The first one is Mr. Bright Eyes hanging out this morning with me and the second, though a bit out of focus, was just too cute. My two favorite men, ape man and monkey baby getting in some cuddle time!!

We have Jerome’s company picnic tomorrow and the rest of the weekend will be spent on making more coasters and working on the bathroom. Well, and of course kiddo time!! Hopefully the weather will hold out and there will be much more swimming, biking, playing, and holding tiny baby time. Henri is bigger already! Someday I will be registering him for school…

Have a great weekend!!