i'm back! in this week's high five for friday.

Well hello, blog. It's nice for me to actually start writing in you again, isn't it? Yeeeeah, I apologize to all my hundreds of followers (ha!) for taking an almost two-week hiatus. You throw in a long weekend beach trip and the Fourth of July and it just took me a few days to get back into the swing of things. So, seeing as it's miraculously Friday once again, here's a look at some of those things that kept me away from you...which unfortunately means they trump blogging on the importance scale. Sorry.

Happy Friday!

1. A Fourth of July evening spent on our deck with a best friend, Sam Adams' Porch Rocker (beer+lemonade=deliciousness), neighbors' fireworks, and silliness.

2. Dallas' new patriotic bandana.

3. Baby Girl FINALLY getting into the whole eating solids routine. It took her three months, but hey, she just likes her milk, alright? She figured out that pears are pretty yummy, so Mommy is mixing those babies with just about everything. And she loves her some puffs. She opens her mouth willingly and 95% of it ends up in her belly and not on everything else. A big step up from force-feeding and pretend gagging. Hallelujah!

4. Babies in blow-up pools.

5. Dune fries on a date with my sister at our favorite beach restaurant. Grandma and Grandpa on baby duty. Sister telling me all about her new love interest (!)