Laney must have been contemplating the beauty of creation!
After our first two weeks of craziness (Staying up till 3 am for a week trying to get settled, Emmy breaking her finger by smashing it in the stairwell door, orientations and logistics of starting school in 3 different places...) we really seized the chance to take advantage of some beautiful weather over Labor Day weekend. We went to a nature center in Milwaukee and then grabbed a "Hot N Ready" from little Ceasers for a picnic on Lake Michigan ;) The water was COLD, but the girls had a blast playing on the beach and running in the water. (Chloe was actually the first to plunge in in her clothes, as she was balancing on a log and fell in!)


A little covered in sand and seaweed... But I relish the chance to let them play outside at all!
"Mommy, this is the biggest sandbox EVER!"
Some craziness was mixed in in all this fun -- little did we know, Lake Michigan was full of REALLY STICKY, paper mache - type seaweed! Notice how Chloe's hair looks gelled?? If you look closely you can see the little bits of green ALL over and maybe even the overall green tinge :) I washed her hair THREE times, tried to strip it with lemon juice, and eventually just had to spend hours combing out little spinach-y chunks so she didn't smell like dead sea creatures for the first day of school! There were a few tears, but some major laughs! (Emmy's wasn't so bad, and I let Matt deal with his own hair!)

Note the frothey green run-off... after rinse #3! Good times...