A Nice Family Day

I absolutely love Sundays - especially when I am able to have a nice, quiet day with the family. Mike has been working every Saturday, so it's really nice when the four of us can hang out, be together and catch up on the simple things.

This morning, Mike surprised me by packing breakfast and a blanket, and taking us to the park for an early picnic. It was a beautiful day and we had so much fun. The girls played - and posed - on the swings...







... went on the slides...





... until Raquel didn't want to slide anymore...



... posed for me in the tunnel...

And I took some cute pictures of the girls with dad.





One side note... Raquel will have a speech session/evaluation tomorrow at Rady Children's in Oceanside. I really don't know what to expect but am told that this particular therapist - although very new to the group - specializes in preschool aged children. I'm assuming this means she'll have toys to entice Raquel with. Mike and I have been noticing more speech coming out of Raquel, so I'm very excited to finally get her back in regular sessions. We see her neurologist again in January and I am going to be pushing for weekly sessions until then. Wish us luck. I'll take pictures if they let me. It's really fascinating to watch the therapy process and see how they are able to extract language from her. But I still wish we had Mary for speech therapy again...



... but I promise to go to tomorrow's session with an open mind. :-)