Over the weekend we went to the pool to kick-off summer. Addie loves the pool and now that she's a bit older we are working on blowing bubbles and putting her face in the water. She likes to stand on the side and jump into her Daddy's arms after we say "ready, set..." and then she says "go"! 
It's rather ironic that we live in a nation of 7,100 islands and we have to go to the local outdoor sporting goods store to play in the sand. A friend tipped us off to this fun play area. We took Adelaide to the indoor sandbox over the weekend and she was in heaven. The big excitement was uncovering two marbles in the sand, burying them, and then finding them again; over and over. Being that it was a sandbox we knew there wasn't any nasty trash in the sand but it didn't prevent the sand from infiltrating her diaper. 
Right now this photo sums up our progress potty training. Adelaide sits on the potty before bath time and possibly other times during the day while we sing this silly song Justin made up (lots of versus with the words potty, pee pee, poo poo, bum, flush, bye bye...etc). She sings along with us but so far no more luck with going on the potty. I guess we are working on the routine, she's good at the wipe and flush part.
A few of the ladies from Justin's office threw a lovely baby shower for me yesterday. There were even pedicure/manicures for all the ladies. The food was delicious and the cake was beautiful (and delicious). Everyone was extremely generous with gifts. It was nice to receive some pretty little girl clothes since the gender of our little bundle was leaked this time around. I brought my camera so I could share the shower with everyone who couldn't be here for it. I love the picture of my friend Sunny and I. She's having her little boy about a month after me. Be careful drinking the water over here. Pregnant is catching in Manila. I am going to try to take a few pictures of some of the little outfits we received for Bella. She's going to be a well dressed little monkey. After I got home, Addie helped me take apart the diaper cake and put on her "world's best big sister" t-shirt we received. 
Here I am at 30 weeks. We've settled on the name Arabella Jun for our new daughter. (I hesitate to announce the name because you always hear praise and disgust. So if you love it; by all means let us know. If you hate it; keep your comments to yourself). Justin has officially picked out both Adelaide and Arabella; both from books he's read (Adelaide from Neil Stephenson's Baroque Cycle and Arabella from Susanna Clark's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell). Arabella hit me the same at Adelaide. At some point in the pregnancy this baby just became my little Bella. I can't picture her name being anything else. So everyone asks how we decided on it and in some ways I feel like she picked her name more than me and Justin choosing. 
Lucy gets zero air-time on the blog these days so I thought I'd post my new favorite pictures of our dog. She's a faithful friend and the "girls" fight like sisters. Lucy is never far from Addie and I when we are playing, usually she's right there with her ball begging us to take a moment to throw it for her. Sometimes she cuddles up with the baby dolls like in this picture. One of Addie's new favorite games is to throw all the couch cushions on the floor and then jump or dive into them. Lucy loves this game too since it's abandoned as soon as it's started and she gets to curl up on the cushions that are left in the aftermath of the toddler tornado.
I had forgotten that Megan mentioned a Valentines box was coming our way, so when it arrived this week we were extra surprised. Inside were lots of goodies plus a beautiful homemade toy for Addie. Crafty Aunt Megan scores major points again with her niece. This time Megan made a dog house full of dogs and all their accesories. There is also one cat which likes to hang out in the tree. It's titled "Puppy Playtime". Addie immediately started playing with the dogs and it's been played with every day since the box came. I told Megan she should market her ideas to Melissa & Doug. Then on second thought all the homemade touches are what make her gifts so unique and special. A major toy manufacturer would ruin that homemadeness of the toy. Thank you Megan for the box and for all the time and love you put into Addie's gift. 
