Swing Ding

We had a great weekend on Lookout Mountain for the Swing Ding.  What, you may ask, is the Swing Ding?  It's the yearly golf tournament at LMGC and Michael invited one of his oldest friends, Camp Craig, to play with him. I love that the family is included in 3 meals a day, and you can ride around and cheer on your man.

Camp and Virginia Craig

The Huffaker family at family night

Allie and Harper also got to sport their bathing suits in the baby pool on my parents' patio and at our neighbors' pool.

Allie in the baby pool.

Can't beat beer at the pool!

Aunt T-Lo is such a bad influence!

I must admit it has been a tough week since we returned.  I don't know if traveling is really starting to throw off their schedule or they are just in a transition stage.  Allie has been very impatient at meal time and Harper is acting like she has bad dreams at night.  Harper keeps falling asleep during her last feeding despite my best efforts and then when I put her down, she screams like a banshee.  For two nights we rescued her after about 20 minutes of screaming, but last night we had to let her cry it out and it took almost 2 hours.  I'm glad I had somewhere else to be and Michael had to sit there and listen.  Allie yells for her food until the moment I get it to her mouth and then I cannot shovel it in fast enough.  She does not want to pause between bites for Harper to have some.  This too shall pass!

On a more positive note, when it is not close to mealtime or bedtime, they laugh and smile and happily bang and chew on their toys.  Allie is officially mobile and is so close to crawling.  She travels at about a yard per minute with her army crawl.  Harper spins in circles with her belly button as the center-point.  When Allie is doing something really fun like tearing up magazines, Harper bangs her arms and legs on the ground and longs to join her but still hasn't figured out how to move forward.  We have also transitioned to a 4 milk feedings a day instead of 5 or 6.  Such a relief!