I haven’t updated my blog for awhile and so it seems 2 weekends have passed since I’ve given an update- heaven forbid! Everyone must surely be wondering what in the world the Mellinger crew have been up to since then! 
Two weekends ago was when Kelly, Mark, and Lexi came up to PA to visit the McAdams and Mellingers. They stayed with Carrie and Dakota and I went up Fri night to meet them at a Chinese restaurant for dinner. Chris and Skylar stayed home b/c CHris doesn’t like Chinese and I didn’t feel like dragging 2 kids along by myself. The Nagles also met us for dinner that night so we had quite the group at the restaurant. Here’s a photo of the aftermath of dinner that I quickly snapped:
Saturday during the day the McAdams and Statzs came down to Exton to hang at our house for the day so they could see our new house and meet Dakota again. We ordered food for lunch and dinner and spent the day playing outside on the swingset, inside with all the toys and then took a walk around the circle just before it was getting dark. It was interesting/fun to see all the kids (Lexi- almost 4, Skylar- 2 1/2, Ian- 2) share (or not share as was sometimes the case) the toys and interact A fun day spent catching up with good friends. Thanks for coming to Exton to visit us!!
Lexi using Nittany as a pillow:
Sunday morning we went to the Picture People to have Dakota’s 3mo photo taken. I had bought a Groupon for like $20 or something for about 3 sheets of photos. And I was really going to try and be good and stick to ONLY buying those 3 sheets of photos. But of course the photographer got alot of good photos and I really wanted them all- so I ended up (as usual) just buying the CD. Darnit- I am really weak when it comes to photos and buying them all!! I shared some photos on FB and sent out the album via Kodak Gallery but here’s 1 of the girls:
That following week went quickly as always. I can’t remember anything special that happened. My dad came up Tues AM to take care of Dakota b/c my mom had a church meeting to go to. But then she came up that afternoon and stayed til Thurs. Nothing too exciting with work except that it’s getting busy again b/c we’re doing more testing- hence I haven’t updated my blog b/c I”ve actually been super busy at work.
Friday I decided to go to the mall with the girls so Skylar could play on the playground or just run around the mall and get some energy out (it was too cold outside to take Dakota outside). I thought it wouldn’t be very crowded except for the fact that I forgot that the schools were off Fri and MOn for MLK day. So the mall was more crowded than I expected but luckily it was crowded mostly w/ moms and kids. So Skylar running around wasn’t out of the ordinary. She loves going up and down the escalator but, unfortunately, I brought Dakota’s carseat frame stroller with me- so I took the carseat out and left the stroller at the top of the escalator and went up and down a couple times w/ Skylar before the carseat got too heavy to carry and I told her we were done for now. I should’ve brought the Baby Bjorn for Dakota to be carried in but I wasn’t thinking about escalators. I thought Skylar would play on the playground but it was super crowded with kids and she wanted no part of the crowded playground- so we just walked (or ran in Skylar’s case) around the mall for about 45min and then had lunch at the food court. SHe had a great time people-watching (so did I!). Sometimes Skylar would stand on the front of the stroller and hang on to the carseat (kinda like you’re standing on the front of a grocery shopping cart) but then she’d tell me “I need to run” and step off and start running. If only I had half the energy that little girl has She was pretty pooped after 45min of running/walking around the mall though so it was DEFINITELY time to head home for naptime!
Friday night was the usual Rocco’s pizza and Saturday we went over to the townhouse to get 2 carloads of stuff out of there. Man, we have ALOT more stuff still over there than I thought! I thought we were doing pretty good in getting it all out but there’s still alot of crap 
I only made 1 trip with Chris b/c Skylar’s in a phase right now where she doesn’t like for us to be out of her sight- so when we’d go upstairs or downstairs and she couldn’t see us she’d start crying and crying. So I went home w/ the girls and Chris made 2 more trips back and forth with stuff. Sunday Heather came over to spend time with me and the girls while Chris continued to work on emptying out the townhouse and organizing the basement. We (me, Heather, Skylar, and Dakota) headed out for Chinese for lunch and then home for naptime. Karen made a lasagna for dinner- yum!- and then, before we knew it, the weekend was over. Boo!
On MOnday we just played at home all day. AFter I was done feeding Dakota at about 10:30am I asked SKylar if she wanted to go out to the store or to the bouncy place- but she told me “No, stay here”. Wow- I don’t think she’s ever told me that she wanted to stay at home before! So we stayed home and played with bubble wrap (she had a great time stomping on the bubbles), did some yoga with Sid the Science Kid on TV and she also wanted to put pigtails in my hair like we do for her hair. So I sat on the floor and let her comb my hair and “put 2 tails in” as she said. It was funny b/c at 1 point I turned around to look at her and she had my hair rubberband in her mouth like she sees Mommy doing when I do her hair. She definitely imitates EVERYTHING we do these days. And she’s also using our words against us too- I forget exactly what she said at breakfast this morning but it was definitely something Chris and I tell her alot. I commented to Chris “Jeesh, now she’s using our words against us”
Pop Pop came up last night to stay with Dakota today and then Gramma Bonnie came up at about lunchtime. Chris’ neck has been killing him so I bathed Skylar last night before my dad arrived. My dad got here sometime between 7 and 8 so at 7pm I told Skylar that we had to get a bath before Pop Pop arrived and she was excited to hear that Pop Pop was coming. She started running towards the stairs to go upstairs for her bath but then she had to run back to the family room to tell Chris “My Pop Pop is coming soon!”. Too cute. Don’t worry Gramma Bonnie and Grandmom- she also gets excited when you guys come too. This was just the 1st time that I could remember that she told Chris that so-and-so was coming SOON. Please reference the above paragraph about her imitating everything we say these days.
And now it’s Tuesday and back to work time. I anticipate another busy week so I’m sure it’ll be Friday again before I know it. No plans for this weekend yet- probably just more unpacking and organizing. Hope everyone has had a good couple of weeks!
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