Pumpkin Patch!

 

 

Dallas, Backyard and Aggie Football

100 degrees, with mosquitoes galore, we don't care, we love to swing!

 

Spending quality time with Great-Grandma in Dallas.



Our trip to Bass Pro Shop. We had fun running around, looking at the fish, climbing into boats, "shooting guns", and "riding horses"!

 





 

 

Showing our Aggie Spirit with new shirts from Aunt Christy! Win or lose, we love our Aggies!

1st Day of Preschool

Here we are on our first day of preschool! Our faces display our sentiments perfectly. I am super excited for our new adventure and Annabelle is not at all excited to be separated from mommy all day. Regardless, we both had a GREAT day and would not stop talking about it when mommy picked us up. My favorite part was playing on the playgroud and Annabelle's favorite part was playing kitchen during center time. We are super excited to make new friends and learn new things at our preschool :)

Galveston

We have been talking about going to the beach all summer. Annabelle and I could not wait to build sand castles, jump in the waves, and fly a kite while running along the surf. Grana, Granddad and Uncle Blake came to our house to spend the night and then head out to Galveston the next day. That night I played my first game of chickenfoot! I played all 13 rounds and didn't come in last, hooray!

Here is a picture of Annabelle and I talking with Grana about how much fun we are going to have at the beach.

The Beach from Annabelle's perspective:
    We are here! Sand toys, sunscreen, beach towels, crashing waves, shovels, snacks, I love it all! My favorite part is plopping down in the sand next to Uncle Blake and playing in the sand for hours. I also enjoy a quick trip to the ocean to fill my bucket with water to pour on mommy's sand castles. Every now and then I enjoy a quick dip in the ocean to cool off. I don't mind the salt water once I get used to it and I tell mommy to bring me deeper and deeper.

Beach from Hallie's Perspective:
We are here! Sand toys, sunscreen, beach towels, crashing waves... mommy, what's all that black stuff? Why is the sand dirty? Mommy wash all the dirt off me! Ok, ok, I guess I can handle the dirt. Just don't think about it. Now for some swimming! Ahh, feel the water on my legs, nice and refreshing. Here comes a wave, splash! Ahhhhh! Salt in my mouth! Spit, spit spit. Cry. Yuck! I need juice! Run back to our spot to drink water, spit and repeat until all the salt is gone. Ok, maybe I don't like this ocean thing so much. Where is the swimming pool? And don't even get me started on my reaction to when salt got in my EYES!!! Needless to say, I spent a lot of time building sand castles and watching Uncle Blake dig deep holes. I still had a blast but for the rest of the trip, ocean water was not permitted to touch any part of my face and if it did, insert screams.

Loved loved flying a kite with Granddad!

The beach!

Sisters with matching pants (Gap ad!), boys playing Risk, girls playing twister!

Family Picture before heading out to dinner.

Days Go By

Summer is a precious gift. We get to sleep in, play with mommy all day, go to the pool every day that there is a glimpse of sun, eat creative snacks, go to the park on a whim, and have fun adventures with baby Jacob :) Some days in the summer drag on a bit though. Today, for example, we played pretend mommy (Annabelle and I taking turns), colored with chalk outsite, watered the plants, completed a puzzle, made up a domino game with mom, had a country radio dance party, busied ourselves while mommy showered, had a lunch hot off the grill, watched super why, and read 5 library books all before noon! Needless to say mommy has to have a lot of tricks in her back pocket for when we have exhausted everything to do in the playroom. Today, we were treated to maicures and pedicures in mommy's bathroom! It was fun and neither of us smudged a single nail!!!

Painting a masterpiece! It started out as a rainbow... then morphed into a... picasso!

Jesus Loves the Little Children

Hi, this is me, Annabelle, at 25 months singing my rendition of "Jesus Loves the Little Children" Enjoy!

Pinkalicious

Due to unforeseen circumstances (aka Annabelle taking off her diaper at nap time and finger painting with her poop all over the crib and walls) we missed the pinkalicious tea party at the library that I (Hallie) had sooo been looking forward to. So when life hands you lemons, you made lemonade, pink lemonade to be exact!!! We improvised and mommy made pink cupcakes, pink frosting, and pink lemonade at home instead :)

Fun in Dallas

We had a great time in Dallas getting spoiled by Grana and Grandad! Mommy loves being a teacher so that we have the flexibility to stay a week in Coppell if we want to :)

 16.5 Weeks Pregnant. Maternity shirts are still a little baggy.

They match and didn't even plan it ;)

Waiting for some grub at Texas Roadhouse. Had to stop Belle from eating the peanuts whole!

Thank goodness we could just jump in the pool after these messy Popsicles!

  



What a Month: May

What we've been up to lately:

Hallie: I am still the Queen of "why's" but my questions are getting more sophisticated. For example, I've been asking mommy, how the baby got in her tummy and how is that baby going to get out of her tummy? I question everything we do and everywhere we go. I pretty much talk non-stop! My parents call me the energizer bunny because I play all day, I do not nap, and I still protest to going to bed at 8pm. My mommy says if they could bottle my energy and sell it, we'd be millionaires!

Annabelle: I am talking up a storm, a storm. I can say long sentences like "Mommy, I want to put my shoes on and go to the park please" and the other day, when Hallie kept asking mommy over and over for more snack I said (word for word) "The answer is no Hallie, sorry!" I am still growing strong staying well within the 90th percentile for height and weight. I am about 2-3 inches shorter than Hal. My nickname is not the energizer bunny like Hallie, no, I like my naps. My nickname is trouble. That is because I find trouble (not on purpose of course) and make trouble on a daily basis! Examples include finding a black dry erase marker and coloring on mommy's new bench, getting into mommy's make-up constantly, and taking off my diaper during nap time and managing to spread poop all over the room! But, although I can find trouble, I can also be super sweet and love to cuddle and kiss. :)

Baby #3: I am just hanging out in mommy's tummy getting excited about meeting the people that make all those crazy noises outside the womb. I am causing mommy just as much nausea as Hallie and Annabelle did. According to her journal from Hallie, I will keep causing it until 18 weeks, two more weeks to go! She will find out in a week if I am a boy or girl! I can't wait to pop out and join the fun in November/December!

Events:
Christy and Ian's Wedding!!!

  

 
 Trip to Dallas:

Eleanor's Birthday Party:

Annabelle's 2nd Birthday:

 

Playing with the new camera!

Easter 2012

I love my sister and she loves me, we get along pretty well most of the time. Belle is my little shadow, literally. She follows me everwhere I go. When she wakes in the morning, the first thing she says (after gathering her pacis) is "where's hallie?" When I go pottey, belle 'goes potty'. When drag a chair to the kitchen island to help cook dinner, another chair is being drug right behind me. When I start making crazy loud weird noises in the car on car trips, I have a back-up singer. So the theme of our sisterhood lately is "monkey see, monkey do." Here is a prime example of my theory: I turned my easter egg basket into a hat, and you know what followed :)

We got to Louis's house around 8 but Grana didn't show up until 10. We were so excited when Grana, Grandad, Aunt Steph and Uncle Blake showed up, let the holiday weekend begin!

Bubbles and easter egg hunts. Doesn't get much better than this!!!

We LOVE love playing outside. What a fun backyard Louis has!

The best before Easter Mass shot we could get. You know the drill, 1st one Annabelle is crying, 2nd one I am looking away, 3rd one (this one) we had to settle for Annabelle having that silly paci in her mouth. Oh well!

Hallie-isms and Favorites

Recent Hallie-isms:

Me: "Hallie, we better hurry home, I really really have to potty!"
Hallie: "Mommy, thats ok, you're sitting down."
Me: "Yes, I'm sitting down, so what?"
Hallie: " When you have to go potty and you are sitting down, you do this (hallie wiggles a lot in her seat) wiggle wiggle and your tee tee goes away!"


Me: "Hallie, you can't have your animal crackers back becuase I gave them to Annabelle and she ate them, they are in her tummy."
Hallie: "Thats ok mommy, I can put on my bathing suit and go in her mouth and get them back!"
Me: thought: where in the world did that idea come from???

Current Favorites       Hallie                                     Annabelle
Book:                           fancy nancy                            i am a bunny
Snack:                teddy bears and yogurt              yogurt pretzels
Song:                             ABC's                         happy and you know it
Animal:                         giraffe                                       dinosaur
Toy:                               puzzles                           baby doll and stoller
Show:                            olivia                                        umizoomi
Art Project:                  paint                                       play dough
At the Park:               play chase                                     swing