Our Weekend

Our weekend was a lot of fun. Friday morning started off with E and I going to MOPS. First though, E needed to stop and check out the ants that crawl on our driveway/garage area. This is a daily occurrence to and from the car. She screams "ants" and then "bite" because she knows she can't touch them. It's really cute and adorable.

That afternoon we came home and painted the cross and a picture of Jesus. She had a lot of fun with that. 

On Saturday morning, Jason had to go work at the hospital (boo!) so E and I headed to the city wide Easter egg hunt event at a local park by ourselves.

 They had all the ages separated into age groups. E's group got to go first. She got the hang of it after a minute or 2. She really just wanted to pick up the egg and open it immediately and then close it again and then reopen it. Ha.

She got a pretty decent amounts of eggs once she was all done. 

After the egg hunt, I took a couple of pictures of her in front of the creek. She wasn't interested in looking at the camera. 

We got to see the "big bunny" while we were there too. She gave him a hug before she would sit on his lap.

After that, we went to the petting zoo. They had goats, sheep, baby bunnies and ducks, a baby cow and a pony and even a turkey! She had fun. (And I just tried to not have a minor anxiety attack that she was touching the animals)

When Daddy got home that afternoon, we went on a wagon ride. She loves her wagon rides.

On Sunday, we went to church and then did things around the house all day since it rained pretty much all day. E enjoyed playing with the empty eggs all day long.

Hope everyone had a great weekend and that you are enjoying a wonderful week!

Five on Friday!

1. We started the Resurrection Eggs on Wednesday. I'm really excited to start this tradition. I know she is really young this year but she has been excited to open up each new egg each day and loves to play with the objects in them.

2. We went to the Fort Worth Nature and Science Museum with some friends of ours and played in the children's museum area for the whole morning. E loved it! She had fun driving the ambulance, playing in the water, shopping at the grocery store and looking at the lizards and snakes. We will definitely be back again.

3. I finished reading The Elite book this week. It's the 2nd book in a series, and the last book comes out in May. I've enjoyed the series. It's cute and a fast read. I definitely recommend them.

4. So last week How I Met Your Mother had their series finale. Some people loved the ending and some people hated it. I was in the latter category - I was NOT a fan. I was so so upset that they killed off Tracy and put him back together with Robin. Well I found out that they filmed an alternate ending and to see it you have to buy the season 9  DVD. You better believe I will be buying it to satisfy my need for a different ending.

5. A local library had bunnies and baby ducks to pet on Wednesday. E loved it and kept running back and forth from the ducks to the bunnies. She cried when her 5 minutes was up. It was so sad. I just love getting to watch her excitement over the little things.

Happy Friday everyone!

Photo Dump for March

Oh my gosh ya'll. I'm sorry I fell off the face of this earth apparently in the month of March. Sorry about that for the 5 people who read my blog =). I guess life just gets busy and by the end of the day I'm too tired. But I do love this blog so that I can look back for memories sake so I'm going to do better!

I'm just going to do a photo dump of certain things that have been highlights because let's face it, I'm not going to be able to talk about everything =).

We didn't make it to church one week because we were going to be SUPER late so we stopped at one of our favorite coffee shops, and E danced on the stage area that they had.

Running with Daddy on the sidewalk

Playing at a fountain when Mommy went shopping one day after swim lessons

My parents came into town for a couple of days during Spring Break. It was great to see them, and E loved having them here.

 Lots and lots of park play has been happening since the weather has been so beautiful

 Playing in the rain with Daddy. She got upset when we brought her in. 

Wearing green on St. Patrick's Day. Her pants were green you just can't see them. Have to embrace our Irish heritage. 

 There is an awesome park in a town nearby that we stopped by on a whim on our way home from our well check visit. She had an absolutely blast and still talks about the dolphin today. We plan on going back there soon.

 We went to Cabela's to play one Sunday afternoon. She loves that place. She loves to play on the cars, in the tents, and look at the fish.

And this right here - just melts my heart. They are my world and I thank God every day for them.

I'm impressed if you are still reading! Hoping to be back in the swing of things now!

19 months!!!

Oh sweet E - how is another month gone already? You fill our lives with so much joy!



Here is what you are doing this month:

- You love to wear necklaces! You wear them all the time and always love to have one when we leave the house. It's really cute. You are also starting to get really interested in mommy's earrings and bracelets too.

- You ask to bite or pinch mommy every day. I obviously say no but where you learned this I have no idea. Maybe you heard me say it in passing.

- You love to do forward rolls with help. You think its the bees knees.

- You tell us about your day at the end of the day. You tell Daddy while he rocks you to sleep and you tell me during the bedtime routine. It's usually in one word answers but it's pretty cute. For example: we went to Paradise Pond so the whole day you talked about a "bike" that you had to "share" and you got "mad" because you didn't want to share.

- You can point to a square, rectangle, triangle, and octagon when asked. You can name a square and recognize it.

- You will point to yourself in reflections or in the window during FaceTime and say you. Haha. I guess we say that's you when we point to your picture.

- You say "at awn" (that one) when pointing to something that you want like from a row a books.

- You will say "take it" when you are giving me something. I hear it a lot throughout the day.

- You love the book "Caps for Sale". You will shake your finger and stomp your feet at the parts in the book when the peddler is doing it to the monkeys. So stinking adorable.

- You are very interested in the mad emotion. You like to watch videos of yourself throwing tantrums and you will point and say mad. We also talk about being mad after your tantrums.

- You can now climb onto the couch and recliner in the living room. You also have tried to climb into the chair with your high chair in it in the kitchen.

- You love to be carried around in the Boba at home so we can dance, dance, dance

- You still love to dance and still love music

- Favorite songs this month: R5 Forget About You, Let it Go from Frozen, Overcomer, Steal Your Heart from Austin and Ally

- Favorite books: Caps for Sale, The Ladybug Girl books, Ten Little Piggies

- Favorite toys: Your baby doll that you call "Baby" and the stuffed Mickey Mouse my mom got you

- Lots of new words: Brandis (old nanny), share, helicopter (but it sounds really funny), shamrock (fe fock), green, bridge, dark, almost, so many more!

- You want to walk to the car and into stores, church etc, instead of us carrying you. I have had to add extra time so that you can do it.

- You have started to become way more independent and want to do it by yourself!

- You recognize and name the color pink.

- You can name the color green about 90% of the time when asked.

- One day I told your daddy to "look alive" when he was lying on the floor and you picked up on that and now say it all the time. You say "look live". It cracks us up. Even more so that you do it often to daddy.

- You love to color but don't get to do it often because you think the table and furniture is more fun to color on and the crayons get taking away.

- When we go into the room without the lights on, you will say dark and then we turn on the lights and you will say light or bright.

- You love to help with everything. You like to put the cloth diapers away in your room, put your clothes away, help with the laundry, help with making our bed etc. You love to help.

- When you wake up in the middle of the night (yes you still don't sleep through the night) you will call out for one of us and if that parent doesn't come then you have a full on fit in your crib. Sometimes it takes you 5-10 minutes to get over it and accept the fact that it's not changing and give up.

- You weight around 28 pounds and are 31 1/2 inches tall.

- You wear a size 5 to 5.5 shoe and a size 4 diaper when wearing disposables.

- You are wearing 18 months to 18-24 month size clothes.

Oh my sweet E how you are growing!! We love you!

Recent "Photo Shoots"

In the past month, I've gotten my big camera out and taking pictures of E in cute outfits. I want to put them on here for my family (You're welcome) and because it's my blog and I can. =)

E was playing outside while Jason was putting our raised garden together one weekend, and she looked so cute and the sun was just perfect. 

 I may be biased but this little girl is just beautiful!

E was playing in the kitchen making faces in the oven reflection one day and I decided to take a few pics and she ACTUALLY COOPERATED! It was a miracle =)!!

I just love my sweet girl! She is just the light of our lives!