She Sure Has Been In A Mood Lately

(just a few of the many fresh things Abigail has said this weekend)

Abigail: "I don't feel like being reasonable right now. Maybe later or tomorrow I will."

Me: "I think piano music is nice and relaxing."
Abigail: "I think it's nice and weird. It makes me sleepy and want to cry."

Amelia: "Tinkerbell is going on an adventure."
Abigail: "In the dumpster I hope."

Just a funny video I came across on an old camera card. The girls were just playing dress up, dancing to the Nutcracker, oh so "Grace-fully", right up till the end. I'm pretty sure it's Guinness who Amelia trips on. :)

Amelia's Kindergarten Song

She Forgot To Draw The Picture Of Daddy's Poker Winnings

The girl's cousin Macie had a softball tournament in Biloxi the same weekend as Will's birthday. Will and I hadn't been to Biloxi together since the kids were born. We used to go pretty often. It's just a short drive, a little over 3 hrs, so we decided it would be a fun weekend getway. Abigail documented the trip for us in drawings.

Just Chute Me

Well over a month ago, for Will's step mom's birthday, the whole family went to Big Kahunas water park. The girls had a blast playing in the water and being able to ride on some of the bigger kid slides this year. After the water park some of the grown ups and a few of the older grandkids got treated to a parasailing trip. I'm pretty sure when someone asked if Abigail could go (Amelia wasn't old enough) I said something like "there's not enough drugs out there to allow me to let her do something like that!"

Well, somehow I let her go, sans drugs. There were 8 family members that went in all and there was only room on the boat for the people parasailing. So I stayed back with Amelia and tried to not to think of all the things that could go wrong.

An hour later Abigail came back absolutely beaming. She has so much fun and wasn't scared at all! At the highest point William and her were 400 feet in the air!! The coolest thing to her was being able to see her school's water tower.

(crappy photos taken by the parasailing company)

Eat Your Heart Out Mary Lou

(I think Abigail already has longer legs than most of the Olympic gymnasts)

The girls had their first gymnastics class tonight and they absolutely loved it! The class was an hour long and they were not ready to leave when it was over. They did lots of stretches and then worked on balance beams. They will switch to a new apparatus every week. For never taken a gymnastics class before, they did great!

On Second Thought

So the girls had an asbolute BLAST at the open gym! They played for over three hours and came home exhausted. Not a minute has gone by without them talking about what they can do and what they want to learn. I think we are going to sign them up for tumbling classes one day a week.

Tonight rolls around and we've been discussing going to Baytowne Wharf. There's a play area and a few kids activities. When we asked her if she wanted to go, she thought for a moment and said this:

"I'm going to say yes, 'cause whenever I say no, I always have fun."

We call these learning moments............

Friday Night

"For real? I'm not doing that. I'd rather sit here and write my alphabet thirteen times!" - Abigail

And she wasn't laughing. Apparently the idea of going to "open gym" isn't so appealling.....

First Day Of School

No Excuse

I don't have an excuse for not blogging this Summer. We really haven't done much... The girls have been total homebodies!! We've been invited on countless play dates, swim dates and movie outings, but the girls just want to stay home. They've played in their playroom and swam in the pool. But mostly they've colored, and colored and then colored some more. Those kids LOVE to draw! I joke and say we're single handedly destroying the rain forests with the amount of paper they use.
I have barely taken any pictures this Summer :( Here's just a couple of random ones.