The Month of May.....Where did it go???

May came and went in a flash!

I didn't do much blogging in the month of May. I had a bad neck strain that kept me from using the computer for long periods of time.......and as we all know, blogging takes time.

May brought many things:

Trip to Fredericksburg

Allergies for both Presley and Piper

Strep For Presley

Mother's Day

Doggy Play dates

Sports classes

A trip to the new Giants of the Savanna

John's birthday

and many other things!

April 30 - May 3rd

We started out the month with a Trip to Fredericksburg!

You can check my last two posts to catch up on that trip. It was tons of fun!

May 5th

Then we attended a Sporties for Shorties class at the recreation center. The girls learned to play basketball in their 1st class. Presley loved it! Her competitive personality was made for sports! Piper's on the hand....not so much! She spent most of the hour being Piper and belly spinning on balls. She's so easily distracted!

After class, we walked over to the park for a bit!

May 6th

I had to take Presley to the doctors office! poor thing had strep! AGAIN! What gives. Seems like she has it every other month or so. I can only imagine how much more often she'll catch it when she starts school in the fall!

Speaking of school in the fall, we also went to Presley's Kindergarten Round Up at her elementary school. We got to meet the four kindergarten teachers and some of the other staff. I am a little concerned that two of the four are pregnant. I am all for having babies......just not on my kindergartners time. :) I know that's wrong, but I am nervous that Presley is going to be in a class with one of the pregnant teachers then get attached, then the teacher leaves, and a sub comes in for weeks. I just want Presley to have stability in her 1st year of school. I am probably over exaggerating, but I am a little over whelmed that I am going from seeing Presley 24 - 7 to having to release her into the world by herself! Anyways, I am sure it will all work out! I hope anyways!

May 7th

Piper has a fever for a few hours. I take her to the doctors office just to get swabbed for strep. I take no chances with that darn pesky illness! Turns out she just has allergies.......bad ones that require a little help from Nasonex and Zyrtec.

May 8th

Mother's day weekend!!!!

We went to Lowe's and ran into on of Presley's best friends, Cindel! That was a nice treat!

John and the girls hooked me up with tons of quilting quarters for my monsters and other projects!

May 9th

Mother's day!

What a nice and LAZY day!

All I really remember about this day is I slept a lot! That was the best gift ever! I don't know how many naps I took! I remember looking at the girls during dinner and smiling and thinking, "Geeze, maybe letting the girls run on auto-pilot all day isn't such a great idea." The had green dots from head to toe. I suppose they got bored and wrote on themselves with a green marker. And every time they would wipe their mouth, they'd get that green marker all over their mouth. So the picture below is my sweet children on auto-pilot!

John and the girls treated me to the best Hot Dog Mother's Day Dinner ever!

May 10th

Meagan and Twig came over for a doggy play date.

Here they are sharing Twig's bone. What a gentleman.

May 12th

Today they learn soccer! Again, Presley loved it! And t hen got a taste of what it's like to have a little boy aggravate her for her attention. She was getting so mad at him. I told there is a lot of that to come. John told her next time that happens that she needs to stand up and address the parents and ask, "Who does this kid belong to????????"

And just like last time, Piper didn't want to have much to do with that sport either. She spent most of the hour sitting in my lap, posing for pictures with the soccer ball, and sitting on the ball.

May 16th

We start another project in the house. We attempt picking a color for the living room walls.

Here's what it looked like before. It was dark and gross. It had a fan that didn't work.....wasn't even wired!

NOW, we have a ceiling fan and lights that work. It's gorgeous too! Black and pewter! We have a white ceiling and are thinking about painting that beam black too....not sure though...just thinking about it. And our walls are light and bright. If that makes sense. It reminds me of a vintage green muted apple and banana. I like it!

The three colors in our living room now.

May 19th

Another sports class, I didn't get any pics of this class. My neck hurt worse this day than any other day so far! So I was so absent minded! Anyways, they played baseball! And loved it! It kept both of their attention! YEAH!!!! Hip Hip Hooray!!!!!

After class we ran errands and I took myself to the doctor for my next. I get lots of drugs and am told to take it easy! Like that's possible! But I do......I rest a lot, the drugs force me too. They knock me out. I just had to learn to tweak my dosage by cutting the pills in half.

May 22

We head to the zoo bright and early for the Giants of the Savanna opening! It was wonderful! They have LIONS! And giraffes you can feed and touch! So awesome! It was great, but crowded. and the hour that we waited in line was totally worth it!

The had a this elephant behind in a building in the Savanna. Presley smacked it's hiney and it roared.......it was sooooo funny! How often do you get to say you got your picture taken with an elephants booty?

We let the girls pet the baby goats, Piper kept chasing them around like she chases Maggie around. Then she's catch them by their hips like she does Maggie and smile and giggle.......and get in trouble!

After leaving the zoo, we headed to Tejanos for lunch and had the server surprise John with a birthday sopapilla. YUM!

May 23rd

John and lil Dave started the morning going out and shooting their guns (at a range). And the girls and I spend 5 hours baking his perfect Mocha Mousse Chocolate cake! It was divine!!!!

That afternoon, my mom and Kim came out to help us sing Happy Birthday to John. After having a slice, we all headed to the dollar theater. John and I saw Alice and Wonderland. Kim and the girls watched The Toothfairy while my mom watched the back of her eyelids.

By the way, Presley says that the toothfairy is suppose to leave 5 dollars!

May 24th

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN!!!!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately he had to work. But we went to the new Tortilla Factory for dinner when he got home. He had a nice low key birthday!

May 25th

Since resting my neck, I had to finish my painting job, so I finshed painting the back door back and one of the kitchen walls to match the living room. Under that nice green paint is a ton of wall paper that I also had to remove!

Before...

After....

May 26th

Last day of the sports class. Today was free day. They did the big ole parachute, jumped rope, hopped in the ladder thingy, hula hooped, and ran races. They had a great time!

After the rec center, we walked to the park for a bit.

May 27th

The girls got ready for some much needed pictures at JCPenny's. I am so behind on getting their pictures taken. And Presley wanted her hair curled so she'd have curls like Piper. So we gave it a try. The curls were big a bouncy until we stepped outside and she started sweating. But her pics came out great!

May 29th

Memorial weekend, we skipped the family reunion to work on the house. But if we are going to be at home all weekend, we had to take the girls out for a little fun and Memorial Day Sale shopping!

We headed to Grapevine Mills Mall. Presley dressed her self and it could not have been a better outfit that she picked out. We ran into Batman!

They had a kids thing going on and the girls got loot bags, made cookies, and colored, and got to do a few other things.

May 30th

John ripped out the hall closet and that entertainment area that was built in to the master bedroom. While he worked on that, the girls enjoyed hanging in their pool and having an ice cream.

May 31st

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!

Today at lunch, Presley breaks the news to me softly while stroking my arm that the easter bunny isn't real, he's just a strange man in a bunny suit! I looked surprised and upset, then she told me, "well maybe he is real." Then I asked her, "if he isn't real, then how'd he know exactly what you wanted in your basket?" Her response, "I dunno know, he's just a man in a suit." Then she turns to John and asks him if she can tell Piper he isnt real. He says NO! Then she tells Piper, "The easter bunny is real Piper, okay."

Ugg! She's never been much of a believer. Gosh, I hope she believes in Santa till she's a little older!

May 2010 was great! I hope June 2010 is just as interesting and fun!

Our Lil' Fredericksburg Vacation (part 2)

Part 2...or 2nd post from our Lil' Fredericksburg vacation.

Friday
More pics of the Wildseed farms.
Field of poppies......so pretty!

The kids ran through the poppies until they found their way to the tent with a bench.

There's Presley and Piper running thru the flowers! You can barely see Piper running behind Presley.

Back at Robbye's house, we had to chain Maggie Belle up to go potty before we headed out to search for wildlife. Maggie is such a city girl! She didn't like being chained up at all!

After crating Maggie back back up, we went in search for that wildlife.

We saw some goats. Reminded me of farmville........but way cooler!

And we did see some deer. There is some in the clearing between the trees.

And here was some walking thru the neighborhoods.

Saturday
Saturday morning, we were up early and headed out to a farm to pick some fresh sweet strawberries! These were the best!!!!!!!! The kids had a blast! They were some strawberry picking machines! I think Piper about every other one.



After dropping off the strawberries at home, we headed down town. The Joey wanted to take the girls to see the coolest toy store ever. The Spunky Monkey!

There's cousin David showing the kids how to fly monkeys across the store!


Later in the day, we headed back to the wildseed farm to check out the butterfly farm. While Presley was searching some, one came and landed on her shoulder.

The kids enjoyed some ice cream while I enjoyed a Bellini!!! Yum! It was quite peachy....just not enough alcohol!

On our way out, we spotted some RED, WHITE, and BLUE bluebonnets. Pretty cool! I had no idea they came in red and white.

After dinner, we headed back out to Lady Bird Johnson Park.
The kids found some huge chunks of flint!

I just love this picture of the girls

Sunday
We had a lil' barbeque with some the family.

Maggie catching some country air.

Piper and Thumper.......Juliet loved that dog! He didn't want to have anything to do with Maggie Belle. I think that hurt her feelings.

The kids cooled off by running through the sprinklers.


I tell you...Thumper is the best good ole country dog ever!

Monday
We packed up and headed back home. :( The girls weren't ready to leave! So planned another trip in July. We gonna go back and pick some peaches! I cannot wait to taste a fresh sweet peach right off the trees!

On the way home, we stopped by a park to eat lunch and they had another garden there. The Pioneer's Garden, I believe is what it was called.

Piper thought it was funny to "play the flute".

Last picture of all three girls in Fredericksburg.

Time to head home!

We had an awesome time and can't wait to go back!

Our Lil' Fredericksburg Vacation (part 1)

I have been working on this post for weeks now. It's taken forever since something very weird is going on in the blog world. My pics get odd things done to them, they have errors uploading, blogger locks up on me....UGGGG!!!!!!!!! Makes me agitated!

So, I am fed up trying to complete this post, so before Christmas came, I wanted to share a little of our Fredericksburg vacation! We had a blast! The country was so inviting and comfortable! We could not have asked for better weather either!

Friday
Lunch with grandma pretty much started our vacation! Mexican food...my fav!!!! So yummy!

After lunch we headed out to Lady Bird Johnson Park for a little bird and snake watching, rock picking and skipping, and some hiking! So much fun!

Here you can see a hummingbird! I love hummingbirds! They are so tiny and pretty!

Then we started our hike and came across some sweet smelling honey suckle! It brought back sweet memories from my own childhood of me and Stacey tasting the honeysuckle from our own front yard! I loved and hated that bush! Loved it for the honeysuckles..hated it for all the darn bees and bee stings that came with it!

We had the girls try some of nature's sweetness. Presley was very hesitant. She wanted Piper to go first. Presley kept asking us, even way after she tried it, "are you sure this won't make me sick?" and " are you sure this is safe?".

Hiking...follow the leader!

Stopping for a few poses!

Presley loved all of the cacti! Here she is posing with it!


Digging for cool rocks and shells

Pops teaching the girls to skip rocks....it probably would have been better if the girls had been paying attention.

Look at all of the greenery and wild flowers!

While we were hiking, Piper and I got ahead of John and Presley. So we sat on some rocks waiting for the other two to catch up. While we were waiting, a volunteer showed us an area to watch for a possible snake. So we sat and waited....

And here comes John and Presley and just as soon as John stepped over the hole......the freakin' snake jumped out! SCARY! That was pretty cool.........scared the crap out of John though!

That was the end of our hike. We headed back to Robbye's house and napped and met Grandma and Joey at the Wildseed Farm. That place was pretty cool. Flowers EVERYWHERE!


I saw this bird bath/flower planter. I wanted that thing so bad.........but it was like $150!

So many beautiful flowers, look at these snap dragons! These were HUGE!

Butterflies were everywhere too.

We did so much more on this day. We went out and did some deer watching. I have pics...but am tired of trying to post them. I might just have to try posting a part two....

Sunday
Kiddos tracing each other...kinda creeps me out when they do this...

On our way there and on the way home, we stopped by the coolest rest area. It had the cleanest bathrooms and a playground with paths to walk and stretch some legs and a work out area. Pretty neat!

Well, I shall definitely create a part two to our lil' Fredericksburg vacation. Many more pics to post!

Ha-Ha

Piper's latest "ha-ha" moment consisted of me looking through my purse to look for a piece of gum and to pull out an empty pack of it. She was right next to me and looked up at me with those big blue eyes and bright dimples and said,

"Ha-ha, I eat all your gum mommy. Ha-ha, you need to buy more."

That little Stinker!

The Deep Thinker

In this last week, Presley has been doing some real deep thinking and asking hard questions.

Three of the hardest so far:

1) "Is God Real?" I asked what she has heard. She said that they tell her on TV that God is all around your heart. I asked her how that made her feel. She smiled and said that it made her feel good. I smiled back at her and told her that is all that mattered. John and I don't want to ever sway the girls one way or another when it comes to that. I am sure more deep discussions are coming like that in the near future!

2) "Why don't I have Daughter's Day? You have Mother's Day, Daddy has Father's day, but I have nothing." I told her that she has her birthday days. She responded with that isn't anything like Mother's or Father's Day because Nate and all of her other boy cousins also have a birthday so that doesn't celebrate Daughter's Day. Then I told her that I cherish her every day and I don't need just one day to celebrate her being my daughter. She said she wants a Daughter's Day. Then she proceeded with just picking a day for it.....EVERY TUESDAY!

I can't win, so we called Grandma Beth. And came up with a great idea. We'll celebrate us all being daughter's at the Butterfly Garden in Fredricksburg when we go down there. Whew...Presley agreed to that! That EVERY TUESDAY business would have made us go super broke!

Then while we where walking around Walmart, I mention in passing to Presley that all women where daughters. That confused her so bad! She disagreed and said that her grandmother's mom have passed so they aren't daughters anymore. So we had to have an entire discussion in Walmart about that until she understood that even if a mommy passes away, her daughter never stops being her daughter.

3) "Do kids pass away?" Whewwww.....Deep breath. How to I answer that? She asked me this as I drove. My answer to her, "Yes, unfortunately it does happen." I explained that a child could pass away the same as an adult could via accidents or illnesses. I asked why she asked that. She started to tear up and said she never wanted to pass away. She and I were both fighting back the tears. I told her that it is mommy and daddy's job to keep her safe and healthy so that never happens.

WHEWWWWW! How come she thinks of these things? Do any other kids...5 year olds...ask these same hard questions?

The Big 3 Year Check Up!

Juliet went in for her 3 year old check up yesterday.

Here's her stats:

Height: 36 1/2 inches tall (50%)

Weight: 26.2 pounds (25 %)

BMI: 13.8

Topics hit on:

Nap time, still needs 13-14 hours.

Peanut butter, since Presley is starting school...we need to go ahead and introduce it to her.

Vitamins, I can up her dosage to one entire vitamin since her hemoglobin was fine (via finger prick...not cool by Piper).

She's growing perfectly fine! Right on target! She's my beautiful healthy girl! And lucky Piper got out of there with no shots, she won't be so lucky when she turns 4 though.