Shout Out to Miss Sandy!

A couple of weeks ago I was in Houston visiting my friend Sandy and I mentioned that I wanted to make a bow holder for Paige. She knew exactly what I was talking about and lo and behold, look what arrived at my door step this morning. First, I LOVE IT!!!! It is absolutely perfect and what I pictured in my mind. Second, yipee! Now I don't have to pretend to be creative and attempt to make some disasterous creation ! Thank you thank you thank you Sandy!!

Dear Miss Sandy,

You ROCK! Thank you so much for our sweet little gifts! Not only do we love them, but we love the tissue paper they were wrapped in and we have been playing 'wrap a present' all morning. We love you! Come visit us soon!

Hugs, Trey Trey & Paigey

Spaghetti time

Meatballs or Goofballs?

Swim lessons

Trey is doing great at swim lessons. I really am impressed with the swim school. He is on station #3 which is the 'blue fish float'. You can see he is pretty happy to be there.

Here is Paige hanging out in the waiting room and coloring for 4 seconds (her average interest in anything). Grandma has met us at Trey's swim school almost every week to watch Paige which is a tremendous help. Thanks Grandma!

Boy Bonding & come on rain!!

Trey and Dominique watching a huge monster truck driven by Jesse James jump / land on a small house...such boy stuff.

I just thought these clouds were amazing. We are still waiting and praying for rain around here.

Trey's New Bed

We went to Ikea and bought Trey a new bed and night table. It really makes his room look nicer and he likes it a lot. So does Paige...for jumping that is. We actually bought her a bed frame too, but we still need the actual mattress and bed linens so we are holding off until early fall maybe before putting it together. Plus, I am in no hurry to have her wandering the house and waking us all up since she won't be confined in her crib. I'm SO NOT looking forward to that transition! {And please excuse Baby Tara's nakedness...Paige prefers her "maked".}

Extreme close up!

Proud Big Girl

So this post may be TMI for some of you. Just count yourself warned. I am so proud of Paigey. She is doing a great job getting the hang of this potty thing. All it takes is stickers, m&m's, prizes, patience, reminders and did I mention stickers?

Note how the left side is covered with stickers...this is her success with #1. The right side...well, zero, zilch, nada, nothing. That's okay, in good time my dear, in good time!

Yeah for me!

And did I mention that Trey gets m&m's too for being the cheering section??

Happy 4th!

It is so unbelievably hot here (100+) so we decided to skip the Gtown 4th of July celebration and have our own parade up the street. The kids decorated their bikes with streamers and our neighbor friends joined us. Our 'parade' lasted about 5 minutes which was enough for all of us. Then it was into our friends kiddie pool to cool off.

I caught Trey giving Paige a hug on the couch, but of course by the time I grabbed my camera, the moment was gone. So here is a re-enactment of the hug which does not even compare to the real deal.

Hugs to you all!