Date Night

I had been asked out on a date sometime last week! I was so excited, I said yes immediately! My date already knew what we were going to do all I had to do was chaperone and pay oh and take Adelyn to Nanny's house.
Avery has been a little bit over looked the last few weeks due to Adelyn being sick then having surgery then having the big 2nd Birthday party! So last week we were reading our night night books, saying our prayers & singing our songs and she said "Mommy, can you & me go on a playdate?" I said sure baby where do you want to go? Very quickly as if she had been thinking about this for hours she said...." I want to go & get a manicure & pedicure & go to a mommy & daddy place to eat!" She was so matter of fact, I loved the idea! She wanted to go eat at a japanese restaraunt in Conroe, Tx so I told her we would go on another date for that! Maybe even with Daddy & Adelyn.



We started off at Starbucks! She was so excited about her very own Hot Coco! The lovely lady working offered to take our picture. She could tell we were on our first date!!! We only spilled the coco once as we tripped out the door! Avery tripped for all my friends that know what a clutz I am it was not me but my graceful daughter!! Poor baby of all the traits to get from me and she gets the gift of
GAB and being GRACEFUL!!!! Sorry Avery!



Here we are getting our relaxing Mani & pedi's! Avery corrected me no mommy manicure & pedicure!! Sorry again. Avery took the liberty of picking out our colors, bright turquoise with turquoise glitter! Hot stuff! She was so talkative and excited. Thanks to Lauren a customer who was getting a pedicure with he mom who took our picture!

The lady working told me oh please make sure she no spill her drink, I no clean up mess! Then the lady told me tell her sit still no move, I only do once! Even though she did fix at least 5 times! I bought the beautiful turquoise polish for a souvenir of our date! Poor Avery, she thought the experience was so great even though the lady needed a chill pill! Avery told me on the way home, "Mommy, maybe we can do this agin sometime just you & me! I had fun!!!!" If my my baby only knew how much the evening touched my heart! I had fun & I hope in 10 plus years you still want to have a manicure & pedicure with your mommy & go eat at a mommy & daddy place for dinner!
I love you Avery Ray!!!!

Immunizations

UGH!!!!
Poor Baby girl, had to go & get even more pokes by needles! I felt so bad for her. We walk in to the Pediatricians office& she immediately was saying no hurt me mamma! No hurt me! I thought of all the ways I could take the shot for her with no conclusion! Miss Adelyn was not a very cooperative patient to say the least! She would not let the Dr. look in her throat, nose or ears without a fight! She just wanted to be left alone!!! When it was all said & done & she had her pink band of courage on her leg we got an excellent bill of health! Adelyn is in the upper 75% for both height & weight! They say if you double height at 2 that is how tall the child will be! I do not know the truth behind it all because that would make Adelyn almost 6 feet tall & for those of you that know me standing barely 4"11 her possibilities of height are slim!!! But we can hope! I will not tell her any different. She is perfect just as she is!!!!!

Papa Arnold

Just a super sweet picture of our Papa! We love you lot's & thank you for the fun filled weekend! Sorry Meme I did not have any pictures with you this time! Please all of you reading, my in-laws own a cleaners in Corpus Christi & last night it burnt down and need your prayers for strength and patience! No one was hurt, it started in the electrical box about 10:00 at night!
Not a 100% loss but none the less the totals keep coming in! Thank Heaven for insurance & a great daddy that will be there to help Papa & Meme get back on line in a matter of days! Our thoughts & prayers are with you, xoxoxox Texascowgirlz

Birthday Marathon!

Avery & Adelyn in their pettiskirts! Don't you just love them?

Mommy's Baby! Has anyone figured out how to stop our every thing's from growing up?


Happy 2nd Birthday my Sweet little Bean!
We had a marathon Birthday for the precious Baby! On Thursday her actual Birthday we had a small family dinner with nanny & dadoo, Aunt Kathy & Uncle John, Patrick & Mariann & of course Aunt T.T, Uncle Steve & Sheppard. Oh & I almost forgot our daddy was able to join us for cake & ice cream! Thanks Daddy!
It was so the start of our Birthday tour!



Then Friday night we had a friendly get together with all our friends and our Aunt Missy & Uncle Fraser who of course brought our favorite puppy Elizabeth Taylor! Fun was had by all! Then up & at em early Saturday morning to go share the festivities with our cousins, Uncle Mark & Meme & Papa in Corpus Christi, Texas. Shrek was the theme for all festivities. You would ask Addey what she wanted & she would say SHREK cake Mama! So we had a Shrek overload! Shrek Birthday cake 3 times, Shrek Pinata because every party in Texas must have a pinata, Shrek tablecloth, napkins, cups, plastic ware! I am over Shrek!


Thanks to everybody who helped make my baby girlz Birthday so memorable & so much fun!! Most that know me know I usually do a full shindig at home with Bouncy things in the yard, crafts that are so fun & so messy, lot's of food all homemade with love by mommy & daddy & yummy cake! But with all the medical issues we went through over the last month I could not get it together! I was feeling very guilty for not going to all that trouble! But when it was all said and done, Boy it was so nice to not clean up for days before & after the party!!


Happy Birthday baby girl, I wish you many more!

Oh my goodness! My little 3 year old going on 16! Sweet Sally, she thinks she is Carrie Underwood & actually if she is in the guitar pickin, song writing & singing mood she will tell you that her name is "Avery Carrie Underwood A@#$". When she plays make believe that is always her name!
She amazes me with what moves she has picked up off of just music videos. I will be monitoring what video's she watches a little differently! This past weekend we went to Corpus Christi to visit the in-laws, Meme & Papa & Avery took her guitar & Cowgirl hat as she never leaves home without & proceeded to perform what I thought was to be just a song she wrote. Well then she started dancing like a big girl, moving her hips and wiggling around a bit to much! I was shocked. Fortunately I do not think she knew what she was doing only that we were laughing & changing the activity to a bit more modest tune. I just hope she does not repeat that at church choir practice or Sunday school! They will wonder what her mommy does at night? I am all about encouraging her spirit but Avery you are only 3!!!! (As you can tell by the food all over the shirt, she still needs a little assistance with pudding!)
And that face she is giving me is just tooo much!!!!

What a cold day at the park!
This was a few weeks ago at Raymond Russell Park! One of our favorite parks in San Antonio. And one of the only parks I know with a merry go round! Is it just me or does it scare other people? I feel as if they will fall off while the merry go round is going and while trying to get up all I will see is her little head going bong, bong, bong!!!! Anyway we still like it and try to go early when big children are in school! This was before Miss Adelyn's ear surgery. I will post some after surgery pics later! A big difference on the dark circles.

Three little Monkeys

I am so far behind on my thoughts and pictures I just feel as if I need a backhoe to help me out of my hole! But i need to start somewhere or they will just keep piling up! Amazing, I still find time to check my email, my favorite bloggers, ebay, etsy! Just never enough to journal my thoughts!
Anyway I will pretend as if it is the first of January! Happy New Year! One of my resolutions is to download my pictures out of my camera before they get to maximum capacity! Which has been known to be over 900 pictures to good to erase! What am I thinking? Today was only 222. So I am at least better than before. This is a picture of the A's all three lil monkey's dancing on stage at Incredible Pizza Company!