Hot times at the Zoo

Here's our zoo troop. We joined the Ellis boys and Lawson at the San Antonio zoo over the weekend. Whew was it HOT! The kiddos were troopers and us girls couldn't keep up with the crazy boys!

Mia certainly tried but was dragged down a bit by some Benedryl I gave her in morning because of some kind of lil rash she had on her legs. What was I thinking?! We'd never used Benedryl before because a. we never had to and b. when people said we should use it on planes rides to help her sleep they also said it sometimes makes kids wired and there was no way I was going to try something that could possible make Mia even MORE active! So, now we know - Benedryl makes Mia sleepy.....niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicce to know!

We had a great time in San Antonio with our dear friends and loved the zoo!!!

Gymnastics girl

Here's Mia on her way to gymnastics. She LOVES it! We're off to San Antonio this weekend to visit friends so hopefully will have more posts after this weekend.

Let's try this again

So yes, it's been a while since I've last updated this but now that I can log on from work - there's a good probability that I'll start updating our blog more often. Lord knows we have had so much going on since that last time I added an update that I'll just start with where we are now. First here's a recent picture of the girls hanging out after bath time...they're suppose to be winding down...fat chance!

It's summer which means lots of pool time! Just in the last two weeks a switch turned on with Mia and she's a swimming machine! She now jumps in the pool from anywhere possible, including the diving board, and then will swim to you. Very impressive considering she was literally kicking and screaming when we were off to swim class just 4 months ago. We're continuing on with swim class through the summer to help her with the actual mechanics of swimming. Mia's also now doing gymnastics while dance class is on summer break. Whew - she's always such the busy girl. Plus, she turned 4 in April so thinks she's quite the big girl now. Here's a shot of her/her friends at her Quinn's (girl to the left) birthday party.

Sweet Morgan is now 14 months and is trying her best to keep up with her big sister. It's funny how fast she can walk now - almost as if she's running from us many times. She, too, enjoys pool time and actually prefers that you hold her in a horitzontal position almost as if she's swimming. She just loves to be taken around the pool like that and keeps her mouth open most the time - we think she's looks like a little whale like that and we totally need to get a picture of her like that because it's pretty comical. She's most happy getting in to everything and is starting become quite the little bully. The other day Mia was standing on a step stool brushing her teeth and Morgan wanted on it to so she started pushing Mia and wouldn’t stop until Mia got off. Apparently, she’s also pushing her at other times during the day according to Yurika and is starting to walk up to her and grab whatever Mia or Olivia has/then will cry until she gets it. So basically - Morgan's hearing the word "NO!" a lot these days! Here's a shot of her at her little first birthday celebration - which we had at Lupe Tortilla's with just family...simple and nice!