My sweet girls!

The first sister photo shoot! Is was bedtime and both were in the PJ's!

Dress Up

Eloise has loved playing dress up lately. Patrick was shocked that this goes on... being from a family of boys, he didn't know there was such thing as playing "dress up." This is a pict. of her playing on Christmas morning. She got a Fancy Nancy dress and some sunglasses!

I just got a bunch of picts of Christmas from my mom.... so I will be posting some delayed Christmas shots.

Super Bowl Cookies!

It is a family tradition of ours to make cut out cookies for Christmas and decorate them. I was looking forward to Eloise getting to participate this year, but we didn't end up doing it. There was too much going on with Lucie's birth. SO, we decided to do it this weekend for the Super Bowl. I don't have appropriate cookie cutters, so we had to get creative. The Steelers got stars because the diamonds on their logo look similar to stars (close enough?) I had to stretch my imagination for the Cardinals. They are from Arizona and that state has lots of Cacti, right?? So there you go, we made Arizona Cardinal "Cactuses!" Hey, give me a break, I tried!! :)

Anyways, it was fun and the cookies turned out yummy!

Rolling our the doughCutting out a Steeler's "star"

Decorating our cookies

YUMMY!!!

Our finished yellow Steeler "Stars" and red Cardinal "Cactuses"!

Icey Day Entertainment!

It's been pretty cold here in the "Big D" this week! We have been home bound because of ice, so that means no park, shopping, or outside adventures. I have been trying to keep Eloise entertained indoors and was running low on options. We had done Play Dough, painted, colored, read, watched plenty of noggin, had a tea party, played dress up, etc. So, I was desperate for a new activity. Today I got creative. I let El pull out all of the Tupperware and make Tupperware towers! It ended up being one of my favorite activities we did this week!

The mess begins!
The tower is taller than Eloise!
Right before the tower tumbles!

Afterwards Eloise got creative and made a Tupperware "chair" (Too bad she wouldn't smile for the camera!)

Tummy time and smiles!

Lucie has been doing tummy time a lot lately. We are trying to get her "trunk" (Neck and back) muscles stronger! She doesn't love it but, the other day when she was doing tummy time in bed she rolled over! I was a bit shocked, honestly. She has yet to do it again. I wonder if it had something to do with being on a soft mattress? Who knows, but her mommy was SO proud of her!

Lucie has also started smiling at us! I love it when I walk up and she gets a big grin! I think she may have inherited mommy's dimple too (but it isn't showing up in pictures!)

El kissing "sissy" during tummy time

Smiles!

BIG Smiles!

Story time with Daddy

The other night I was cleaning up after dinner and it was unusually quiet for our house. I wandered around looking for the family and found them in the guest room reading books! I took a picture because I thought it was so sweet to see my three favorite people readng together!

"Down to the river, and through the woods, to grandmothers house we go!!"

Last weekend we went to my parent’s river house in Seguin. It is so relaxing there and Eloise loves it (one day Lucie will too!) We had fun visiting, sitting by the campfire, hitting the after Christmas sales, going to the park, feeding the ducks, and taking tractor rides! On Saturday my parents watched the girls so Patrick and I could go on a date! We had a great time and can’t wait to go back again. Here are a few photos from our trip.

The view of the house from the river

Papa feeding the ducksCoCo and El down by the river!

Eloise LOVED duck watching!
Lucie stayin warm and napping in the portable swing!

At the park

Patrick and Eloise on a "tractor ride" with Papa as the driver!