Meeting our cousins

While visiting Nana and Papa we had Julie and Jamie come over. They have 2 kids, Lila and Jack. Lila was so sweet and I think had a great time playing with the girls. Jack is a very outgoing smiley boy. The boys certainly were fighting over the remote.

Playing at Nana and Papas house

Nana and Papas made their house so inviting and fun. Nana made a fairy garden for the girls that H added her own flowers to it. It included a house and benches for the fairies. It also had shells that collected water and became pools for the fairies. The girls now want to make one in our garden. The kids all swam including N who sat in his pool for a good 30 minutes cmpletely content. The girls were complaining of it being too cold so like good little servants Nana and Papa went off to bring warm water to the pool. They have them trained so well. Papa off course brought out his infamous friends Foxy and Buffy. Papa introduced his puppet friends when H was 2 years old and they have been a BIG hit ever since. Every night they came out to talk for a while and say goodnight. Nana cooked with L, always a favorite thing to do of hers. We also made friends with some neighborhood kids and dogs. H was very interested in learning how to train Prophet the dog next door. You will meet Prophet in a later post. Lisa (Prophets owner) was also so kind to bring the girls watering cans and that kept them busy for hours. Thank you Lisa!
What great memories of Nana and Papas house we have.

Dressup!

Oh how we love dress up in our family. It gets more fun with Nanas wedding dress and an old prom dress of mine! Lots of fun memories.

Trip to Nana and Papas

The first day after we got there we took a trip to tinytown. The girls had a great time climbing in and out of houses that were their size. We also enjoyed riding the train. My favorite house was a storybook house that had Prince Charmings clothes and Horton hatches an egg scene.

N is 6 months old now!

It has been 6 months now since N was born. He is such a smiley boy. He is now taking baths sitting up which he loves. He really likes splashing in the water. He is also rolling and scooting everywhere he wants to go. He gets on his knees and rocks back and forth too. It wont be long before he is crawling.

Fireworks

We are starting a tradition of going to a special spot for fireworks. We met our friends for pizza and brownies before hand. We always enjoy seeing Scott and Amy. Zoe is Ls friend in the picture, they had a great time. She is so animated. She asked me about 10 times if I liked fireworks and which ones were my favorite color. It was cute.
The next day we did sparklers. H loved it but L was scared of them.

Botanical gardens

We decide to check out the gardens at the University here today. We really enjoyed their green houses. We saw types of cactus that we had never heard of. We saw an wonderfully familiar Orange tree. Although it was much smaller than my Grandpas but I got a chance to smell the buds. YUMMY! They even had a coco tree. Look for the picture that has the red pods. There are white slimy beans inside that they dry out to make the coco beans. Their tropical room had a great little waterfall that the kids loved especially L whose foot accidentally slipped in. H loved seeing all the different plants and said the tropical room was her own private island. They had the sprinklers on so we tried to dodge them as much as possible. L found a big leaf to try and cover her head. We had a great time and will have to go back to see the rest soon.