New Braunfels Children's Museum (Nov '10)

The week Rob had off back in November we also took Sophia to a small, but really fun Children's Museum. As you can see all 3 of my children enjoyed it.

Hands down Sophia's favorite was the painting. She could have stayed in that room all day.

4 people- January

This isn't the first time I've copied been inspired by Tara Whitney. Remember my new favorite photo wall in my house.
So this time I'm attempting her 6 people 12 times project, only my will be 4 people 12 times. I thought it was a great idea and it would motivate me to get more family photos. I'm usually the one behind the camera and not in front of it. It will also make me journal a little more of what is going on month to month.
Here's our first month photo. It was pretty nice weather on the day we took it.
January started off kind of sad. On the first day of the new year we said good-bye to my parents and drove them to the airport after enjoying a wonderful visit from them ( yet to be blogged about). Rob also started another hard rotation that day and worked so many hours last month. The weather was a little cold and rainy the first week or 2 and then it finally cleared up. We enjoyed temps in the 60s and 70s for most of the month. That meant playing in the backyard everyday, several times a day. Sophia got a new swing set for Christmas and it's already gotten a lot of use. We were loving this Texas winter until this week. (It just got super cold and it's suppose to snow at the end of the week!)
Sophia continues to love everything girly- Disney princess, Barbie, Strawberry Shortcake. She'll watch any show or movie with the above listed stars. She met 2 new friends this month, Polly and Henry (imaginary friends that is). We went and toured a few pre-k schools this month for the fall and she was so excited. She keeps asking if she is going to school today. I keep telling her,"No. You'll go in August." It's hard to believe that in about a 1 1/2 she'll be going to kindergarten. She's also enjoying her new board games she got for Christmas- Candy land and Hi-Ho Cherry-O. She still doesn't play by all the rules but she's getting the hang of them.

The sisters continue to love each other. Sophia loves to give Scarlett hugs and kisses and says what a cute baby she is all the time. Scarlett loves to watch Sophia run around and play. It brings her lots of smiles and giggles.

Scarlett turned 8 months old this month. She's still not mobile, but getting closer. Still not very keen on baby food, so I just try to give her whatever we're eating as long as it's soft. Everything she touches goes in her mouth. She must be teething the way she tries to chews on everything, including her toes :) She also loves to be outside. Sadly at the end of the month she came down with a nasty virus of some sort that lasted for days. She was so miserable. It was so hard to see her suffer like that. She's pretty much back to her normal self now.

The girls of course continue to keep me busy. We also enjoyed some playgroups from church and our resident spouse Alliance group. My TV shows started back up this month. These 3 guilty pleasures include: Gossip Girl, Vampire Diaries, and Grey's Anatomy. I also enjoy most of the NBC Thursday night line up.

Rob is going to have a little more time off in February so we are looking forward to that.

10 Years! (Nov 2010)

Yes, saying that and typing it make me feel old. When I look at our engagement photos that I have on a counter in the kitchen I see how young we both looked when we got married. Young or not we're still in LOVE and that's all that matters. To celebrate we went out to eat! That may not be a big deal for most, but to us it is. (remember we live off of a small resident salary) It was fun to go out and eat and just have a few hours to ourselves without the kids. We tried Mi Tierra and it did not disappoint. It's no secret I heart Mexican food and could eat it everyday of the week. I had some tamales covered in a meat gravy sauce. Delish! The restaurant has a really fun atmosphere with the decorations and all! It was a perfect evening to celebrate our marriage.

First food and first fire (Nov 2010)

Back in November Scarlett started rice cereal. Her face tells it all. I've had the hardest time getting her to eat solids (that is baby food). She has just not been interested. She still continued to grow healthy and strong though. Plenty of chubs to go around. Her Mamma's milk is all she needs. Just over the past couple of weeks has she been able to pick up puffs and other finger foods and put them in her mouth. So maybe we'll just skip over all that pureed stuff and move into the good stuff.

It also got cold enough to build fires in November. So we all enjoyed that.

Christmas Card Photo shoot

I'm surprised I even got a few good ones. It was so hard to get them both to cooperate and Scarlett wasn't yet sitting up by herself. That really limited the poses I could put them in together. (These were taken at the end of October).

More October 2010

She looks like sleeping beauty, but really this is her Cinderella dress. ( Well actually it was some kind of Barbie dress picked up at a yard sale for a couple dollars. It was blue though so it soon became her Cinderella dress.) This dress was one of the bribes that helped us with potty training. We mastered that back in September.



On one of Daddy's very few days off in October he helped Sophia carve her pumpkin. She said he look Maaadddd.

The girls dressed up 3 days in a row for Halloween. The first party we went to was for residents and their families so we saw if fitting to dress Scarlett up in her pink Scrubs. Sophia was Cinderella all 3 days.

The Dr.'s

She was so happy to where her dress out of the house to the parties.


There was also trick-or-treating with friends. We only made it to a couple of houses though. Sophia was tired and I was more than happy to just go out for a few mins. The girls and I went out without Daddy, because you can all guess where he was (hospital, of course.)

Scarlett also dressed up as bat girl. This was Sophia's first Halloween costume. It was fun to see another baby girl in it.

Earlier in the month we also went to the zoo to see the Elephant's smash the pumpkins. It was fun and the weather was perfect, but it's overrated.

A lot of Catching up to do

I know I haven't blogged in months, but I've been taking lots of photos and having so much fun with my girls. My parents also came to town for Christmas. It was so amazing having them here. Rob only had 4 days off last month. So we enjoyed the few he had and even enjoyed a date to the movies while my parents watched the girls.

I plan on starting to blog again and catch up on the holidays. Until then enjoy one princess in front of the tree and the other princess decorating her Gingerbread house.