Mason's first model rocket

Mason at the dentist

First swing ride

Morgan was sleeping while we were at the park this morning, so only
Megan got to experience this sweet ride. I'm pretty sure she enjoyed it.

Shhhhhh

It's piano time - Megan can now stand and play

Naked Mo & Bows and Teeth

After we took the bluebonnet pictures, I took off the girls' dresses so I didn't get them messy. I fed the babies their lunch without clothes on. Since they are the cutest things ever, I had to take a couple of pictures. Here is naked Baby Mo with her cute little ponytail. And then here's Megan showing her pearly whites for you. Megan's hair is much shorter than Morgan's so her ponytail doesn't curl back over, it just stands straight up. There's not even enough to do the fold over thing, (where you tuck the hair into the last loop of the rubber band.) I think she still is cute though.

Hoppin' Hippo

Last week I took the kids and went to Hoppin' Hippo. It's a cool indoor play place with bounce houses, a two-story playhouse, a playscape (climbing structure with a slide) and even a little area for the babies. I put the girls in the baby area and they did great. I like this play zone a lot because of the colors and the activities on some of the panels, but it doesn't fold up very compact. However, I very much liked the rubber squares they have underneath the play zone. Since they are rubber, they are very easy to clean; when baby spits up, grab a wipe and your done. At our house, the Superyard is just on the carpet. So if a baby spits up, I have to get down and scrub the carpet. And every once in a while we break out the carpet cleaner and give the carpet a good scrubbin'. I'm thinking about putting these rubber squares down on my carpet to help with the constant drool/spit up coming from my girls' mouths. What do you think?

Yeah for toast!

Since Morgan has some teeth now, she has been expressing a little more interest in table food. I'm still hesitant to give it to her since she doesn't seem to know what to actually do with the food once she does have it. If I put something like Cheerios directly into her mouth, she moves it around a little and then ends up chocking on it. So for now, we're sticking to the bigger things. Like toast. Here are a couple of pictures of Morgan and her first piece of toast. First she licked it and the she was waving it all around.

Silly baby

I can't remember if I posted this or not, so here it is again. This is
Morgan's little sea horse bath toy. This is how she plays with it. She
gets it's belly in her mouth and then that's it. Morgan keeps this toy
in her mouth for a long time (probably only a minute or two really).
It is so funny!

Teeth for Morgan

Morgan has some teeth. YEAH! She has one one the bottom and one on the top. I have been trying desperately to get a photo of them, but having no such luck. As soon as I figure out ow to get her to show them to me, I'll shoot them and then you can see.

Coloring easter eggs

Bluebonnets

Well, I tried to do it all by myself and the results are OKAY. Yes, I tried to take the kids, all 4, and get pictures of them in a patch of bluebonnets. First of all, where the heck did all the flowers go? Two years ago, the huge park by our house, Old Settlers Park, was filled with bluebonnets and a bunch of other wild flowers. They made for some real pretty pictures. (Not that I took any.) This year, there are none, zip, zilch, zero. I guess the park people are going for a more green look with just the grass? Not sure, but no more bluebonnets at Old Settlers. So around the corner from our house, someone planted some bluebonnets out on their parkway, the little strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street. They are beautiful and so full. This is the biggest patch I could find, without putting my kids in real danger. (There are a few large patches, but on the side of major highways.) Anyway, I had seen some other folks taking pictures in these people's yard last week and I stopped by and asked permission from the home owners. After I got the okay, I attempted to take some photos.

Today Maggie had her Easter party at school and she was dresses real pretty and I did her hair real cute this morning. So right before we left to pick her up from school, I dressed the babies in these way cute dresses we got at the baby shower a year ago (wow, really? a year ago?). I put their hair in little pony tails and stuck in some bows. We get Maggie (she sill looks clean and her hair isn't too messed up) and head for home to take some pictures. I get to the neighbor's house, unload Mason, Maggie and Megan. Getting ready to take out Morgan to find out that I forgot the camera at home. Great! Load up the 3 kids and drive around the block, grab the camera, drive back around the block. I unload again and get the big kids and Megan positioned. I gave Morgan to Mason since she cannot sit up on her own yet. I sat out in the street and just started shooting. I didn't even really look in the camera, just at the kids. I must've looked like a crazy woman sitting in the street calling to my kids in a high pitch baby voice. "Mason, Maggie, look at the camera. Megan, Morgan, Megan, Megan, Megan, Morgan." (all in a sing-song voice of course.) I then decided to try and get some of just Megan. Turned out not too bad.Until she started whining and I saw these little red ants crawling on her feet. YIKES! I quickly picked her up and brushed her off. I don't think she got bit at all, probably just a little uncomfortable with the little creepy crawlers on her.

Then I put Morgan in the patch. Since Morgan can't sit on her own, I opted to leave her in her car seat for these pictures. (No ants either this way.) She did great! And I'm actually please with these pictures. So I then took all the kids back home. My next door neighbor, George, has a little planter with some bluebonnets too. I really wanted to get a couple of shots with Morgan laying down so I tried to take a few here. I layed down the blanket (a knitted one with holes in it) and got Mason, Maggie and Megan ready. Then Megan and Maggie start complaining. I guess the grass patch had a bunch of little stickers in it and they were poking the girls through the blanket. So I ran next door, grabbed a couple more blankets and tried again. (Mason had to run to the bathroom, so he missed being in these shots.) I did get a few with all three girls. These turned out okay.

So what I have I learned from this experience? Um, not to do it again! I need help next time. It was just too hard to get all the kids to look at the camera, much less smile, look out for bees, and cars, watch to see the my babies didn't actually eat the flowers, oh, and man the camera. Yes, too many things for me. I think next year, we'll have some really fantastic friend take the pictures for us.

Enjoy the pictures!

Mason on an anti-aircraft gun

Dad, Mason, Poppa Dennis and Uncle Scott went to the Nimitz museum in
Fredericksburg, TX.

The big kids at the Alamo

Eating ice cream at the River Walk

The big kids sitting with uncle Scott