Diana came to Texas pt 1

My sister Diana came to town this week.  Violet loves Diana and has really enjoyed having Diana here.  Diana's been watching Violet while I take Peter to work so I can have the car and  the first morning Violet crawled onto the bed with Diana, patted her shoulder and whispered hey...hey.  The next morning she crawled up next to her lay down on her tummy and put her arm around Diana and when back to sleep.  Diana thought it was really cute.  Here is Violet watching Diana texting.

We went to a great mexican restaurant and Violet liked the chips and salsa until she got a really spicy bite and Peter had to take her outside to calm her down.  Violet also had her first Margarita :) it was Mango with Passion fruit...yum!

We went to the zoo this afternoon and I am taking a lot of animal pictures because I'm making Violet an ABC book for her birthday... this one is going to be Y for YIKES! a Giant snake!!  not seriously but it was a huge snake.

This is called a Okipa and the woman next to us very astutely pointed out that, that thing "has a Stripe ED butt!"  Welcome to Texas.

Violet showing the Cuban Croc how dig for gold.

Diana being cute.

Violet trying cotton candy for the first time... we had to show her that you ate it.  It was a little confusing for her, but she eventually caught on and really liked it. (of course she liked it.... it's pure sugar!)

Diana painted Violet's toe nails hot pink this morning, she did pretty well until the very end when Violet kicked her and ended up with a hot Pink toe!  Diana stopped after that so Violet only has one side painted.

We went to a great Texas steakhouse called Salt Grass, it was so yummy, I wish Violet was looking at  the camera in the picture, we have a succession of pictures where we are each taking turns looking in the wrong direction, this was Violet's.

Violet wearing some of Diana's Glasses, aren't they cool!

Here is video of Violet getting her toes painted she starts to kind of giggle.  it was pretty cute.

Easter!

For Easter we had Emily and Jonathan and the boys over for a fun easter egg hunt in our little park.   The dads went and hid the eggs in the park while Emily and I got the kids shoes on and then we went out and had a fun hunt.  I've got some videos that I'm working on uploading.  we had a lot of fun.  We had a little lunch and I tried a recipe from my childhood, Elizabeth use to make rainbow jello for Alexis and I ( I don't remember it but Alexis insisted that I'd eaten it) It turned out really good.  If you want to give it a try go to www.cooks.com and search rainbow Jello fingers, The white stuff is sweetened condensed milk.
Here is this weeks Prego picture. 20 weeks! This baby is getting big and starting to kick me a lot.  I'm halfway done and looking forward to this being over!

I think it may be time to potty train, Violet has become obsessed with putting toilet paper in the potty and saying bye bye!

Violet making sure there is enough TP in the toilet.  Oh joy.

Our little easter Princess, heading down the stairs to church, it was just starting to rain and by the time we got to church it was pouring and we were in the middle of a Tornado watch!  We survived and by the time we left church it was a beautiful sunny day and mid 70's!  The weather in Texas can be crazy!  I have a video of it pouring buckets of rain maybe I'll post that too!

Violet relaxing with her easter eggs last night.  These are the eggs she found in the Hunt and we just put them in her basket with a few special easter treats for this morning.  I have been working on Enrichment a lot lately.  We've finally been able to get some activities up and running and I'm really excited about it.  Check out our enrichment blog www.friendswoodfirstenrichment.blogspot.com!  We are having a women's retreat in a few weeks and I get to go to Louisiana for the first time.  I'm very excited about that.

Here is video of the hunt.  We had so much fun.  Wesley was really the only one who really got it.  Violet wanted to swing and Sam enjoyed shaking one for a while and that was pretty much it.  Wesley had a blast!  Next year will be really fun, when all three will probably understand it more.

This is Violet and Wesley on the See Saw at our park.

The Easter Bunny came this morning.  Violet really enjoyed herself.  We have eggs all over our living room now.

I'm figuring it out

This is my favorite picture form our Houston trip, would like to enlarge and mount on the wall are these the cutest kids in the world or what. Have a real funny day Ole Dad

Nesting

I have a severe case of nesting syndrome.  This is a primitive act that soon to be Mothers go through, basically I am tearing apart my house and reorganizing everything!  I am coming up on 5 months this week and that is about when I had a severe burst of nesting with Violet.  Peter came home to find me rearranging our bedroom furniture ( this included moving a king size mattress around to just the right spot!)  Today my nesting instinct hit the closets.  I just couldn't handle having my shoe rack out in the entry way anymore but I couldn't fit it in the closet unless I did some major rearranging.  So here is a picture of my closet all organized and clean.  I am so proud.
The next closet was the storage closet.  Here is a picture of what it looked like before. It would make any non pregnant person crazy so you can imagine what it was doing to my temporarily insane mind. So everything had to come out! 

Here is everything out in the living room.  Violet had a great time helping me open everything and throwing things around.  I got a lot more done when she finally fell asleep and took a nap.

Here is the storage closet after.  All the baby clothes are organized by size and there is a box of Unisex items handy in case this baby turns out to be a boy. and I put things in there based on how soon I would need them so my High School yearbooks are in the back corner and the stroller is right in front.  Overall it was a day well spent.  Next on the nesting list is the Kitchen ( particularly my tupperware cupboard), the bathrooms, and my craft/office shelves.  I am strangely looking forward to this.  Pregnancy makes you truly insane.  Below is Violet's Video, she is whining for her Bink I Thought it was pretty funny.  She has been going without her Bink quite a bit except for the last two days she has been a little sick. 

General Conference Saturday

Emily and Jonathan don't know Peter took this Picture.  Note to Wesley and Sam: Your parents are exhausted, please sleep through the night more often!! :)

Violet and Wesley went swimming in our little splash pool in between conference sessions, Sam was napping but V and W had a great time! We didn't put a swim diaper on Violet and this is a pic of how we tested the absorbency.  It was one full diaper by the time she got out of the pool!
Well I guess it is conference weekend so a prayer in the pool is appropriate :)

Two Cute kids in the pool.
V and W splashing around, we had to refill the pool several times.

18 weeks etc etc.

Violet Kicking Back, probably watching a blues clues.  She has laid like this in bed since she was brand new.  I wonder if the new baby will do something like this too.

Violet really likes to play with the camera and this is a picture of what happens when you tell this 2 year old in training no!

We'll take a real family picture soon, but I just thought Violet's face was so cute in this one.
this is me at 18 weeks, by the time I get this up I'll be 19 weeks.  I'm feeling great and excited to be almost halfway done!

Bill and Michele are finally going to live in the same Country!!!

Just a quick note to say that Bill is home from Brazil, and Michele will be getting on a plane Thursday and should arrive Friday Morning!  I am so excited.  I wish I could be there.