Time for swimming!

One thing I love about Texas is the short, mild winters and early summers. Granted the summers are LONG and HOT, but that really only lasts a few months and the rest of the year is great. We actually went swimming for the first time this year in February when we had a short warm spell, however, it didn't warm long enough for the water to get warm so I put the swim suits away for a while longer! These last couple of weeks we've stayed pretty consistently in the 80's so I thought we'd try again. The girls absolutely LOVE the water. Melody has a life jacket from last year and she just goes. She doesn't need our help at all. And the toy Katie is playing with was given to us last year by a neighbor. I didn't even know them, but they were at the pool one day the same time we were and she asked me if I wanted it. Score! Free toys are always good!

At any rate we had a blast! We usually only stay for about an hour so I'm really glad we have a pool in the complex. I'd hate to pay to go swimming for an hour! I also put a video in the bottom bar.

Sweet Sister

Melody has her moments when I'd really like to ring her neck, or sell her to the zoo, or tie her to the ceiling. However, she also has her moments where she is just sweet. I like to think once we get past this 'I'm the boss and decide everything we do and there's nothing you can do about it' stage she'll really be a wonderful little girl to be around *fingers crossed*

One thing she really enjoys is making her sister laugh. She's as shameless as Jared when it comes to getting a laugh out of Katie. When I'm finishing lunch I'll put Katie in her high chair and she always gets mad that I dared put her there with no food. I'll ask Mellie to make her sister laugh and she almost takes it as a personal challenge. It never fails she gets Katie giggling one way or another!

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Easter

I'm a little behind in my posting because of our impromptu vacation to Utah that was not nearly long enough! We ended up being on the road on Easter because we extended our stay in St. George one more day so we didn't really celebrate. I don't feel too guilty though since the kids are still to little to understand. I did, however, get dresses for them. Really any excuse to buy my girls cute clothes is something I'll jump on! I tried to get some posed pictures, but in the end I just started snapping pictures as fast as a could. I think they turned out pretty good considering I'm an amature at this picture taking thing! I just loved the ones of Melody with her fly away hair and skinned knees! She may not ever achieve at being a little lady, but she sure is a lot of fun! Katie was more interested in exploring what she could find on the ground than the fact that I was trying to get her to look at me which is why in most of the pictures she's looking at the ground. My silly beautiful girls!

The zoo!

Wahoo! We were able to get out to the Forth Worth Zoo today! I've never enjoyed the zoo as much as I did today. We went with our friend Ydais and her little one Emily. Melody and Emily ran all over the place and had a ton of fun! Katie crashed about half way through, but what she did see she was very excited about. Jared took a TON of pictures and it seems like they all turned out really, really good! What I don't get in this post I'll put in a slide show on the side bar.

This is right inside the entrance, The kids were really good just hanging out while we got everything together and figured out where we were going.

This little monkey wouldn't stay in her seat! I felt kinda bad strapping her in but if you watch the video in the bottom video bar you'll understand!

These chimps were the first animal we saw and I thought Katie was going to jump out of my arms! She was ready to play and tried her hardest to get into the pen!

Melody and Emily were captivated from the beginning with all the different animals. It was hard to get them away from each exhibit so we could get through it all!

She was so excited she pointed at everything and exclaimed over it all!
They were all so happy and pretty well behaved. It was kinda weird having such well behaved children for so many hours!Melody was so taken with these flamingos that she actually climbed in the fence and tried to touch them!
I've never seen Flamingos in real life. They are the most beautiful birds!
If you look at the stroller you'll see two little legs sticking out. Emily was in the back and Melody sat in the front. They rode like this most of the trip. You can also see Ydais's baby belly! She's due in September and she's going to be so mad that I posted this!

This picture took an incredible amount of work to get! The girls would not all look at the camera at the same time!

This is all we heard about from the beginning! 'Where's the alligators and elephants?' Of course they were on opposite ends of the park.
My little Katie is so cute, but can you see the mischief in her eyes?
This is NOT the most attractive picture of me, but it does demonstrate Katie's wiggly craziness quite well!

And here we see how we handle Katie's craziness!

Don't they look like they're conspiring?

They were actually trying to hug, but I guess at two there still some practicing left to do!

My clever little girl! She couldn't see the giraffes so she came over, took the break off the stroller, and moved it over to the fence so she could see better. Jared and I watched on amused at her deductive reasoning skills.

Here Emily was showing us her impressive wing span!

There's also three video's in the video bar at the bottom of the page. I'll post the slide shows some time in the next few days.

you know sometimes...

This is Melody's most commonly used phrase and what comes after it can be surprising. Here's a list of the things she's followed that with in the last few weeks.

• ...it's too hard to poop!
• ...I just get soooo mad!
• ...your singing hurts my ears.
• ...you're my best friend.
• ...I just don't want to be your best friend.
• ...you make me frustrated.
• ...it's hard to wait.

She cracks me up sometimes with her astute observations!