Our Soccer Star!

Elizabeth wanted to play soccer this year (to her dad's delight) and we had our first practice on Tuesday. We missed the team's first practice because E was sick. Here she is, running after her ball.
Stretching - how old are they?! I just keep thinking of Elizabeth as my little girl, but she's getting so big! On her first sports team, wow!

Running fast down the field. She had so much fun. We were supposed to have our first game this weekend but we've had lots of rain, so it won't be until next weekend. I hope she continues to like soccer so much!

Monday Playgroup and Tuesday at the Zoo

We had playgroup at our house this week. We had fun playing out front of our house for a while -the weather was so nice so we played bubbles, rode bikes, and colored with chalk.

This is Baylee, a new big sister in our group. She just had a baby sister about 2 weeks ago.

This is Robin and her boys - one of the moms in our group. On Tuesday it was zoo walk day. The parents are invited to join the kids on their walk through the zoo. I never get good pictures of the kids at the zoo - I'm not sure why. I guess cause they are so busy looking at the animals and I can never get the kids and the animals together in a picture...so I got pictures of the animals instead. I wanted a picture of the baby lions. 2 of them are wrestling together. We saw them when they were first born and were so small! Now they are getting pretty big.
I don't know if you can see it but there is a meerkat running on a rock in the back of the habitat. That is the animal of the week for Elizabeth this week.

This is what our group looks like as we walk through the zoo together. We make a big group!

Elizabeth's Dress

I found this fabric at Hobby Lobby and decided to try to make a dress out of it. It's already gathered at the top, so all I needed to do was sew it down the back (theoretically).

The pictures are a different story. I wanted to take a picture of E in her dress and this is what I got.

Turn around Elizabeth!

Hello - where are you Elizabeth?

Finally she turned around. The dress was a lot harder than I thought it would be for me. I had to add another layer underneath it because it was a little short and see through. And, I realized, I'm just not that great at measuring and making sure everything is even (like on all the hems). Oh well, I got it done, and I think it turned out alright! I have one more type of fabric like this so I hope I am able to do it again!

Questions for a 3 Year Old

My friend Chrissy had this list of questions that she asked her daughter - and I thought it would be fun to ask Elizabeth the same questions. The questions are for Elizabeth to answer about me. I was very curious to see what she would say. Here is goes!

What is something Mommy always says to you?
Hi. That was it at first. I asked - anything else? Then she replied - I love you.

What makes mom happy?
If I give her a kiss and hug and I love her.

What makes mom sad?
When Ben throws his food on the floor.

How does your mom make you laugh?
Tickles me.

How old is your mom?
29

How tall is your mom?
Big (thanks sweetie :)

What is her favorite thing to do?
Play with me and Ben

What does your mom do when you are not around?
I don't know - I don't see you. I asked if she had to guess - she said watch t.v.

What is your mom really good at?
Lifting weights (What ?? :) Cause you're so strong (awww)

What is your mom not really good at?
I can't really think of anything (my kind of girl)

What does your mom do for a job?
Scrapbook

What is your mom's favorite food?
Chicken pockets (her favorite)

What makes your mom proud?
If I give her a hug and I love her

What do you and your mom do together?
Play games

How are you and your mom the same?
We both have yellow hair.

How are you different?
You are bigger and I am small.

How do you know your mom loves you?
Cause she gives me lots of hugs.

What does your mom like most about your dad?
He gives her kisses on your cheeks and hugs.

What is your mom's favorite place to go?
Little Gym

Hope you had a good Monday!

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Cooper's Birthday and Fun at the Park

Cooper had his second birthday last weekend. Unfortunately I guess I was too busy holding Ben so I really didn't get to take too many pictures...so here's the cute birthday boy. We had a lot of fun with all the kids at the party - I guess you'll have to take my word for it since I don't have any pictures :).

On Friday Elizabeth was finally starting to feel better so we went to the park with some friends.

The kids like trying out different parks rather than the one right up the streeet. This one was fun because it had a giant sandbox,


And a bridge that went over a stream with ducks in it. The kids had so much fun feeding them.

We tried really hard to get a picture of all the kids together. It finally almost worked (one is missing in the group). It seems like spring is here in Texas. We'll see if it is here to stay yet!

Bubbles and Chalk

Still trying to recooperate with Elizabeth we decided to just take it easy and play with bubbles and chalk in the driveway. Ben loves his bubble gun.

Elizabeth does too.

He sat here for about 15 minutes just redipping his bubbles over and over again. It got so slippery on our driveway, it was like an ice skating rink. We're finally feeling a little better over here so we actually met some friends at a park today. I'll have to post those tomorrow!

Blast from the Past

So we've done nothing much these past 2 days except hang out, color, watch some shows, read some books, etc... Elizabeth is getting much better, but I didn't have much to post so I thought I'd post some pics of the kids when they were little. Here's Elizabeth and Ben - I think E is about 2 years old and Ben is about 3 months.

Ben at about 1 month? I think? He doesn't look at all like himself here (in my opinion)

Elizabeth - maybe 4 months old? I could go back and check all these dates, but I'll just guess. I'm too lazy!
Ben at about 1 month old - again - I think he has changed so much!
Elizabeth - maybe 4 or 5 months old. She looks like she has blue eyes, doesn't she? Now they are hazel.

I'm sure you can guess who is here with Ben, it's Cooper. Aren't they so cute and little?!

Ben and Cooper - looking more like themselves I think.

Such a happy baby! Maybe we'll have something to post tomorrow...we'll see!

Bike Riding and Necklace Making

Elizabeth woke up feeling much better today so we decided to get out of our germ filled house to ride bikes. Unfortunately this caused Elizabeth to start coughing, so we decided to pack it up and go inside. She decided she wanted to have the training wheels taken off her bike, tried it for a few minutes, and decided they should go back on.
Ben got this new bike from cousin Josh (he is riding a new bike without training wheels!!) so we decided it was time for him to learn to ride. He had a difficult time getting the pedals to keep moving. I guess we need to practice!

While hanging out on the couch yesterday and today we made bead necklaces.

What's with that face?! Crazy!! :)

Thanks for the good wishes/prayers in the comments. We love to get comments, and you all left such sweet ones last post! Thanks! :)

Walking Pneumonia and Edible Playdough

The kids and I made some edible play dough this weekend - and it was really good! They had so much fun playing with it, too.
I saw the recipe on Jon and Kate Plus Eight -
it's 1 part peanut butter
1 part powdered milk (this part grossed me out so next time I think I'll use powdered sugar, even though it won't be nearly as healthy)
1 part honey

That's it! You mix it all together and give the kids spoons, plastic knives, cookie cutters, etc...


This was so funny! Elizabeth and I were making her bed (the window was open) and we heard a little girl's voice saying "Hi, Elizabeth. I can hear you!" Elizabeth went to her window and could see our neighbor girl, who is 6, standing on her fence, peeking over the top. The 2 of them stayed like this for a half an hour, talking to each other. Then they would say, "wait right there" and they would go get some special item to show one another. I just had to laugh, it's funny it occupied them for so long!
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On another note, Elizabeth has walking pneumonia! So say some prayers for us that it really is just walking pneumonia that responds well to the antibiotics. After Elizabeth was hospitalized 2 years ago with pneumonia, we're a little paranoid about this little illness! So I probably won't have a lot of stuff to write about this week, we're just going to be hanging low, trying to recover.
Have a good week!