Friday, April 29, 2011

Making Chocolate Pudding Pie

To welcome Daddy home from a business trip to Chicago, we made him a chocolate pudding pie. I had both of my little helpers on the counter!

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Elisabeth looking up the recipe on my phone…

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Clara after taste testing…

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Spring!

We celebrated Spring and its attendant cultural traditions by dyeing eggs, making nest cookies, and having an egg hunt with friends. Most of the footage is on video, which I haven’t yet figured out how to retrieve and post, but here is a sweet snapshot of our nest cookies!

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Playing in the fountain

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Elisabeth loves to get wet in the fountain, but Clara prefers to stand back, holding the hose and controlling the water flow by bending it!

Thursday, April 14, 2011

At Grammy’s House!

Nathan went out of town on business so the girls and I headed to Orlando! The flight there was so smooth and we had a great time enjoying family and the pool! Nathan joined us when he finished his work in Chicago so we were all able to fly back together!

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Elisabeth enjoyed her first popsicle at Grammy’s house! It was a hit!

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Clara and Grammy reading ‘Duck and His Friends’ – a vintage book. Clara walked around for several days quoting the book – “Duck is a fine fellow!”

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Clara loved all the flowers and spent a great deal of time both in the front and back of the house looking at and picking blossoms.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Texas Bluebonnets

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Sweet sisters and..

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Sweet friends!

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These pictures turned out great (thanks, Kacey!) but belie the chaos that is involved in herding four children 3 and under into a limited patch of flowers and away from the high way! The first patch we stopped at was sparser and near a road that, although it looked like a little-used side road, had trucks barreling down it. After chasing the littles around there, we loaded them up and sought bluer, safer fields. Unfortunately the best patches were on private property, but we saw a gate open at a ranch and drove in. A white pick-up was on its way out and I hopped out of the kiddie caravan and asked the driver if we could take pictures on his property. He seemed amused and kindly let us romp around, safely behind the ranch fence!

After our photo shoot, we enjoyed a delicious, but also somewhat chaotic lunch at Must Be Heaven in Brenham. At one point I made a potty run with the three girls. All three of the potty-trained persons used the toilet and I changed Elisabeth’s diaper while she was standing on the counter because she refused to lie down and also not bother the vintage ladies hats that were decorating the powder room! Another adventure, for sure!

Saturday, April 2, 2011

A great Saturday

It started with donuts – Dunkin’ Donuts – and coffee (one of the first cups I enjoyed this pregnancy), then a sleepy big girl joined us, then a cuddly little one…

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Then we headed to the West Houston Airport for a WWII airplane show and flyover. As we watched the planes fly in, Clara picked wild flowers and Bitty waved. Clara was able to explore several planes, as well. She was so intense as she looked at the instruments and practiced pulling back on the yoke and looked so small inside the cockpit!

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