8 Months and San Angelo SNOW

The girls and I took a trip to see Leelee and Paw the weekend before last. It was super fun. On our way we stopped and played with our San Antonio friends. There were three 3 yr olds and 3 under 3. It was a little wild but the kiddos and Mama's had a great time. Thanks to Bethany for letting us destroy their craft room. We all enjoyed pizza for lunch-mmmm Papa John's. After the kiddos were nice and tired we said our goodbyes to Rachel and Bethany and David, Catalina, James and baby Lucas and headed on our way. The girls were so tired the slept most of the way to San Angelo and didn't fuss a bit! We spent the rest of the weekend with Leelee and Paw. We got lots of visiting and fun in. It was super cold so we stayed in mostly. We did venture out to the mall on Saturday for LK to play in the new indoor playground and had Chic Fil A for lunch. On Sunday we had a fun surprise of SNOW. It was the first snow for the girls to see. Lena Kate was super fun and I was so happy they got to experience it with Leelee and Paw for the first time. I love making memories with my girls! After a fun weekend of visiting-we also got to see Great Mimi and Great Kelley-we loaded up and headed home. We stopped for lunch with my old boss Tim and let LK play at CFA-again. It was nice to have an extra hand getting in and out with the girls by myself:) A stop in San Antonio for lunch seems to be the best way to time a trip to Angelo since the girls did so well. Here are some pictures of the fun we had.

watching it snow

Paw helping get her coat on to go out in the snow

Trying to catch it on her tongue

snowballs with no gloves

My hands hurt!

Dogpile Mama!

Sisterly love

ready for bed

Leelee love

Bowen gal love and snuggles

I'm outta here!

Valentine's heart marshmallows in hot chocolate by the fire was perfect after stepping out in the cold!

Our little Miss Ainslee is 8 months old today! I can't believe it. She is such a joy and so much fun lately. She is getting better at sleeping through the night from about 9 pm until 5 am. If she wakes she can usually go back to sleep on her own within 15 minutes. She gets to snuggle with Mama for about 2 hours after I feed her at 5 am. I love those times. She is such a good snuggler. Little sister is ALL over the place and enjoying her mobility. She pulls up on everything possible. She is just a tiny thing to see standing up. She loves to play in Lena Kate's kitchen like a big girl. Ainlsee is also a pretty good eater. She likes her baby food and LOVES puffs and Cheerios by the handful. She is going to be a good eater, I think. She really wants table food but I'm holding off based on her doc's advice. She said the stop liking baby food as soon as you introduce other stuff and it is better for them to get the baby food and cereal for a few months. I'll start other stuff in a month or two. Mimi has given her an Oreo twice. She LOVED it. I think Miss Ainslee is going to have her mommy's sweet tooth, whereas Lena Kate would take a bag of chips over cookies any day.

I have been in a major Spring cleaning mode these last few days. I'm trying to purge out some unneeded stuff. We have a rummage sale at church next week, so hopefully I'll have time to pile up some more unneeded stuff!

She is going to be our sneaky one. I tell her know and she looks at me and then just grins!!! Uh oh! She is also very persistent. Oh, does she love Big Sister. Lena Kate enjoys entertaining her and Ainslee just eats it up. LK calls her "Ains" sometimes-so cute. I can't believe she is going to be one year old in a few months.

In other news, I finally got an i phone and got rid of our home phone. It just didn't seem worth paying for, so that allowed me to get a data package and upgraded phone-yippee. Lane has been good to me lately :)

Lena Kate is a fun as ever. She is now into imaginary friends. She has a cat named Quasi that she has been keeping around for the last few days. It cracks me up. She also has a list of places she is going to go: Disney World, school, Chuck E Cheese's, and recently added the zoo.

Children's time story of the week: Pastor Patti was asking LK what a bag of school supplies were and she named them all and said that Daddy used a ruler (which he does). She asked LK where we take all these things and her response was-to the dining room table. This was the right answer for her! She does crafts and uses supplies at the dining room table. Of course, Pastor Patti was looking for the answer school. LK then said, "I'M GOING TO SCHOOL, and DISNEY WORLD!" One day, my child, one day.

I've given up candy for lent and am trying not to bake anything just to have around the house-wish me luck!!!