Mommy goes out

Tracy went to see Yaz (Yazoo) last night. I hear they sounded great and she had fun...until a man asked her to be quiet so that he could hear better and not be disturbed as he texted his friends on his iPhone.

Charlotte seems like she feels better today. She got a catheter (sp?) yesterday to check for an infection. Ugh!!

Grumpy Girls

We have 2 grumpy girls. Charlotte still wakes up 2-3 times a night. Then she wants to get up at 5AM each morning. Not workable in our little house. If we get up with her, we make noise and it wakes Aubrey up. That means Aubrey woke up too early and is grumpy all day. So we try and make Charlotte sleep in. That doesn't work either. Then the dogs jump down when they hear that we're awake and they wake anyone up who's not already awake. So now Mommy and Daddy are grumpy too.

Galveston

Went to Galveston over the weekend for Uncle Mikey's wedding. Rented a little house on the beach. Got little sleep...but this time (as opposed to our disasterous attempt last year) everything worked out. Aubrey loved the beach. She slept on her mattress on the floor. She played with cousins and Grandpa. Progress.

My 3 girls on the beach. Charlotte mosly wanted to eat sand. But she did have fun swimming as well.

Aubrey was the flower girl at the wedding. She did a great job hurling the flowers to the ground in bunches.

The last night there we went to hunt for hermit crabs with grandpa. Lots of fun. Aubrey held the crabs and helped pick them out of the water.

This is the beach in front of our house. It was wonderful waking up and walking out onto the porch to see the waves and hear them crashing. Since Aubrey would wake up each night in a panic I would go sleep next to her until morning. She'd wake me up and we'd creep outside to munch on cinnamon rolls as the sun rose. Wonderful.

More updates

Angela and Danny brought over the kids to swim the other day. Aubrey and Daniela prcticed their synchronized dives.

Luka hung out with daddy, ate hot dogs and went down the slide.

Summer's here. That means daily "iceycones".

Another chapter in Aubrey's quest to be friends with all living creatures. The butterfly. Yes - it's alive and yes it is sitting happily on her hand. "got to be careful Daddy", she chides me when I get too close.

Aubrey entertained us the other day with a dance. I'll try and post the video this week as well. It was....um...interesting.

And more smiles.

Charlotte is just about to crawl. She's up and rocking. Aubrey offers to help.

Update 1

Smiles.

Lest we forget who is also a "baby".

And more smiles.

This is how we like to wake Aubrey up from her nap. We stick Charlotte into the crib with her.

Mother's Day

For Mother's Day we went to see the horse races at Lone Star Park. It was crowded and noisy, but the girls all loved it. We had never been, so it was fun for us. Especially since we got there late and the gates were open...so...free! Everyone got dressed up to see the horses run around. We bet in $1 bills mostly and walked away $.80 richer.
Notice the basketball game on the TV. Tracy had to watch "ass face" Kobe play against "stupid" Spurs to see which team moved on.
Awwww.

5 Months and other fun

Part I in Aubrey's never-ending quest to be friends with all living creatures:

The best $7 I've spent on Aubrey - a bag of 1700 live ladybugs. We went to buy some plants and I saw this at the counter. They're supposed to eat other bugs that eat your plants (our cannas!!). So I bought it and Aubrey wanted to hold it on the way home. And of course she couldn't wait to open the bag once we got home. The bugs crawled all over her and she had a blast for the next 3 hours.

Charlotte is 5 months old! So crazy. Still the best baby ever. She slept all the way through the night last night. 10PM to 6:30AM. Ahhhhh.........

At 5 months she: loves oatmeal (we just added a swirl of bananas!), can stand as long as she wants as long as we help her balance, is just about sitting up, loves to talk and gurgle, wants to be asleep around 7:30 or she gets REALLY upset, loves to take baths with her sister and kick and splash around, and always wants to smile and smile and smile!

Part II in Aubrey's never-ending quest to be friends with all living creatures:

I caught a lizard the other day. He didn't move much. I think he was old and headed for the great fly hunting ground in the sky. Aubrey was thrilled. We put him on this leaf, he sat there and Aubrey talked to him for the next hour or so. She would get close...he'd just look at her. She'd try and feed him a flower. He wouldn't move. "my friend!!" she kept saying.

We left and he was gone when we came back. A week later, everytime we go near these elephant ear leaves she asks about him. "Where is my friend lizard??" "Daddy, go find my friend lizard?"