Butler Park

We love visiting Butler Park!  On one end is a par 3 pitch and putt golf course that Kyle has played numerous times.  I played with him once while Claire watched Lane, and we have taken Lane a couple of times to play with us.  Lane does pretty well, but sometimes complains of the heat and the walking.  Sometimes I complain too!  Haha!

We take his little clubs and he plays right along with us!  He is getting to be a good little golfer! 

7/1/13

Check out that swing!  Eyes on the ball and everything!

 

Watching his ball.  He always says "I smoked it!"

He makes the cutest golfer ever.  I really hope he sticks with the sport and becomes a real golfer someday!

A little putting help from Daddy

Taking a rest with Mommy

On the other end of Butler Park is the Liz Carpenter Fountain.  It is a splash pad at the top of a hill with a great view of downtown.  It's nice to let Lane cool off after a sweaty game of golf!

 

 

  

There is also a lookout point atop another hill that has a giant map of Texas on the ground.  We dried Lane off and walked up there to check it out.  He loved sitting on Mansfield!

 

And then moved down to Austin!

 

Pointing to Daddy's building--It's the second tallest from the left.

 

Our last month in DFW...

We have really enjoyed living at Mums' house for the past month.  I mean...she has been doing our laundry, cooking meals, helps out with my mommy duties, and her backyard looks like this:

Scout LOVES living here!

I will miss her company and her hospitality when we move, that's for sure!

Lane had a rough time adjusting at the beginning.  He kept saying he wanted to go to "his house" at bedtime and wanted his own bed.  (He's been sleeping upstairs with us on a twin mattress on the floor.) We took him by the old house the day we closed, after it was completely empty and clean.  He ran to all the rooms asking "did the moving truck take all the stuff from THIS room?"

After about a week he was settled in and has had a blast swimming with mommy each night.  He has gotten to be a pretty good little swimmer for a 2 year old!  He can jump off the steps and swim about 2 feet underwater to me.  He has also enjoyed playing with some old puzzles that I dug out of our toy closet.  Did anyone else have "Lauri puzzles" growing up?  My mom bought me lots of different ones when I was Lane's age because I enjoyed playing with them at my preschool.  She saved them for all these years, and now Lane is enjoying them!

ENJOYING AN EVENING SWIM WITH MOMMY

We packed the last few weeks before our move full of activities and fun outings.  We went to San Angelo and Brady to visit the Snowden's and Paw, did a couple of crafts, rode the mini train in Fort Worth, visited the Fort Worth food trucks, had Lane's first popcorn/movie night, went to the Fort Worth Children's Museum and the Dallas World Aquarium, had fun at the splash pad, made a couple of trips to the library, and had lots of lunches and dinners out!

PAINTING THE OLYMPIC RINGS

FW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM

SPLASH PAD

COOLING OFF WITH THE SNOWDENS

DALLAS WORLD AQUARIUM

*scared of this alligator!

DINNER WITH KORI AND MITCH

RIDING THE MINI TRAIN IN FW

 FW FOOD PARK-LANE LOVED IT!

HELPING MUMS WATER THE FLOWERS

 FIRST MOVIE NIGHT- CHOSE THE BERENSTAIN BEARS?!!?

READING WITH PAW IN BRADY

DATE NIGHT -WITH AN UNHAPPY LANE!

HE DIDN'T WANT US TO LEAVE!

A VISIT FROM NONNA

FIRST TRIP TO THE LIBRARY

We have had such a great summer.  I hope we enjoy Austin as much as we do DFW!