Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Meeting Nonna

We traveled to Mansfield/Arlington the weekend of May 15-19th.  Kyle's grandmother was coming in town from Tomball and was anxious to meet Ellis for the first time.  The kids and I came in on Thursday the 15th and Kyle came Friday-Sunday and brought his own car filled with stuff to put in storage before the move.


Looking adoringly at brother one morning!


She probably won't always look at him so adoringly, because of things like this:



After I got the kids dressed, Lane proudly showed me that he handcuffed Ellis.  What a sleepy convict he caught!  A little milk bandit!



Lane was excited to have Evin spend the night at Mums' that Thursday night since Kori had to work the next day and Mom was keeping Evin.  Kori asked me to send her a picture text of Evin and I got this cheesy smile of her wearing some of Lane's hand me down jammies that we keep at Mums' house!




On Friday, we headed to Pops and Gran's house to see Nonna.  I love getting to spend time with her!  She always cooks delicious treats and meals and has such interesting stories about her past.  I sure wish Ellis and Lane could have met their other great grandmothers, Mammaw, Granny, and Ginks!



Lane always takes a while to warm up to Nonna, but once he does, he is talkative and silly for her!



The weather was so nice for mid-May in Texas, so we all went out to the deck and watched Lane play that evening. He loved playing with Gran's dog, Sawyer!


Isn't Sawyer cute?!  She's full of personality!









Getting some snuggles in with her Daddy.
 


And sharing some with Mommy, too!


Oh, Lane!


That's better!


Ellis and Mums.  I love this one!


And a cute pic with the babies and their other grandma!


Our little crabby pants looking pretty cute!



I love sleepy babies!


Back at Kyle's parents' house the next day.  Lane loved boxing on Trent's punching bag!




Ellis enjoying being out in the warm sun!


Goodbye hugs for Nonna


Little muscles sleeping on Aunt Kori's legs!


Lane went to Kroger with Mums and begged to ride in the race car cart.  She snapped this picture of him--asleep at the wheel!
 


Sleepy smiles at midnight.  I remember her being so happy that night after her last feeding.


I took this picture of Lane's eye while he was about to take his nap.  Why can't we all have such beautiful eyelashes??


Tummy time stinks!!


 


Lane decided she probably just needed some attention from him!

 



Our little trickster knows that when tummy time is tiring, just roll over!!


Much happier on her back!


Lane loves playing games, and has found a new love for the game Old Maid.  It is absolutely hilarious to play with him because with him, you ALWAYS know if he has the old maid or if he gets rid of it.  He either has a huge smile on his face or a pouty face, depending on where the Old Maid is!!  Mom got him this handy card holder at Wal-Mart that works so well for him.  Now if we could just get him to keep a straight face when the Old Maid is around...



We were all color coordinated the day we left, so I had Mom take some pictures of us in the backyard.  Ellis was the more willing participant, so she got to be in more photos! 







My loves!






Week in Pictures {May 12 - May 16, 2014}

Just some quick iphone pictures from this week that I didn't want to leave out!


Ellis has some major blowouts!  Way more than Lane ever did.  I moved up a size in diapers each time they got bad and that seems to help a little bit!  The poop goes up the front, side, back...wherever it can get out!  Good thing this little girl has an endless supply of outfits to change into!




Loves to suck her fingers.  She isn't skilled enough to get the same one in each time, but will take whatever she can get.  Sometimes it's the first two, sometimes the middle two, and every now and then she can get her thumb in.  She sucks on them so loudly and drools everywhere!  I always try to replace those sticky fingers for a pacifier.


We made a trip to the Austin Library this week.  Lane loves visiting the library and picking out books.  His idea of choosing books is to just pull random ones off the shelf and check them out no matter what the book is about.  I try to guide him to age appropriate books I think he will enjoy, but sometimes his way wins out!


Ellis was snug as a bug in the Ergo carrier, which I have been loving so far!  She loves being snuggled in there and it's nice for me to be hands-free!

It was a good day for navy stripes!  


Sweet siblings!
 


Lane continued to nap almost every day at school after Ellis was born.  Being a big brother is exhausting!