Little Gym - Bring a Friend

We invited our friend, Ava to come to Little Gym with us. This is Ava helping her mom, Marlo walk a straight line!
And here are our little angels listening so well to the music as it tells them where to put their bean bags! I was so proud of Lilly for actually listening for a couple minutes.

Lilly showed Ava one of her learned skills - the wheel barrow on the parallel bars.

And here Ava shows Lilly her natural skills. Also doing the wheelbarrow on parallel bars. No one likes a show off....
And as always, the class ends with bubbles. Lilly loves this part! She wanted to catch them on her feet.

Hair Woes

Some days Lilly wants to be in complete control of her hair. On those days, our daughter usually puts every barrette she can find in her hair and then completes the look with a head band. But recently, she insisted she wanted not one ponytail, but three ponytails! Three?! So I introduced her to pigtails. She was so excited about them - who knew?!
And this was on our way into Little Gym. I just loved the shadow...

Pumpkin Vase

So I have a new addiction. Pinterest.com. I'm on it all the time getting great ideas like this one! Lilly helped pick out the pumpkin and the Aster. She was not much help cleaning out the pumpkin, but she was a great help cleaning the seeds for roasting! Here is our finished vase!

Sta-cation - Day 2

We all know about the "fully stocked bar", but I have never heard of, much less seen, a fully stocked playground. This playground was across the road from our building. Stocked with playground balls, volleyballs, basketballs, horseshoes and a huge sandbox, not to mention the normal stuff - swings, slides, monkey bars.


Oh - did I mention we were right on Tablerock lake? We had a beautiful view and the lake was just a short walk away.

Where we pretended to know how to skip rocks to teach the kids how.


And then went to the docks where we tried out the paddle boats!
Yes, free paddle boats for the guests. And can I just say how proud I am of Ernie and I?! No, I did not want Lilly this close to the water. No, I did not want us to do a paddle boat. No, I did not think Lilly would sit still for the paddle boat. But we did it! And as much as I wanted her to just sit on the bench and enjoy the scenery, we paddle-boated. She enjoyed it and neither of us were too over-bearing. At least I don't think we were. Good job parental units!

Another perk: fishing poles! The kids loved this. And Megan actually caught one. Something with gills and beady eyes.

Sta-cation

I got a great groupon recently for a weekend stay at a resort in Branson. So we planned a staycation with my friend, Kelly, from Oklahoma. Lilly was so excited to go. She was in the car and ready to go for about 10 minutes waiting on Ernie. I finally talked her out of the car to try to go potty and wait on Daddy inside the house instead of the garage.

Our little sooners who hung out with us: Megan
and Matthew.

Intense yahtzee. Matthew really enjoys that game!
Root Beer floats! Great just before bedtime, right?!
Matching pajamas.
Creative play do. By the way - I made that play do!

And that is the high lights of our first few hours of staycation. Not included in this post, the trip to Walmart (I still don't like that store) for groceries and a bathing suit for Lilly and a visit to the pool for about 30 minutes before forcing these kiddos to eat a spaghetti dinner!