Addie is making a blob. She actually sat and did this for about 45 minutes. AMAZING, seeing as I cannot get her to do anything artsy for more than 10 minutes at the most. And she keeps asking when we can do it again.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Painting
Here are a few things that we have been doing to keep busy lately.
Puffy microwave paints. I found this online and new that I had to try it with the girls. To say that they loved it is an understatement. You make this paint and put it on cardboard and then put in the microwave and watch it puff up. Pretty cool. Macie is making a house.
Addie is making a blob. She actually sat and did this for about 45 minutes. AMAZING, seeing as I cannot get her to do anything artsy for more than 10 minutes at the most. And she keeps asking when we can do it again.
Addie's final picture after it had been in the microwave.
Macie's final picture.
Since starting school, Macie is really tired. We have found her asleep on the floor a few times. This night she was asleep on the sleeping bags with books all around her. Poor thing has so much she wants to try and do when she gets home, but can never find all of the time that she needs.
Here is Addie.....
Being goofy...
and thinking that she is being silly. Funny little girl. She on the other hand, could stay up all night.
Addie is making a blob. She actually sat and did this for about 45 minutes. AMAZING, seeing as I cannot get her to do anything artsy for more than 10 minutes at the most. And she keeps asking when we can do it again.
Addie starts school
The Park
Now that the weather is cooling down a little bit, we feel as though we can actually go out and explore without getting heat stroke. Last Saturday we went to an area park to check it out. It was a really fun park. The girls were in heaven. I feel like I haven't been taking a whole lot of pictures of them lately, so I took the camera to capture them in the fun. Here are a few of my favorites.
my man...observing the children and looking good if I do say so myself!!
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Sea World
Over Labor Day Weekend, we decided to take advantage of the nice weather and the places we live close to and headed down to Austin and San Antonio for the weekend. On Friday we got into Austin just in time to head downtown to the congress bridge where over 1 million Mexican bats fly out at the same time every night. It was pretty cool/gross/neat to see so many of them. It takes them over 1/2 hour to fly out from under the bridge and a lot of people go there every night just to see it happen.
Here is our picture of the bats. Awesome....I know.
On Saturday we headed down to San Antonio where we hit up Sea World. Geoff and I were pretty hesitant to go and do this with the girls being so young, but we are soooo glad that we did. It was definitely the highlight of the trip. We all had a blast and would probably do it again if we could. Here are a few pics of the adventure.
Macie on the Merry go Round.
Addie and Geoff on the Merry go Round.
Here are the Sea Lions. They were hilarious. It was so fun to watch them. Geoff and I found it so fascinating how well they train these animals.
Here they are waiting for the Sea Lion show to start. This was Macie's favorite show. This is all she would talk about. She thought that it was hilarious.
This is what Macie and Addie were doing almost the entire show. Quite funny. She just could not believe what she was seeing!!
And this Sea Lion was just Huge!! I am sure that it weighs a ton and it was actually quite ugly.
Here are the girls and Geoff on another ride. I was pretty positive that Addie would NOT like this ride and I was right. But, she did alot better than I thought she would, however she chose not to go on it again.
This is another show. It had the dolphins and the acrobats and some of these beautiful beluga whales. It was seriously so neat. Again, Geoff and I were left completely baffled at how they can do this type of thing with such animals.
Here are the girls during this show. They are in their swim suits because we had just gotten done with the swim park there and we were still wet.
And here are the dolphins.
On Sunday we headed to the Alamo and Riverwalk. It was interesting to see, but hard with 2 little girls that were completely exhausted from the day before. I mean, Macie was crying that she was tired after walking for only 5 minutes. So, we didn't last to long.
The Alamo.
The girls at a pond inside the Alamo. This was, naturally, their favorite part.
Here we are on the Riverwalk in San Antonio. They are on a bridge over the river.
The last thing that we did was take a boat ride through the riverwalk. It was very beautiful and interesting. After the boat ride, the girls were done, so we called it a day and headed home. It was a very fun trip and we had a great time.
On Saturday we headed down to San Antonio where we hit up Sea World. Geoff and I were pretty hesitant to go and do this with the girls being so young, but we are soooo glad that we did. It was definitely the highlight of the trip. We all had a blast and would probably do it again if we could. Here are a few pics of the adventure.
On Sunday we headed to the Alamo and Riverwalk. It was interesting to see, but hard with 2 little girls that were completely exhausted from the day before. I mean, Macie was crying that she was tired after walking for only 5 minutes. So, we didn't last to long.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Swimming Lessons
The girls have been doing a lot of swimming the past few months. They love it!! Macie especially has become quite the little swimmer. She does a really great job and can swim anywhere!! She is a fish! Addie is finally getting to the point of actually being brave enough to stick her face in the water! It is huge progress...trust me!
Just getting into the pool. Macie will not hold still for any picture. Once she is in the water, she doesn't stop for anything.
Addie showing me that she can hop on one foot.
Addie putting her head in the fountain!
Macie swimming.
The girls have also been in some swimming lessons. It has helped Addie become a little more brave and it has been fun for her to have some type of lesson that is just for her. Macie is so good that she doesn't want to go anymore "because they aren't teaching me anything new and I already know how to swim." Macie taking a breath before she starts.
Just getting done with a longggg length of the pool swim.
Addie learning how to use her arms while she swims.
Addie learning how to kick.
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