Rylee turns 5!!!!

This past Thursday the kids had their Easter party at school. They hunted candy filled eggs and saw the Easter Bunny.  I was shocked to hear that Rylee sat on the Easter Bunny's lap! She has always been very fearful of any life size characters especially Santa! Later that day she asked us if the Easter Bunny is a real bunny or like in a bunny costume. Adam said, "well, like in a bunny costume". Then she said "I guess the one at school today was not real because I saw his socks". I think that is hilarious for some reason. Parker also got to sit on the Easter Bunny's lap but acccording to the picture I saw was not a happy camper.

Rylee's 5th birthday fell on Good Friday this year which is odd because usually it falls a few weeks after Easter.  We let her open her gifts from us the night before since we had such a busy weekend planed.  She got a pink lego set, charm necklace, Rapunzel pj's, costume, shoes and wig (which she wanted to wear to her Rapunzel theamed party the next day) and a set of small golf clubs. Adam is going to teach her how to play golf!   Adam was able to take off a half day on Friday and we went over to Nonny and Pop Pop's (aka John and Lisa) house to swim.  Rylee and Parker both got Easter baskets from them filled with swim suits and pool toys.  Parker got a floaty suit that is perfect for helping him learn how to swim. It has arm floaties and a chest float so it holds him up in such a way that we can even let go of him while he is in the water.  It was a perfect day and the kids had a blast!  Rylee got a baseball bat, glove, ball and tee ball set from her Unc (aka Andrew).  It is all pink and purple of course ;)  I really want her to play tee-ball this Fall so hopefully we can get her practicing and excited about it this summer.   

 

Reid playin it cool at the princess party!

The next day was the Rapunzel party.  Our friends The Rentfro's came up to stay the night a day early so we were lucky to have their help setting up.  About 20 kids showed up as well as a surprise guest.  There was a knock at the door and when we opened it, there was Rapunzel!  She came in singing and Rylee immediately yelled "RAPUNZEL"!  She even gave her a big hug.  Our little girl is really coming out of her shell ;)  Later that day Rylee said "why wasn't her hair glowing like in the movie"?  Adam was like "uhhh well because it was light outside".  ????    She seemed satisfied with that answer so we left it at that.  Anyway the party was a hit.  Rapunzel had all the kids playing games, dancing, she put make up on the girls and tatoos on the boys, read a book, crowned Rylee as Princess for the day and even helped us sing happy birthday when it was time for cake.  I could not have been happier about the job Rapunzel did.  All the kids were in awe and so into everything she did or said.  Rylee got a ton of great gifts (super cute clothes, Wii games, Rapunzel toys, a pink IPOD and all sorts of other fun stuff. She loved everything she got and I was so proud of her for saying thank you and hugging everyone after she opened their gift.  We are so grateful to everyone who came to her party.  I would say the party was a sucess!

 







Update on some things Parker is doing.  His new thing is climbing up in his chair and buckling the straps all by himself.  It makes me so nervous that he will fall backwards but he refuses to let me do it now.  Such a big boy.  He is talking SO good.  He asks for milk, water, says up and down, says hug, dog, horse, duck, basically tries to repeat almost every word we say.  I forgot how fast they start talking at this age.  His skin is also getting better now that we have a perscription lotion and steroid.  The school year is almost over at MDS so we are going to send Parker to a different school 2 days a week for the summer.  I didn't do this when Rylee was his age but I think he NEEDS it.  Mommy needs it ;)  He really enjoys going to school and is so so so active I really think it is the right thing to do.  PLUS it will give me a chance to do some big kid stuff with Rylee this summer. 



Granna & Pop Pop

 

 

 

 

Mud Bugs and More

Parker has been so busy lately. Climbing climbing climbing on anything he can. As a matter of fact I had to remove the bumper out of his crib because I walked in to find him straddling the top rail of his crib and was 20 seconds from being on the ground. Crazy kid! I am not ready to put him in a toddler bed yet so hopefully he will chill out with the gymnastic moves. He has been repeating words and identifying body parts, animals and making animal sounds. My favorite is the elephant. He makes the noise and does the arm motion at the same time. It is so cute! We had to take him to the doctor this week because his eczema has been SO bad. It is all over his body and flares up bright red. The doctor said it is most likely so bad right now because of allergy season. She put him on Zyrtec twice a day and prescribed us a daily cream and a steroid as needed. I feel so bad for him. It HAS to be uncomfortable :( Apparently allergies, athsma and eczema are all connected and if one of us had any of those as a child then our kids have a high chance of having it. Since I had athsma AND allergies it makes sense. Luckily Rylee must have gotten Adam's genes in that department!

We had a crawfish boil at our house last weekend. My Mom and Wade usually have one every Spring but they convienced us to have it this year. To "pass the torch" so to speak! I am glad we did it because it was so much fun and I ALWAYS enjoy eating crawfish when Wade makes it! It was mostly family but we can't have a party with out our best buds the Rentfro's and The Knotts :) The kids had an absolute blast. Parker played on the side of the house with the sprinkler for about an hour. It was the funniest thing. I am so happy that we have such a nice backyard now. The playset helps too!!! Good times.

Looking forward to the rest of April. We have friends from Austin coming to visit Friday night and are taking them to the Montgomery County cook-off. Then Rylee's FIFTH Birthday, her party and Easter all in the same weekend! Busy month but all good stuff! :)

Comfort and Seaworld

A few weeks ago we went to Comfort to go visit my Dad and Sherry aka Poppy and Nanny. We love love love going to Comfort! It is so beautiful and peaceful. Well, as peaceful as somewhere can be with an almost 5 year old and almost 2 year old. ;) The big excitement this trip was getting to see Tucker. Nanny and Poppy have had Tucker off and on since Parker has been born but since Christmas, Comfort is his new home. I think everyone including Tucker is happy with this arrangement OTHER than Rylee. She cried when I told her he couldn't come home with us :( Parker did really good this trip. He loved exploring outside AND inside. We were able to time this trip with when the Rentfro's and Knott's were going to San Antonio for a trip to Seaworld. Comfort is only 40 minutes from San Antonio so we drove up to meet them Friday so all the kids could go to Seaworld together. I was impressed at how well it went. The weather was great, the park was not crowded and the kids all behaved. Parker wasn't really feeling well that weekend however he seemed to really enjoy the shows.

Ok so it looks like I am having some technical difficulties (GO FIGURE), so I will have to do a separate blog for the crawfish boil we just had. I swear I hate computers. It seems to be nothing but problems. I can't log onto my hotmail account from home so I had to create a new email. Additionally I can only view half of the pictures on facebook, (I know I know, who cares about facebook) and NOW I can't download pics onto blogspot the way I used to and they all go at the top of the page no matter how I try to position them. ARGGGGGG. So frustrating. This is a fairly new computer and I don't exactly download new things often so I am not sure what the problem is. ANYWAY see next post for continuation or our April so far.