Texas Bred: July 2008

Thursday, July 31, 2008

brave girl!

My nieces have been here visiting this week and one is just about 9 months older than Ellie. She was so brave in the pool today!!!

Friday, July 25, 2008

I finally bought a few things to organize our office. I love how it turned out, especially with the pictures on the wall. I have been reluctant to put pictures on the walls because I didn't want lots of holes in the walls, but the office was the perfect place to put them. I actually want to add more pictures to the wall on the left and we need to work on a few more things, but I'm very pleased with how the office looks now.

This was the office before. Embarrassing, I know. It was one of our catch-all rooms, but hopefully not anymore!

Dancin' Machine

Ava has learned to dance! She does this EVERY time she hears music! It's so funny!

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Blessings

As you may know, I often pray that my girls will be a blessing to other people. We had the best time tonight - we went out to dinner with some good friends of ours who live in our neighborhood. They actually have 5 kids, but 3 of them were away visiting family. Our kids spend a ton of time together and have so much fun. Anyway, as we were eating, I saw this elderly lady who kept watching Ava and waving at her and she just seemed like the happiest lady. I wasn't surprised she was watching Ava, though, since she's such a ham and she looks for people who are looking at her so she can put on a show. Long story short, the lady came up as she was leaving and said, "All of my children live 10 hours away, I have grandchildren and even a couple of great-grandchildren, and my baby is 44. I love kids and I always pray that I will be blessed by children and your kids were my angels today." She told our kids thank you for smiling at her, told them how beautiful they were....she just went on and on and was the sweetest lady. As she walked away, she said, "God bless you!" I just melted. I cried right there at the table in the middle of Texas Roadhouse. Our kids were a blessing to her, but what a blessing it was for me to hear that from her!!

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Like a Pro

Ava is now walking (almost) like a pro! She still tumbles sometimes, as you'll see in the video, but she will just take off and walk across the room, even turning to go the other way sometimes. She LOVES Ellie and tries to call her "Sissy", but it comes out like "Diddy", which is also how she says "kitty", but she sure does try. Ellie is great at reminding Ava to use her signs that she knows and trying to get her to say words. Dog is probably her favorite word to say and she just leaves the "g" sound off the end. Right now, Ellie is obsessed with who is the monkey in the middle and who is first, second, last...