Butler Park

Last thursday our girls lunch and kids play group got together and took the kids to Butler Park for a picnic and to play in the water fountains there. Lena had so much fun playing in the water and splashing with her friends. She was constantly pouring buckets of water on her head and running around in the fountains. It was hard to choose from the mass of pictures I took, so there are several posts of pictures here. We will definitely come back to the fountains during the summer.

Playing with her friends, (L to R) Maizie, Mia, and Luc.















Playing with Maizie.






















Playing with Mia.
















Playing with Cooper, who is in her class at school.

Waiting.....hoping for a drink.

Water in the nose.

Lena's first hair cut

Lena got her first hair cut today. We still have the length and curls, but got a small trim and bangs. Lena doesn't like having her hair in her face, so the bangs will help with that. We did save the hair that was cut off for her bangs.

Lena in the Bluebonnets

Here?

I am physically here, sometimes mentally, I just don't have anything to post about. Maybe it will warm up for more than one day and I can take Lena outside for some pictures.

Family

This is picture of my whole family, including my Mom and Dad, brothers, sister, their spouses, and all my nieces and nephews. This was taken at Thanksgiving 2008.

Lena quotes

Since Lena has turned 3, she has had some quotes and conversations that make us laugh, or at least put a smile on our faces.

Last week:

April: I have to clean up this room (living room where all her toys are spread out).
Lena: No you don't. That's not a good idea.
April: Yes, I do need to clean because we have people coming to our house for Christmas next week.
Lena: (looks around) Yes you do need to clean. That is a good idea.

Sunday morning:
Lena: I have to get dressed so I can go to church and share Jesus and God!

Sunday afternoon:
James: (puts on his toboggan) Do you like my hat?
Lena: No. It's broken. Here, let me use my tools and fisk (fix) it.
James: What are you going to fix it with?
Lena: A hammer. (James hands her the hat, she uses a pretend hammer on hat)
Lena: There, good as new.
James: Thank you for fixing my hat.
Lena: Wait, I forgot to use my screwdriver. Let me see it. (Uses pretend screwdriver)
Lena: There, now good as new.

Sunday night:
James: What do you want for Christmas?
Lena: Penguins and a clean house.
*a few nights before, Lena asked Mommy what she wanted for Christmas. Mommy said she wanted a clean house.

Sunday night:
*in the car
Lena: Do you want to ride on my camel?
April: That sounds like fun.
James: Do you have a camel?
Lena: Yes, I do. He's over there in the grass at the zoo.
April: Okay, well how about we ride him in the daytime so we can have light to see.
*I knew kids could have an imaginary friend at this age, I just never thought it would be a camel. Of course, mine was a miniature mouse that lived in my left ear and whispered secrets to me.

Lena turns 3!

Okay, so her birthday was actually on Dec. 8, but I'm just now getting around to posting about it. James' parents (aka Granna and Papa) came to town and celebrated with us. We took her to Texas Land and Cattle for dinner. (She loves steak) and she had a bowl of ice cream for desert. Sadly, I didn't bring a candle for her to blow out, so no pictures of that. Since Granna and Papa's hotel was down south (they were also in town for training for work), we went down south to eat and then to their hotel to open presents.

Lena loved her card that Papa and Granna gave her. It was a musical one, her favorite kind. She danced and danced to the music. Here she is showing off her birthday presents; a bracelet, Veggie Tales Lord of the Beans, and her first ever bank card with money to spend.

O Christmas Tree...

A couple of weeks ago, Lena and I put up our tree and decorated it. Of course we've added some more ornaments since these pictures. The third picture shows Lena's part of the tree that she decorated. Every once in awhile, she goes over to the tree and rearranges some of the ornaments. She really loved decorating the tree, and is really getting into Christmas this year. This morning, she heard a noise and said, "Who's on the roof? Maybe it's Santa Claus." Cute girl!

Blog lag

I have gotten behind on posting pictures. My computer decided not to work, so I couldn't download pictures from my camera for a while. I have just about caught up with a few posts. Sadly, I haven't posted pictures since Halloween. I will post soon about tree decorating and Lena's birthday.

Lena makes a pumpkin pie

At Thanksgiving, Lena helped me make a pumpkin pie. Here are all the pictures from that fun event (in two posts). The really fun part came when my Dad was eating the pie, and told me he won the prize because he found a penny in his piece of pie. I had wondered where Lena had dropped her penny.