Packing

Lena has really wanted to play with her cousin Olivia the past couple of days. She has also been wanting to go to Grandma's house. Today she asked me where Olivia was, and I told her that Olivia was at Grandma's house. She decided a little later on that she wanted to go to Grandma's house to play with Olivia, so she took her suitcase and packed it. She put her pillow, care bear and pajamas in her suitcase and announced she was all packed and ready to go to Grandma's. I told her that was great, but we weren't going to see Grandma for 3 more days. That girl makes me laugh.

side note: Lena just went into her room and got herself all dressed for the day, complete with shoes. She said she put her pink sandals on because Grandma likes the color pink. Her whole outfit all matched!

Bubble Face

Just about every time Lena takes a bath, she sticks her face into the bubbles to make faces. This time, she stuck her face into the bubbles and said, "Look, I'm Jesus."

Picnic in the park

Today around lunch time, Lena came to me and said, "Let's have a picnic", so we made a picnic lunch of PB&J sandwiches and baby carrots (Lena requested the carrots) and grabbed a sprite and dr. pepper, and headed to the park. We ate our food, and then Lena went off to play at the playground. After a short play time, it was really hot, so Lena sat in the shade in the rocks with another little girl. The little girl kept throwing rocks, and Lena tried it too (to which I reminded her that we don't throw rocks). The little girl kept throwing rocks over and over, and I was really proud of Lena because she didn't follow and did not throw rocks. They were having a conversation with each other, but I only heard what Lena said. Here is what some of the things I heard Lena say:

"Hey, don't throw rocks."
"Hey, you hit me." (She didn't do anything back to the little girl)
"Mommy, she keeps throwing rocks."
"Why do you throw rocks?"

I was really proud of Lena for taking a stand on what's right and showing the little girl how to behave.

Cute

Here is Lena and Daddy snuggling while watching Wall-E last Saturday afternoon. The second picture is Lena and Lady the dog, who belongs to my Mom (Grandma).

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.