Swimming!

We had fun again this weekend swimming in our pool.  Abby has decided she loves kick boards, and also the big adult slide!!!  We had to remove a crying baby from the pool because she just wanted to go down over and over and over.   Which means Mommy or Daddy has to go down over and over and over because she really shouldn't even be on it!  I didn't have our camera on us this day, but this is the slide (the large tan one in the background):

And here is her learning beginning surfing:

Abby and her cousin Sydney

Sunday...that's my fun-day... (Bangles anyone?)

Today we decided to get Abby out and have some fun.  We went to the Austin Children's Museum to see their new exhibit and Abby was in kid heaven.  The second we walked into the place, her entire face lit up with a huge smile and it was as if her brain couldn't think fast enough as to where she was going to start!

We played with ball ramps:



And ball drops:



And the slide:



And even played with food and made a "sandwich":

Even Daddy was having a little fun... :)

Then we went to the pool at our Club where our little girl has become FEARLESS.  We were there only a matter of 5 minutes when she decided she wanted to go up the stairs of the kid slide, and to come down the slide head first into the water!!!  She's fearless.  We did this over and over and over and over.  Then she moved on to laying in the water, jumping in the water and she even tripped over her feet and took a plunge all the way under...and it didn't even phase her.  She just stood up, spit out the water in her mouth, and kept on going.  She's my little fish.

Updated Memorial Day post...scroll down!

We be jammin'

I got Abby some kid-friendly headphones (read: unbreakable, but most important - volume controlled) for the iPad so she can listen to all her favorite apps during our flight to Indiana in August.  Since I'll be traveling with her all by myself from Austin to Detroit, I am hoping this gives me some relief!

And she loves them..!!

Summer Fun

Abby is loving our Country Club pool already!  I have a feeling we will be there a lot this summer.  She's gotten so brave and just jumps right in!!  I tried to get some videos of her funny little water flips, and how she gets on her hands and basically "walks" around with her body floating (it's hysterical).  But every time I got the camera out she didn't do her best moves.  Oh well - we have all summer. :)

Memorial Day Weekend

We had a really great Memorial Day weekend this year!  We left Austin on Saturday morning and drove to Ennis and the National Polka Festival. :)  Ate lunch with my family, napped, visited the cemetery to see Grandma, walked around the booths at Polka Fest, went swimming & grilled steaks for dinner!

On Sunday Abby got to see her cousin Sydney in Dallas.  She didn't mind her, but definitely minded when Daddy held her.  It was funny to see her jealous side!

Then Saturday afternoon we drove up to Lake Lewisville where Chris has his boat and spent the afternoon there eating lunch, feeding the fish, riding the boat.  We had been practicing all week having Abby wear a life jacket to get her ready for it, and she did so good!  We were all pleasantly surprised that she kept it on for that long!

Here are a few shots of the weekend, I will update more when I get them off my camera!

Feeding the HUGE fish.

Us with Great Grandpa Abram

Relaxing on the water with Daddy. 

Teri & Chris

Abby and her life jacket.

There was a band out at Dinghy's restaurant

and Abby loves to dance. 

Round Rock Express!

A couple weeks ago my company took us all to a Round Rock Express baseball game and rented out the pool area.  I didn't bring Abby's suit because I thought for sure she'd wouldn't want to swim...

And I was wrong.  She loves the water and I know better!  She started with a hand in the fountain, then a foot, then Daddy's holding her in...then we just gave in and let her go all the way and she had a blast!

Pecan Street Festival

Today was the annual Pecan Street Festival over Mother's Day weekend.  We loaded up Abby and headed downtown.  It was nice in the morning, but soon it got very hot and we were all sweating!  But it was still fun!

She got to see so many people, and dogs, and things for sale....that after about 10 minutes in the car heading home, she was out cold. :)  Big morning for a little girl!

(that is a cheez-it in her hand, she fell asleep while eating them!)

Easter

Easter weekend was fun this year!  To quickly re-cap....

-Grandpa Heign and Aunt Heather came down for the weekend.  We all went to the Twin Creeks Eggstravaganza and watched Abby find her "lone" egg.  It was a bit overwhelming for a 17-month old to go up against 3 and 4 year olds...but she held her own and got that egg.

-Our neighbors 17-year old daughter thought it was a great day to sunbathe in thong panties in her backyard which is clearly visible from OUR backyard...where we grilled out for lunch.

-Shelby got sick and threw up.  Twice.

-Heather set off the house alarm, which prompted the police to come, which got us another false alarm violation. :)

It was a great weekend!!

And here are pictures!

She loves sunglasses!

Windy??

Train ride...well, all 2 minutes of it 

before she got upset and we ended up getting off

Easter chocolate from Great Aunt Teri....ymmmmm