Cici's Pizza

We like doing fun things as a family, and Saturdays have been the best
day to do things. We can work around naps so everyone is happy, and
that makes it more enjoyable- for everyone! We have been to the Zoo a
few times already, and that has been really fun. Sometimes we go to
Cici's Pizza. Cici's is an all you can eat pizza buffet. Not the
worlds best pizza, but for the price and to see Luke having fun, it's
been great. And we try and go at times that it's not busy.

Sleepy

Over the past couple of days I have seen Cassie just lay down on the
floor. She will lay there for a few seconds and then get up, play and
then do it again. Maybe all this teething is making her extra tired!
The nice part is then I put het to nap and she goes right to sleep.
She heard me clicking pictures and got all cute on me!

And to think I encourage this...

This is what happens when I let them play alone! I guess I forgot to
attach the lock so it's compleatly my fault! No harm done but they
sure didn't like putting things away! It's all good, they were
distracted long enough that I got a load of wash in the washer!

Afternoon at the park!

This kid loves the slide at the park! We went to the park that is
near us and he had a great time!

Look at meeeee!

Cassie's now 10 months old! Can't believe it! She's getting better
at keeping her balance while standing, she will walk behind something
or walk if holding on to fingers, and cruises around holding on to
furniture or walls. She is still very chubby, we have had to start
getting bigger clothes, mostly because they creep up at the belly or
the cuff or band on a sleeve doesn't have elastic, but because it's
summer just about we needed more clothes anyhow, I just hope what I'm
slowly starting to get, she won't grow out of to soon! And I suppose
once she starts walking, it will be time for sandles- cute girly
ones! She doesn't leave headbands in her hair anymore, but there's
not much hair for clips. There is more in the back then the front or
on top, but not enough to even do pigtails.

Playtime!

I love it when they play nicely together! I also love it when
playtime brings lots of laughter from both of them!

I guess we are eating from pots this morning.

This morning Luke ran right for where the pots are kept, (really I
don't know how he knew it was left unlocked) and insisted on eating
breakfast from that pot. So I let him! He got fruit loops from the
pantry himself and helped me pour them. And after I got him his milk,
he poured that into the cereal. I ended up giving him a straw to drink
his milk from the pot because he ended up wanting more milk but I
wanted him to drink what he had. Actually now that I let this happen,
I hope he doesn't want to do it all the time.

Luke & the Komodo Dragon

Here's Luke telling the Komodo Dragon to be quiet. We're at the Museum
of Living Art at the Fort Worth Zoo.

Cassie walking!

With a little help of course! She had started walking along furniture
a little bit ago and walking with the highchair when it would start to
roll away. The problem..... Luke trying to ride off into the sunset
while Cassie is still holding on! Cassie still has not stood on her
own without holding on to something, but she's close, so close!

And if you are wondering, it ended ok, Cassie let go just as I went to pry her off! No accidents!

Funny Luke

Luke came into our room the other morning and found the diaper stack.
First he piled them on the bed and "counted" all of them. Then he
started to roll in them while doing this wired laugh! And he kept
rolling in them for a while! It was sooo funny! Lucky I Han my phone
right there to catch this in action!

Luke doesn't say Woof Woof anymore:(

It's actually kind of sad. He use to call Ender woof woof- that was
Enders name when Luke used it, and we thought it was adorable! I'm
glad we have some video clips! Now Luke says his version of Ender,
which is also cute!

Our evening out

We decided to be brave and take the kids out to eat tonight. We have
never done that! We started small and just went to Cici's. The kids
did really well. We went about 4 pm trying to beat the dinner crowd
and ate in the corner by the window. Luke liked the elephant statue
out side so we let him play on it before we left. Here he is doing his
"elephant sound like this" noise compleat with actions! We are going
to try and take the kids out in public more often, so they can learn
how we want them to act while we are out! Cassie did pretty well to,
we just kept her in her carseat and she ate her puffs and played with
a few toys! Good idea Michael! It was a fun family outing, and since
the kids were good, it makes us more excited to do it again!

Oh what a mess we made this day!

Enough time has passed that I can blog about this now! Luke made this
mess all by himself! I was upstairs putting Cassie down for a nap, I
wad gone 10 minutes maybe- 15 at the most, and this is what I saw! A
2 lb canister of oatmeal all over the floor, and in the shelves, and
in his hair, clothes, and diaper! The oatmeal wad even in Ender, but
I didn't discover that til about 30 minutes after this all happened
and Ender did a full body shake and oatmeal went flying everywhere!
There is also a whole bag of mini rice cakes that he opened (had to go
for the unopened bag of course!) and dumped out all over the place!
The time out chair got lots of use. And the day before this happened,
both kids were playing in the sand and pebbles that were in the fire
place and their clothes and little hands were all grubby!

Luke is also now standing, climbing, and scooting things (boxes,
chairs, bins, etc...) to reach things he shouldn't! I knew this day
was coming, really I was surprised it took as long as it did!

Drinking from a straw!

For the first time! We taught Luke how to drink from a straw at about
9 months, so I thought why not teach Cassie to do the same thing!
Sure enough she did it! Cassie will be 9 months on Wednesday.

Boing! Boing!

Luke did this too! And come to think of it, so did Ender!

Play time

So.... I encouraging our children to play by themselves or alone in
the other room. Don't get me wrong, I do play with them, but I think
they also need to know how to entertain themselves for the times I
can't be in the same room as them. Well, today I was in the living
room feeding Cassie and Luke was playing in the playroom and kitchen.
I noticed after I was done with Cassie that it wad strangely quiet....
I walk into the kitchen to find that Luke had disassembled the
dishwasher and was playing with the bottom rack! But he wad also
trying to be helpful by loading his own straw cups! He was having so
much fun!

Snow in TX!

It snowed all day today! Michael was able to make it home from
Chicago before they cancelled flights, so when the kids got up from
naps daddy was home! We went over to Michael's parents this afternoon
to play in all of their nice snow. Our backyard hadn't been cleaned
since we moved in so we didn't want to chance stepping in all of
Enders messes! We could tell that Luke was cold but didn't want to
come in! I've got pictures with the real camera I can post later. We
even bundled Cassie up, it was hilarious because she was so bundled up
that she couldn't sit and she just kept falling backward and rolling
over!

Look who's standing!

Cassie has learned how to pull herself up now, since Friday or
Saturday. She now also had two teeth and weighs 20 lbs. I can't
believe she's 8 months already!

Cassie gets her Wii Fit on!

But this makes it hard to do my Wii Fit!

She's so close!

One of these days I'll find her holding on to something and standing!