Where's Lillian?

Lillian is a big girl now having moved into a toddler bed.

She is also our little climber.

Sorry, you'll have to cock your head to the side for this one...

One night I couldn't find her.  I looked everywhere, on her bed, on the floor, under the bed, in the closet.  I could hear her snoring so I knew she was somewhere in the room.  I grabbed a flashlight and looked under the bed again.  I was sitting on the floor trying to figure out where the soft breathing was coming from when I looked up...

Freedom of toddler bed + Climbing = No good.

Imagination

Did you know the zoo has dolphins?

And sea turtles, giraffes, elephants, ducks, dogs, cats, monkeys, fish... I think you get the picture.

Did you also know Samuel can drive us to the zoo?

Because he did. He "drove" us to the "zoo" and we walked around the house -er, I mean zoo and saw all kinds of animals including monsters.

You have no idea how much I loved using my imagination again... and seeing my two beautiful children exploring their world with imagination.

March Happenings

and a little bit of April too.

I figured since I hadn't posted in a while I would just add a plethora of pictures for ya. So here goes:
The kids insisted on wearing Daddy's green shirts.

Oh, so that is what the little loopy thing on Daddy's pants are for! Who knew?

Cuddled and comfy on the couch.

We took a trip to see Carlin's brother Ben in Tulsa and of course had to stop at the aquarium.
While the kids tried to pet the sting-rays all I could think was "Wasn't that how the crocodile hunter died!"

We couldn't get Samuel to smile and then suddenly he did some crazy pose and we captured it on camera.

Ben took us on a tour of the University of Tulsa (he is currently working on his PhD, yep, I married into a family of smarties). It was gorgeous (the campus that is). Made me want to go back to school... longing sigh.

We ate at Arby's. We originally found Samuel here, but Lillian was the only one who would pose for a picture. She's such a ham.

On our way home we drove into a huge storm. The kids and KeLei slept through it all.

We finished this puzzle almost a year after starting it only to find a piece was missing! Grrrr.

Samuel and his cars...

And now for today. I told the kids they could go outside and play in the puddles (it had finally stopped lightning and they were pretty excited). Guess I should have taken into consideration how muddy those puddles were.