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Landry is still really into baking. We watch Martha Stewart, Cake Boss and a YouTube channel called Nerdy Nummies. She combines her baking interest with her imagination. The results are her making all sorts of cookies and cakes.

 

 

Chocolate cookies.

 

A cake in the making. I'm sure she "dirty iced" it before adding the fondant.

 

 

Baker Landry.

 

 

Imagination in action.

 

 

She's explaining what she's doing.

 

 

Time to put it in the oven.

We tend to eat a good bit of vegetables. Brad and Landry decided it would be so cool if we grew our own veggies. They set up a little green house(now I'm sorry I didn't get pics), planted some seeds and waited patiently. Once the seeds were big enough for a new home they made a garden.

 

 

The beginning...

 

 

Little plants.



Landry had a lot of fun doing this.

 

Our garden has grown quite a bit. It was planted April 28. The pictures below were taken May 18.

 

 

 

 

It will be nice to have home grown veggies!

 



Dallas Zoo 2013

Several weekends ago, Sunday, April 7, to be exact, we were on our way downtown to a park. It's the park mentioned in an earlier post. Landry wanted to take Brad. Well, we saw a billboard advertising the zoo's 125 Birthday Celebration. Park or zoo? It was an easy decision. There was an overcast and it was cool so we were off to the zoo!

 

 

Reagan was more interested in the water behind us.

Due to it being the zoo's birthday there were some specials going on which meant free cupcakes!

 

 

Landry and Brad filling time while I fed Reagan.

 

What a big, friendly turtle.

 

Reagan, Mommy and a stilt-walking clown.

 

 

Another family picture! I get excited when we're all in the picture.

 

Daddy's girls.

 

Giddy up elephant!

 

 

Reagan is waiting for the real elephants to come out.

There they are!

 

We saw giraffes next. The weather was such that all of the animals were out and about.



The weather was also perfect for a catnap.



Landry enjoyed the monkeys.

Reagan wasn't sure.

 

 

 

Reagan liked the real monkeys.

 

 

They're coming right to us!

I wonder what was going through this monkey's mind as he looked right at Reagan.

 

 

He reached out to Landry.



 

Reagan thoroughly enjoyed her first trip to the zoo.

Elephants in action:

 



 

 

Monkey on the move:

 

 



Reagan at 8 months!

 

Reagan at 8 months:

 

is scooting everywhere

is belly laughing a lot

takes 2 naps

eats baby food at lunch and dinner, sometimes breakfast

nurses 5 times a day

loves going for strolls on nice days

has taken an interest to Pearl

calls for mamamamama

finds her paci and puts it in her mouth

pulls up at every chance

really wants to walk

favors some foods more than others

kind of claps her hands

 

 

Cheese with my 2 teeth!

 

Hehehehe.

 

Ok, you've taken enough pictures right?

 

 

I'm standing all by myself!

 

 

Whoa! Standing up is wow.

 

Hey you :)

 

 



Easter 2013

 We had a low key Easter this year. The girls woke up around 6:30 to see what the Easter bunny brought, they hunted eggs, we got ready for church, went to church, came home and relaxed. Timing for our egg hunt couldn't have been any more perfect. While Landry and Reagan were inside opening their eggs it started raining. It rained until it was time to go to church then stopped. It turned into a beautiful day!  

 

 

Landry's Easter basket



The Easter bunny left a story telling Peter Rabbit and hippo bubble blower in Reagan's Easter basket.

Daddy helped Reagan find some eggs.

Landry thought Reagan was really eating candy.

The Easter bunny greeted us at church.

First attempt at a family picture. Reagan let us know she wanted her paci back.

Second attempt: much better.

 

We had to get a family pic with the Easter bunny. Reagan was very interested.

She wasn't scared at all.

 Before the girls got out of their dresses we took some pictures.

Cheese!

Sweet baby.

Hey Daddy trying to make me smile and look at the camera.

Our blessings.

Landry likes holding Reagan.

 

 

She really loves her little sister.

 

This year we started a new tradition: Resurection Eggs. I had never heard of them until a friend asked if we had ever done them. You can get them at christian stores. It's a carton of 12 eggs. Inside each egg is a small trinket/object that tells the Easter story. Once we started them Landry asked every night "Can we do an egg now"? Before we would do a new egg we talked about what the previous eggs meant. By the time we got to the last egg Landry knew the entire Easter story (and so do we).

 

Here is a video of Landry telling what each egg represents. Sorry it's sideways.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Z3Du_L0A4&feature=youtu.be