Showing posts with label Molly and Ray. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Molly and Ray. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Off to the Hundred Acre Wood


We spent the beginning of a beautiful weekend with Molly and Ray. We weren't too sure how the weather was going to hold up but it ended up being a gorgeous day! I got a nap in while it rained and Auggie kept pushing through his tiredness. He eventually fell asleep in the middle of a peek-a-boo session with Molly. Tim always enjoys being outside and away from any city-like location.

While Auggie napped, Tim and I walked around the property with the dogs. I wanted to get some pretty pictures and Tim wanted pictures of some little toads in one section of the property.
You can click on the photo below and have a slideshow of all the photos. You'll get the full photo since they will be larger than they appear on the blog.





White Phlox in a group of purple phlox


Grasshopper on the edge of Red Blanket Flower

Prickly Pear bloom

Old Plainsmen

Toadlet

Blanket Flower Moths with bees

Blanket Flower Moths

Yucca

Carpenter Bee and other insect

Arkansas Lazy Daisy

Burn Nettle

Chrysalis 




Yucca in bloom

Molly and Ray's dam blew... It's still pretty!

Auggie taking a nap



Tim and Auggie

Checking out the bluebird box

Kisses fromMolly

Callaway


Auggie had fun leaning against the screen

Hi Mommy!

Aussie wasn't too sure what I was up to

He kept signing "water" and pointing to the pond

I am very pleased with how a couple of those pictures turned out. I especially like the one with the grasshopper and the one of the butterfly in the very top photo. Maybe I’ll have something to add to the Milam County Nature Festival next year.

Tim watched Auggie Saturday while I helped my friend, Heather, photograph a wedding in Waller. I am so glad I was able to do that. It was fun and so nice seeing Heather. I miss hanging out with her! Auggie got to hang out with Zane and Jen Saturday evening while Tim and Dan watched a rugby game in The Woodlands. I received a text message from Jen that evening with a picture of Auggie eating at her dinner table. I was so confused! I had no idea Tim had dropped him off. Auggie enjoyed being there. He and Zane are really good about playing with each other (or leaning on each other like they have in the past;). It is so nice to have a few friends around with kiddos Auggie’s age.
Auggie and Zane trying to open the gate to see horses
photo by Jen
Auggie is feeling much better this week. His attitude has completely changed towards diaper changes- thank goodness! He’s continuing to babble quite a bit. I love when he says “butterfly.” He moves his hands around like they’re fluttering and then he says “butterfly” and attempts to find one in the area. We have one in our living room so he can usually find that one.

Tim introduced Auggie into fig newtons last week. YUM! Instead of paying almost $3 for the Nabisco brand, we found some off brand ones that are just as good and are only $1! Sounds a lot better. They’re 100 calories per 2 cookies so if he continues to eat them like he is now, he’ll be adding a bit of weight! We’re really hoping we can encourage him to eat more so we get him off of formula.

Auggie has started to like brushing his teeth after his nighttime bath. He gets all cuddled into his froggy towel and then reaches for a tooth brush. He usually likes it when either Tim or I brush our teeth, too. I’m hoping that habit sticks! He doesn’t need to have terrible teeth!


I should have a post on Thursday... I need to finish quite a few projects for clients and then catch up on some chores around the house... so we'll see! 

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Almost to 30 signs!


Signs (as of February 7)

  1. Milk
  2. All Done
  3. More
  4. Dog
  5. Bird
  6. Rabbit
  7. Outside (hold out your hand and act like you're twisting a door knob)
  8. Airplane
  9. Train
  10. Cat
  11. Ball
  12. Baby
  13. Eat
  14. Cracker
  15. Cookie
  16. Bye-Bye
  17. Monkey
  18. Duck
  19. Horse
  20. Car
  21. Shoes
  22. Fish
  23. Book
  24. Zebra
  25. Banana
  26. Moon
I'm going to add a little sidebar option on the left side to keep an updated list of all the signs Auggie knows. I'm working on "help," "please," and "turtle" with him now. I might be missing one or two right now but I'll keep adding them as I remember.

We had a busy busy busy weekend (and Monday!). 

Friday was a scary day. Auggie and I went to Michael's to buy some paper and got home just in the nick of time before it started raining. I had checked the radar before we left and the storm didn't look too bad but it ended up basically just sitting on top of South College Station. We got about 4" of rain! Tim thought the same thing- it wasn't going to be too bad- but he sat in his office until close to 7 pm. Between the quarter mile walk to his truck and not being able to run yet, he didn't want to get soaked. He left while it rained anyway. I was glad he was home because we were under a tornado watch until 8:15. There was an F2 tornado that touched down in Snook (the link goes to an image showing Snook's location). Luckily no one was hurt. I didn't even know about the tornado watch until Darren texted me asking if we should be in an interior room! (Note to self: don't watch the CW while there is bad weather in the area; they won't let you know!) We had a bit of hail in our area, but nothing too bad. Auggie didn't show any signs of being scared during the lightning or thunder so that was good. Our local KBTX channel really stayed on top of keeping everyone up-to-date and shared viewers pictures and video of the storm. I was impressed since I had only seen a news station do that in Houston during hurricanes. It sure was nice getting the rain though! I think from January 1 until now, we have about 9.5" on record at the airport a few miles down the road. That's about half of our yearly total from 2011! I hope it continues!

Saturday afternoon, Mom, Lindsay, Cole and Drake came up. We stuck around the house to let the boys play. Auggie was in his PJs all day!

Sunday was pretty much our busy busy day. We had lunch with Tim's coworker, Burnie, and his wife, Leslie. They're expecting their first baby in the next week or so. We had lasagna and salad. Yum! Auggie did great until it was way past his naptime- around 3! He slept for about an hour in his carseat while we drove back home, picked up his food and then continued on to Hearne to see Billy and Julie to watch the Super Bowl. We spent the rest of the day in Hearne watching the Super Bowl and the commercials. Auggie ran around and chased Remi, their little Yorkie. 

We drove out to Gause Monday morning and spent the whole day with Molly and Ray. We had a great time- Auggie ate some dirt, busted open his gum, played with some new dogs and went for a ride on a tractor. We always enjoy going out to see Molly and Ray. I have tons of pictures so I'll leave you to look at them...

Daddy helping Auggie go up the plank to the slide

A little out of focus, but he has SO much
fun going head first!

He found the wheel

Big smiles for the wheel

Daddy showing him how to go down the slide properly

Ray was bringing the tractor around and Auggie couldn't take his eyes off it

waiting to go on a tractor ride

Daddy let him eat some sand

♥ that face!

Learning how to honk the horn

but the horn should be there!

big boy!

trying to get in the front loader

Kisses from Aussie

We have such City Dogs! Charley wanted to ride
with us instead of running around

Aussie wanted on, too, but while we were moving!
Auggie wanted to be just like Callaway!