Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Easter Bunny Bounty


Luke's feet are getting too big for the shoes to fit in the basket


Easter weekend we enjoyed a visit from Luke's Nana and Grandpa and from the Easter bunny. Louis missed out on the fun because he was away on a trip with friends to Las Vegas. I'm sure he didn't have any fun of his own.



Easter egg snacks- the breakfast of champions


We hid the eggs from Luke's Easter basket around the backyard for an egg hunt. He had so much fun hunting them that we hid them a second time and he hunted for them again.


Working hard to clean up after this messy bunny


Cue the sunbeam


Bunny booty


Happy Easter everybody!

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Spring Things

We started this post over a week ago but never quite finished it... oh well, here we go...

The last few weekends we've been playing outdoors quite a bit. In true Texas weather fashion, we will enjoy 80 degree, sunny weather one day and freezing temperatures with snow flurries the next. So, we try to take advantage of the nice days which occur more often than not.

We took Luke to the first weekend of Longhorn football practice and hung out on the sidelines with his bud Vince and Vince's parents. Football season is a mere 6 months away, not that we're counting or anything.

Gotta put on some weight if we're gonna make the team


Quick, let's make a run for it!

We bought a kite a few weeks ago and let Luke pick out the one he wanted. He chose the ugliest one there-a weird robots and spaceship kite because he loves robots- who knows why- and he loves rocket ships a la the Little Einsteins cartoon. Here is Louis and Luke taking the kite out for its first flight.

Robokite

The next weekend we wanted to show off our new kite flying skills at the annual Austin kite festival. That day happened to be a super duper windy day, and our cheapo robot kite broke into two pieces within thirty seconds in the air. So sad. Thankfully, there were many other cool kites to enjoy at the festival, as well as a bouncy-house which is always a big hit.


Bouncing in Pooh kite shirt from Aunt Ariane's trip to Hong Kong Disneyland


"It's the biggest kite ever!"


Yesterday morning I came downstairs to this cute sight- Luke watching cartoons, Louis sleeping.

Saturday morning snuggles

Today Louis built an addition to our backyard playscape for Luke. The playscape has a small platform that you have to climb up onto in order to slide down the slide. The only way up was via a verticle ladder on which Luke was equally capable of climbing up and dangerously falling off. So, Louis built a ramp ladder for easier access to the platform. Luke helped out using his wooden toy tools and by stress testing the final product. Turns out he can still find a way to fall, but now it's a bit more unlikely.

Luke the builder, can we fix it? Yes we can!