Easter in Rockport

We headed down to Rockport for Easter this year.  Lots of fun in the sun with family.

 Taking a ride on Pong Pong's pontoon.  Eliza HATES wearing a life jacket!

 A banana helped keep her mind of wearing her life jacket

 Helping Pong Pong drive the boat.

 Keeping one hand on Eliza, the monkey, at all times to keep her from jumping overboard.

The Easter bunny came to Rockport!

 Finding her first egg

 Eliza was a little confused.  Before Olivia got up, Eliza helped the "Easter Bunny" hide all of the eggs.  When she got out there with her basket, we were trying to get her to put the eggs IN her basket and all she wanted to do was take them out and put them back!

Finding eggs on the putting green!

 Uncle Matt helping out.

 With Ducky

 I thought showing her that there were treats inside the eggs would get her interested in collecting eggs.  It just got her interested in eating everything in all the eggs!

 My gorgeous girls!

My fam :)

Dance Photo Shoot

Olivia had a costume check and photo shoot at her dance studio.  I think she looks adorable!  She looks so different and grown up with her hair up and no glasses!  This is Andrea and Caroline, two or her close friends from school who are in another dance class.

Easter Egg Hunt at School

Olivia had to decorate an egg carton to bring to the egg hunt at school.  I got really into it and spent a ridiculous amount of time making it perfect!  Olivia helped...a little :)

 I painted it with acrylic craft paint.  Then sprayed it with adhesive spray and sprinkled it with glitter.  I made some flowers with coordinating cupcake liners.  Then found some Washi tape that matched perfectly and added some foam letters and jewels.  Olivia loved it and thought it was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen! It was perfectly fancy for my fancy girl.

 She had to fill it with 12 treat filled eggs.  They numbered all of the children's eggs 1-12 and during the hunt, they had to find one of every number to fill their carton.  I thought that was such a clever idea.  It made the hunt last longer and I loved that she only had 12 eggs of candy and not 50!

The "flowers" I made.

 So proud and excited!

 Making sure she didn't already have this numbered egg

 With her friend, Madison

 With Andrea

 Easter party!!

 With my cute big girl!

Potty Training?!?!

Eliza has decided to potty train herself.  I am sooo not ready for this.  She loves being a big girl on the potty and thinks it is a really fun game.  She wasn't even two yet when all of this started!!  She wants to be just like her big sister.  She has some days were she never has a wet diaper all day and others where she is not at all interested.  If she asks to go, I take her.  But I am not really encouraging her at all.  I am not interested in doing the Houston public restroom tour.  If we are at home, that is one thing.  But out and about is another!

Spring Break

Yes, I am this far behind on the blog!!!  We have a had a really busy few months!

We went to Rockport with our good friends, The Leedys for Spring Break.  We all had way too much fun!  Both of their children are each about a year younger than Olivia and Eliza and play really well together.  The Leedys are moving to Singapore at the end of May and we will miss them so!

 Trying on Mama's giant hat!  Eliza is allergic to regular baby sunscreen on her face.  The two types of sunscreen that don't cause her to break out are the thickest, most pasty sunscreen ever.  Mike put it on her had it pasted all over her face a scalp the entire weekend.  I washed her hair 8 times every bath and it just stuck!

 Keeping the littles in the stroller as long as they could stand it, to keep them out of the water and shells!

 The girls loved the shell beach and found so many treasures.

 We finally let them out to get into trouble!

Checking out what the big girls were up to

 We took Pong Pong's pontoon boat out for Eliza's first boat ride

 Ross and Sophie

 Carrie and Charles

 Helping Daddy drive the boat

The girls!

 Mike and Ross bought several pounds of fresh oysters to try and re-create the char-grilled oysters we had at ACME in NOLA

 They were DELICIOUS and just like the ACME ones

Deliciousness on a plate!

More Rodeo Fun

We hit the rodeo one last time and actually went to the livestock show this time.  Lots of the little boys were offering pictures with their pigs for a couple dollars.  Olivia really wanted to get in there with this one :)

 

 Sitting ON this poor sleeping pig!

Fun rides!

Rocket Ship

Olivia brought this home the other day.  Really really hard not to laugh out loud.  She was so proud of her "rocket ship" ;)

Markers

So, markers are put up on a high shelf in our house for now.  At least she isn't biting the tips of the markers off anymore.  I was sitting RIGHT THERE when this happened, by the way!

Ready for Summer!

I know two little girls who can't wait for the pool to be warm enough to swim. Eliza now frequently requests, "toes, pool" :)

Soon after these pictures were taken, Eliza's dress was getting really wet and so we took it off.  A few days later while dipping their toes, both girls began getting completely naked and actually got in the pool!  It was only 69 degrees!  They both said it wasn't cold, but their legs were so pink from the cold water.