Meet Me In St Louis

Birc and I went to St Louis this past weekend with his parents and had SUCH a great time! The kids stayed with my parents and had a great time too! It was the longest I've ever left them so I was nervous but everybody did so well. (Including me!) 

We went shopping, out to a fancy restaurant, I got a manicure, went to Cardinal Nation (the big place that is all things Cardinal and Budwiser), we rested, we watched the Cardinals play a baseball game, and then came home! It was a great weekend trip! While we were gone, CC and Grandad had loads of fun with the babies. They went to the fair, played with every toy in the house, rode the horsies that used to be Anna's and mine, got donuts on Saturday morning, and just had fun in general. (And got Cardinals shirts upon our return!)

Just Stuff

 Savannah's loving playing dress up these days.  It is so cute!

Walker is crawling, but he's not too happy about it.  He isn't very motivated to move unless he REALLY needs something so his crawling usually involves tears :) Poor buddy.  He'll figure out soon enough that it's nice to move on your own!

"little" brother. hah!

Savannah's classroom has a window right by the sidewalk I often walk by at work and so I've been peeking in, hoping to see her one day, and I saw her this past week! Playing dress up. She signed 'I love you' to me.  it made my heart melt!

we packed up our "exersaucers" and "jumparoo" things this weekend. So I guess we're moving on from those! Floorspace is no longer at a premium!

And below are the first two days of their fall session photos that I forgot to post back on August 18-19.  

Just a note that it is September 11 and I won't ever forget being in high school and hearing about the planes crashing into the world trade centers. Prayers for the families that were closely affected by that tragedy.

Seattle Trip

We arrived in Seattle Thursday and had lots of fun until we had to fly back to Arkansas.  It is always so sad when vacations come to an end.  Here are our pictures from Seattle.  We stayed at The Fairmont and it was great. (sorry these are a little mis-matched and out of order.  They're coming from several sources so of course I can't load them all they way I want them.

gum wall in Seattle. Totally GROSS but we added to it. 

This from Olympia, that I forgot to post! Aiden, Savannah, and their friend Sofina reading books.

The Fairmont provided complimentary milk and cookies for all the kids on our first night.  They were very much enjoyed :)

Walker especially loved his bits of chocolate chip cookie!

it was a workout moving these two little ones.  :)

of course she picked a PINK whale.

Shark shirt for the Aquarium.  Because of course.

Attached at the hip, these two.

Savannah LOVES Anna and Aiden!

Passed out after walking and riding so much!

time to go home!

we took a blanket in our carry-on to put Walker on the floor of the airport so he could move around a little between flights.  It was helpful somewhat until he got OFF the blanket.  

Savannah survived the flights with all sorts of bribery.  A hello kitty doll, an Olaf, a ring pop (pictured above, which she pretended was lipstick and proceeded to put it all over her face), movies galore on Nana's kindle, a million different snacks and candy, coloring, paper to fold and such, stickers, mini-play-doh, a My Little Pony with hair to comb, lip gloss, and going potty on the plane (a blast, I tell ya, to potty with a toddler on an airplane).  Both the kids did remarkably well on all of the 10+ hours we spent at the airport/on an airplane. Twice. Cause once you go you have to come back! 

Hello Arkansas! Woohoo, we were so happy to be back in the Natural State! We missed our kitties and family that we left behind!