i just LOVE target. i think every mom does. you can get almost EVERYTHING there...groceries, shoes, clothes, baby gear, toys, etc. i pretty much get all of beckett's clothes there...khaki shorts are khaki shorts...polos are polos...you know what i mean? there isn't a whole lot crewcuts, gap, gymboree, etc. can do to make them fancier than they come @ target. target has the madras plaid...the critters...target has it all!! and then, i came across these cute shirts the other day...they aren't a new idea...but how cool is it that target has them? for 5.99?!?! i got them in all different sizes so he can grow into them. i don't want it to look like he attends a concert every night. i think i spent $50 or more for ellis' pink floyd one from when she was a baby. i happened to buy it @ barney's...maybe that had something to do with it?
how appropriate that he breakdances while wearing this one :)
he looks so guilty here...like "i am so busted"
he is so crazy about brushing his teeth...he screams @ the bathroom door until i let him in to get his toothbrush (or ellis'...as you can see he using a dora one here...but she ditched that one for a little mermaid toothbrush)...what am i going to do about that hair???
ellis had her first ever swim lessons last week. she went for 5 days straight for 30 minutes a day...one on one. they are intense lessons...there was crying...and she is for sure traumatized for life...BUT...she would now survive a fall into the pool :) the last day of lessons...you literally walk in and glendy tosses your unsuspecting child into the pool...flipping them in the air so they don't have a bearing on where they are (she actually first did this on day 2 i think). if you are in the market for lessons- glendy of glendy's waterbabies is so great. she is on facebook and takes kids as young as 6 months. she thought ellis was hilarious. any chance she got, she would tell glendy she needed to tee tee or poo poo. we weren't buying it :) and when she would come up to the top of the water everytime, after being thrown in the pool, ellis would say, "i don't want a sleeping beauty cupcake maker anymore"...the item i had chosen to bribe her with to get her swimsuit on everyday. i will post a video of her in action soon!
we had a fun filled long weekend in austin for memorial day...it had been FOREVER since we had been so it was really nice to be back. we got in thursday afternoon...and spent it w/ a slip n slide and baby pool for the kids (after a little shopping of course...bebe bought ellis THE cutest dress for 4th of july...no idea what we are doing for it yet, but ellis will be adorable). that night brandon and i got to go out...eddie v's...yum. saturday we went to the domain & maude's. yum again. brandon and i spent the afternoon @ hula hut... then abel's...we were so spoiled having bebe there...later that night we had a couple of beers @ the starley's beautiful, new house. we finished the night w/ mexican train back @ our house on the patio...fun!! i know you are laughing right about now margaret! we swam in my cousin's pool all day saturday and came home sunday...my birthday :)
just a little naked lawn mowing...
so sweet :) somebody needs a manicure!
at the austin house...EVERYTHING that can be longhorn is longorn...here is ellis coloring @ her longhorn table...other university of texas items @ the house include a tricycle, stick bevo (instead of stick horse), puzzles, bevo-in-the-box, rubber bevo for bath, stuffed bevos, crib bedding, longhorn tutu, blow up bevo, and much much much more...and these are only the things for the kids. my parents should own stock in the co-op.
there are few things in this world better than maude's queso!
more sweetness...i swear, i do NOT tell her to do this...for real
he lost the watergun fight :)
happy memorial day!!!
