Swingin'

You mean you're supposed to put your legs through those leg-holes? Now that's just silly.

After church on Easter morning, we went to my parents' house to spend the rest of the day with them and Jess, who was down for the long weekend. We arrived to a whole bunch of goodies-- Easter baskets for Leah and us, as well as an amazing dinner, courtesy of my momma.


Jared is helping Leah model her Easter dress.


Leah is making her snorty "fierce face" in her brand-new walker (an Easter gift from Oma and Opa). She was too small for it and her little legs didn't reach the floor, so we had to make it Leah-sized and fix it for her. She's not a fan just yet, but she'll come around once she figures out she can make it move on her own.

Strolling to the park on Daddy's shoulders after Easter dinner.

Bounce bounce bouncin'

Getting some hugs from Aunt Jess.

Easter celebrations

So I know it's a little late, but Happy Easter everyone! I'll just look at my late posting as another opportunity for all of us to remember Easter and its importance again. See? Now I feel better. :)

And here are pictures of the munchkin.

Leah finds her first Easter basket, complete with rubber ducky, stuffed blue duck (which I am trying unsuccessfully to make her sleeping buddy), and some wiffle balls. Though she likes the wiffle balls, they were a poor choice by me because her little fingers keep getting stuck in those perfectly sized holes.

Here she is, complete with sleepy eyes and bed-head. Mornings can be so confusing.

Well, would you look at that-- it's been a month! In that time span we've gone up to Dallas for our friends' wedding, celebrated Easter, and had some visitors. In an effort to prevent you from going into picture overload, I'll start you off nice and slow.
Here's a picture of Jared and I at Sam and Kevin's wedding in Dallas. Look at us, all dolled up and sans baby. (Leah had her first sleepover at Oma and Opa's house, and she behaved perfectly!) (Side note-- After spending this past week in the field for work, I am no longer this ridiculously pale. Thank goodness!)

Random pictures

She clearly was not up to something, or so she'd like us to believe.

This is inadvertently what happens when you try to get close up pictures these days. Leah sees camera, and Leah tries to get camera. Thus, the image above.

Looks like such a big girl, doesn't she? Little L pulls herself up on everything now... everything. The window sill, coffee tables, dogs, bookshelves, Jared's leg hair, etc. If she can grab it, she's using it to help her up. We're still working on learning how to get back down though, so in the meantime there have been a few tough tumbles! (What you don't know about the picture above is that the window sill is really only 15 inches or so off the ground... so though she looks big and tall, she is in fact not big and tall.)

Fabulous Tuesdays!

Tuesdays are by far the best day of the week for me. It's my one day where I get to be a stay-at-home mom, which is apparently my new goal in life. (I never would've guessed this 4 years ago.) There is just something absolutely magical about being at home with your kid during the week knowing that everyone else is at work. At any rate, here are some photos from last Tuesday's household adventures.

Leah likes to help me do chores around the home.

Like folding laundry...

... and "organizing" the newspaper recycling...

... and cleaning up from the previous night's dinner (Sorry ducky-- no wine for you!)

And then we finished up the day by taking some pictures in the wildflowers. It's Texas tradition to plunk your kids in the bluebonnets and take photos each year, but we don't have any bluebonnets so these will have to do. This is the only photo of the bunch that I took where she is not trying to eat the flowers. Extra fiber, right?

Rodeo time!

A few weeks ago, Jared took the day off and the three of us went to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. It was a fun day, but the place was super crowded with little kids because it was their spring break. Leah was so caught up in the activity around us that she refused to nap all day. Unfortunately, after spending all day at the Livestock Show, we never even got to stay for the actual rodeo. We decided that staying would be pushing it too far and might end in disaster, considering the extremely sleepy baby we had with us and the extremely loud place we were in. So it goes sometimes, right?

Loving on daddy while waiting for the milking demonstration. We didn't stick around for it because (1) the guy presenting it was awful, and (2) Leah claimed she already knew what it was all about.

Enjoying the pig races (side note: Last year I felt Leah kick for the first time ever while watching the pig races at the rodeo!)

Chillin' in the grass for a little bit of "quiet time". Her dress is obviously still a bit too big. What was I thinking putting my 7 1/2 month old baby in a 3-6 month old dress?