Playing and Chasing

The weather was absolutely perfect today in Lubbock. Just after lunch time it was in the upper 60's, so we decided to take Taylor to the park to play. It was overcast and there was even some humidity in the air! It was wonderful!! Taylor had a great time crawling around the jungle gym and had a better time chasing ducks!!

Tyson likes to pretend that we're hiking...thus the hiking back pack!
Luckily Taylor's a good sport about it!

As soon as she's out of the back pack, she's ready to see the ducks!

We forgot to bring food for the ducks, so we had to pretend like we were throwing stuff to get them to come close to us. These ducks are some of the park's older babies...they are so cute!

Taylor's first chase victim....up, up and away!

A set of five very lazy geese. They refuse to fly so they just run from her.

Taylor actually got pretty close to them at this point.
That's when the geese realized that she meant business!

She's like a little herding dog....at this moment she's turning them around.

The last two geese tried to hold out getting into the water as long as
they could, but Taylor wasn't stopping!

Bye bye geese!

Taylor and Daddy at the top of the slide.

Woo hoo!

Exploring the jungle gym

With a little help from Daddy, Taylor can get just about anywhere she wants!

xoxoxoxo

Scooting down the steps on her bottom....such a good girl!

Anniversary Party & More

What a fun weekend we just had! We went to Dallas for a couple of days and hung out with Mimi, Poppa, Aunt Haley and Uncle Ryan. Mimi bought Taylor the coolest frog pool that had a slide. Unfortunately, the slide was so sticky that Taylor had a hard time going down. Leave it to Tyson to come up with a redneck idea....we sprayed Pam all over it! Taylor just zipped down it after the slide was sprayed down!

We headed to Lake Fork on Friday to spend the weekend there celebrating Tyson's grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Lake Fork is such a beautiful place...we all had such a great time. We were just thrilled to be around trees and water again!

We returned to Dallas on Sunday and spent that night celebrating Haley's upcoming birthday. Taylor got to see her friends, Shelby, Jerzey and Knox, and we got to see our friends Brennan, Amy, Andrew, Jama, Ryan and Brian. We had lunch with Mimi and Poppa on Monday and then headed back to dear old Lubbock. Fun trips like this make it hard to go back home!

Mimi's cool frog pool (that Gabby later popped!)

Taylor liked trying to get the water that was shooting out

Getting a little help from Daddy on the slide

No help needed anymore!

Mimi, Taylor and Aunt Patty

Taylor and Uncle Ryan

Taylor loves walking around with no help

Taylor hardly does anything without sticking her tongue out

Exploring with Daddy

Walking like a big girl with Aunt Haley

Mommy and Taylor

Acting silly with Mimi as usual!

The happy anniversary couple

Helping flip burgers

Playing catch with Sterling and Poppa

Tyson and his cousin Kevin acting crazy

Walking with Poppa and Mimi

Haley getting some help from Jerzey blowing out her birthday candles

Summer-Time Fun

Wow! It's been really hot in Lubbock lately. Unfortunately, it's been really windy and dusty as well...so we've been feeling trapped in the house!! Every chance we get, we go outside and either go to the park with Belle or we swim in our little swimming pool.

Taylor is becoming such a big girl. She walks more than she crawls. She's constantly exploring her surroundings....and to my lack of excitement, she's figuring out stuff that I was hoping we wouldn't have to worry about for some time. For instance, she's discovered how to flush the toilet. AND!! She's figured out how to pick her nose! So gross!! She was walking around all last night with her finger up her nose. Granted, she hasn't discovered that she can pull something out of it!! While at Target today, I noticed a lady giving Taylor a funny look while I was picking out cards so I looked at Taylor and she had her finger as far up in her nose as she could get it. It was so sick!

We started swimming lessons this past Monday. It's been really fun. She has no problem on her tummy....laying on her back is a completely different story. She is not very fond of it...at all!! The first time that I laid her on her back, I thought she was going to rip my hair out...she basically spassed out! By the end of the week, she's gotten more comfortable with it; however, she still does not care for it. Since Wednesday, we've been practicing blowing in their faces and dipping their heads in the water. We first had to blow in their face and then dip them down to their chin. Every time that I blew in Taylor's face, she would just laugh. The next day we dipped them down to their noses, and then today we dipped them to their foreheads. Taylor did really well! She still doesn't close her mouth (she's too busy smiling at me from blowing on her), but she does a good job at not swallowing the water.

Trying to figure out her new ladybug bottle!
She's not sure whether to drink from it or play with it.

Just chillin' with her daddy

Hanging out in her chair, waiting for her swimming pool to be filled up.

What a sweet face!

Picking out the toys that she wants to play with.

At last! In the pool and loving it!

Taylor makes this face when she doesn't get her way....which happens to be all of the time latley!!

Every day is a new adventure...today's adventure is to shove this ball in her mouth!

Waiting for swimming lessons to begin

Taylor's supposed to be reaching for her toy that's in front of her, but she sees her daddy instead!

Getting some practice time on her back (NOT her favorite!!)

Starting to get squirmy

Kicking those legs (with a little help from Mommy)