At lunch with O. He and I are having Chick-fil-a. M is having a pb & j from the school cafeteria. Don't ask me why one would choose pbj over CFA.

M photos

MH's mom took these photos of the girls this morning.  M only wore lipstick for pics.  More to come after recital day later in the month!

Mother's Day

I failed miserably by not getting at least a phone call off to my mom.  Sorry mom!  Hope you had an awesome day!  C at least called his mom so I figured I'm covered there!  Hope all of you wonderful moms had a wonderful day.

We started the day out by having donuts in the car as we drove C to the airport.  He was off to Florida for the shuttle launch.  We are all so excited that he gets to do that this time.  Since this mission is to the Hubble Telescope and not to the ISS (International Space Station), it frees up lots of people who would otherwise have to be ready to work.  So C will be in Florida thru Thursday evening.  

If we had planned ahead appropriately, this would have been a perfect week for a family member to come and stay with us to help out with child care.  Oh well, maybe we'll figure it out early next time!  As it is, I have my new semester starting.  Since I will be missing some classes later in the semester when we go to Rochester, I want to avoid missing classes now.  Especially so early on.  So, the kids will be at GAB until around 11 pm on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday nights.  O has a baseball game on Thursday evening so I will be dropping him off at the home of one of his teammates/friends.  They will get to play together and go to the game.  After the game, they will make sure that O has had dinner then drop him off at GAB for me to pick up later.  It all works out.  I've already sent a note to his teacher letting her know that he may be tired and/or out of sorts this week.  I think I have all of my bases covered.

Now that I've gotten off of the subject, let me meander back to the path I was on...

After dropping C off at the airport yesterday, we headed off to a new dog park at Bay Area Park.  Brody was such a good dog and had so much fun with his doggy friends!  The area that they have designated for the dog park is HUGE!  Plus they have separate areas for dogs under 20 lbs and those over 20 lbs.  It was really fun watching them all play and the kids loved it too.  After Brody tired out some (it was so hot!) we took him over and gave him a doggy shower which he enjoyed too.  Then we went over to the playground for the kids to get to play.  I think we were at the park for about 2 hours.  We were sweaty and stinky but it was fun.  

After we got Brody home, we took off again to head downtown to Discovery Green park.  I knew that the parking would be crazy so I opted to park at the zoo, take the little Hermann Park train to the stop near the MetroRail and then we took the light rail downtown.  We had to walk about 5 blocks from the train station to the park but, like I said, we were already sweaty and stinky so it didn't matter much at that point!

We had fun on both trains, enjoyed all of the people and activities that were going on at Discovery Green and were excited to be surrounded by the Toyota Center (where the Rockets were playing) as well as Minute Maid park (where the Astros play).

We ended the day at Lupe Tortilla for mexican food before we headed home for baths!  It was a full day and we had fun.  It was a "good tired" once we got home.  Everyone was in bed and asleep by 9:45 pm.    

Must get makeup for M's recital. Teacher says they need stage makeup so as not to look washed out. Hmmmmmmmmm...

At least we were eating outside so no damage done! Happy Mother's Day!

(2/2) peed her pants. Nice timing huh?

(1/2) Now at Lupe Tortilla. My strawberry margarita arrived followed shortly by M saying she hadshe had to pee. I stood up to take her to the bathroom & she