Time with Lagersens

(warning-I'm a little behind on blogging and trying to catch up... sorry if this is scatter-brained)

We got to spend Labor Day weekend with this fine fellow:

My sister, Sarah, and Liam stopped in for a couple of days before heading down to Austin.

Since we no longer have a guest room we just throw down a mattress on Margaret's floor.

The cousins played on it all weekend.... I highly recommend it.

While Sarah was here, she taught me how to play Yahtzee, babysat for us, and we headed over to the zoo.

It was great having my sister and her dear son around!

Then the Thursday after Labor Day, I headed over to Shreveport with the kiddos.

(Tom headed to Austin for his brother's bachelor weekend)

We stopped off at my mom's school.

She wanted to show her grandkids around.

Too bad Henry went wacko on us.

Margaret was happy to show off, though.

We then joined my grandmother for lunch.

(My grandmother was trying to get Henry in the picture. Wacko, again)


And we did a lot of hanging around my parent's house.

Henry became obsessed with this coo coo Singing Babies video ... I'm telling you, it's weird.

Sarah Grace and Elizabeth (with Emma- due end of October) got sucked into watching it, too.

Lovin' on Papa

Saturday, I went shopping and we did a little more of hanging around the house.

Papa and Henry checked out the ducks

The southern humidity went to town on Margaret's curls.

Uncle Chris did a good job explaining LSU football to Henry.

Margaret says "Go Tigers!'

Sarah and Liam got back in town from their vacation and poor little Liam was pooped.

Had to throw in a picture of Henry's partner in crime, "Maddie Moo".

One of the best things about this trip was that my brother, Josh, drove in from Nashville for a surprise visit. Unfortunately, I have no pics of him and the kids. Bummer. Henry thinks Josh is really cool because he drives a motorcycle and plays the guitar. It was good to see him.

I did get a picture of my childhood home.

I have so many wonderful memories of time spent with my family there.

Sunday, we dragged back home to Texas.

Really ?!?!

I wasn't aware that an 8 month old could climb up a slide.

Hats Off...

... to a great week!

This morning I felt very anxious about the upcoming week- got lots to do!

Being silly with the kids this morning helped ease my worries.

Alice started the silliness- glad to have her around :)

Now let's see if we can actually get out the door and make it to storytime this morning.

8 months

There she is!

Margaret's working on her 4th tooth and has just started to grind the others together... boo/hiss.

We get to see a lot of funny faces because of this.

And she makes funny noises- Henry says "Margaret baby elephant!"
or "Margaret roaring lion!"

Many people have described her as "busy".

I'm feeling better about leaving her to play by herself while I'm in another room for a while.

When MG sees something she wants, she squeals, crawls really fast for it, then tackles it.

Started to slowly "cruise" on the furniture and can walk behind a walker.

Continues to chew on everything.

Speaking of chewing- has gotten TONS better with eating.

She pretty much eats anything we give her- because she skipped the pureed foods, Margaret has tried a wide variety of finger foods.

Favs right now- blueberries, pear, mango, butternut and acorn squash, and cheese.

Tom gave her pork the other day, so it looks like we're moving on to meats this month.

When I tell her to clap, she just puts her hands together and shakes them up and down.

There were numerous crying/screaming pics during this photo session.

This was one of my favs.


"All Done!"

The 80s called...

... and wants it's hair back.

Some light reading

Baseball

We got to enjoy an 83 degree night at the Ballpark (the night before was 103 degrees).... we hiked to the top of the stadium to enjoy the breeze, family, and a W for the Rangers.

Party People

Recently, the kids enjoyed several birthday parties.

The first party was for Paxton, a friend from church.

He had a Cat in the Hat 1st birthday party.

Miss MG with Paxton.

Then there was Michael's at the Dallas Science Museum.

Henry has really been into dinosaurs lately.

Unfortunately, he wasn't into this life size one... freak out!

We skipped the dino dig and went downstairs to the children's area.

Henry and Michael

The funny mirror

I've always said that Henry has a long torso...

... and a huge head!

Margaret was happy to get down and get moving in the infant playroom.

(She doesn't dig the stroller)

Not sure what Henry was doing here... laying the egg???

Chocolate milk always brings a smile.

:)


The last party that day was Ava's 1st birthday party.

It was a watermelon party, so Margaret had to dress the part.

Too bad I was wiped out and didn't take pics of the kids enjoying themselves or of sweet Ava being adorable...

... but as momma, Kim, walked us out, I snapped this one.

It's a perfect depiction of how the kids felt after going to 3 birthday parties.

When we got home I tried to take a pic of the kiddos (what was I thinking?), but only Margaret made the cut, cause Henry was laying of the floor crying, pleading to go to bed.



The next weekend we went to Auriana's,another church friend's, party.

Seeing that I had to fly solo with the kids again, I didn't get any pics, but here's a pic of Margaret with her friend at Paxton's party.

Thanks Paxton, Michael, Ava, and Auriana for including us in your celebrations!