Ella's 4th of July

Ella's first 4th of July was lots of fun! She was such a trooper even in the heat of the parade! We even got Landon to pose for a couple of pictures which almost never happens!

4th of July!

Olivia
Valerie

Valerie

Olivia

We got up early 4th of July morning and went to the parade in downtown Edmond. The girls were petrified of the sirens and loud motorcycles, but enjoyed the rest! Landon loved the whole thing, especially the Star Wars characters. It rained the night before so the morning was cool and just started getting too hot as the parade was winding down.

The girls had their first ever lollipops today and loved every second of it! Their faces were covered in blue. They also got 4th of July cookies for dessert after dinner which was another special treat for them!

Ella's jumperoo

Ella is now 6 months old and is just starting to learn to jump in her jumperoo! She enjoys being in it and her big sisters love to help her bounce! She has started eating her first baby foods and loves them all so far!

Shaving Cream fun!

Yesterday we had a fun with shaving cream day! We put it in our little pool and went wild with it! It made the bottom of the pool really slippery, so the girls weren't so fond of actually being in the pool, but loved playing with it from the outside! Landon had a ball and was all into slipping and sliding and being the shaving cream monster! It was Landon's idea to add the slide and once the shaving cream was all dried up we added water to the pool and they all slid in to clean off! It was super fun and an easy, messy activity to clean up!

Backyard Painting!

I was watching Kaylin the other day and decided to do some painting with the girls. I put butcher paper up on the back fence and let them go at it! It was a fun idea and they really did enjoy it, the problem was that it was too windy and I couldn't find Kyle's staple gun to secure the paper so it kept blowing away! The girls didn't seem to mind and decided to paint themselves instead! Then I cleaned them all off in the pool!

Oklahoma Zoo

We went to the zoo again on Wednesday with Diane and her kids. The kids had a great time, we however were a bit hot! We each pushed a double stroller, so I didn't have to wear Ella all day since it was ridiculously hot! She however, we found out when we got home was coming down with a fever and was miserable all day! We saw a few animals, played at the park and in the children's zoo and were home by 1:30. This hot humidity is a new thing for me and I think I prefer to just stay inside!

First weekend of summer!

We had a very fun Memorial Day weekend as a family! Saturday morning Kyle and Landon got up to go get dohnuts, which has become routine since we moved here and came back with a plastic pool for our backyard! The kids played in it all morning and had a great time! Saturday afternoon I took Landon down to our community pool to swim. Then Sunday we decided to take a drive to Tulsa to check out some more of Oklahoma. We ended up having lunch in Tulsa at a Pizza place called Joe Mamma's and then stopped at Lake Heyburn which was about halfway back home. It was a fun day to get away and have fun together. Then Monday Kyle was off work so we took the kids to the Oklahoma city zoo. We had a good time. They have a great playground for the kids to play in and a very fun children's zoo with a creek for them to play in and fountains to cool off. We got to see a baby elephant that was born a couple weeks ago- she was so cute. It was pretty hot, but very windy which helped keep us a little cooler.