Mommy Daughter Date

One Friday evening, Lexa asked me to take her out, just me and her(and Hugh). I said, "Why not?" It was so nice that I ended up asking, "Why don't we do this more often?" 

Lexa decided to change clothes for this special occasion, and we headed to downtown Sabinal. 

We went to an antique/thrift store. I found my happy place looking at all the old things from bygone daysin there. (And everything was only a few dollars!) Lexa said it was okay, she guessed. Lexa's shopping interest is still mostly limited to toy stores and children's clothing stores at this point. 

Then we tried to get sno cones, but apparently the sno cone trailer in Sabinal is never actually open. 

So we headed to A's Cafe, which is the 2nd of the two restaurants in Sabinal. I'd never tried it, so I thought this would be a great time to do so, but a sign on the door, said cash only. Lexa wasn't really enthused about it anyway, so instead of an ATM, we went to The Oasis store and restaurant in Uvalde where Lexa really, really, really wanted to go because she loves the big salad bar and apparently also sitting right under the taxidermied giraffe.

Here's my thrift store haul for the day!

This is Lexa's pick at the thrift store. The dog opens and closes it's eyes when you tilt the mug.

It was a fun evening getting out and coming home happy. I'm so glad I have a daughter. Hopefully we'll keep this up and have many more Mommy and daughter dates in our future.

Summer Reading

We sometimes get books in the mail from Granddad for the kids. We went through the Man in the Moon series this spring, which were great. He just got one from him called Ollie, and Timmy cracked it open and started reading immediately. 

Painter

This summer Lexa paints almost everyday. I finally just started leaving her paints out ready on the table.

Racetrack Yard

Patrick started mowing the yard, but got really hot and tired, so he stopped for the day. We ended up with a big rectangular path around the yard which Will declared excitedly was a racetrack! 

Lexa and Will proceeded to race each other around it many times. It was great because they'd been cooped up inside way too much avoiding the heat, full of energy and driving me crazy.

Building, puzzling, robots

Another trip doseum.

Timmy put together a big map puzzle of the US.

Robots!

Napkin Hats

When Lexa sets the table, she likes to fold the napkins. She folded and taped them this time. Will said they were hats, of course.

Inner Tube Crawl

Hugh had so much fun crawling around in and out of the kids swim floaties. He was just stealing and laughing away.

A little rest break

Super Kids

Will said,"Look! I'm Wonder Man! to the rescue! I will save the baby!"

He loves to play dress up these days.

Homemade toy

Timmy made a trailer for Will to hook on to his remote control car.