Hate Sundays Like These..

Redskins lost to the Cowboy...eh I hate even typing it. I'm going to give myself the evening off of blogger to wallow in my sorrows. Be back tomorrow.

Role Playing

Here are some cute pictures from the Children's Museum yesterday! Mikayla and Julianna had alot of fun dressing up! They were adorable! A "real" post to come in the near future. I need some sleep...we didn't get home from bowling until 2:30 last night and our little darlings had us up at 7 :( Exhausted today!

Family Ties

Ron with Julie and Mikayla

Cousins!

Mikayla, Allie and Kadence playing

Julie on the carousel at the mall

Allie and I

Mikayla

Allie's 1st ride on a carousel!

Trying on hats at Gymboree
Mikayla and Allie

They are so cute together!

Q&A Session with Joe

So for some odd reason the laptop will not upload pictures. On normal nights I would just go to the desktop in the back of the house but I am right in the middle of a scary movie ("Baby Blues") so...pictures tomorrow. I'll post them in the morning. I believe our plans for tomorrow are Children's Museum, Texas Roadhouse and Bowling at Main Event. Busy day! And because I've neglected this blog the last couple of days I'm going to copy Christina and post this survey I did earlier with Joey, I'll do one with Julianna the next time I have a "slow" blog!

What is your name? My name is Joe
How old are you? 5 (as he holds up a whole hand)
What is your favorite color? Green (seriously he wants EVERYTHING green!)
What is your favorite animal? Lizard
What is your favorite TV show? Johnny Test
What is your favorite food? Chicken Nuggets
What is your favorite thing to do? Visit animals
Who is your best friend? Lana (she sits with him on the bus) and Mathew
What is your favorite toy? Army Men (he's just gotten into the whole "military stuff")
What is your favorite song? Pictures to Burn
What do you want to be when you grow up? Herpatologist (that's really what he said!)
Tell me something naughty that you do? Ugh, Nothing (ha, yeah right!)
What is your favorite candy? Chocolate
What is something you are good at? Learning
What is your favorite store to go to? The Big Store (aka Wal-Mart)
What is your favorite thing about Julianna? She's a girl (?)
What is your favorite thing about Mommy? She takes me to the bus
What is your favorite thing about Daddy? He watches TV with me
Joe are you happy? Um Yeah (and he smiled big :)

A Writing Slump

Had a nice relaxing day with Kristy and her family. This afternoon John watched Mikayla and Kristy went with me to the Wednesday rush...Joe's gym and Julianna's dance class. I know I've been slacking on the updates. I promise a big one tomorrow with some new pictures :)

Happy 3rd Birthday Bradley!

Bradley minutes after being born

Bradley on his 1st Birthday

Bradley, Age 2

And Today...Happy 3rth Birthday!

Hope you had a great birthday B-boy! Love you!

A day at the Museum

So...today's plan was to go to the Children's Museum and then meet mom after work. We picked Cindy up after she got off school (at 11) and drove into downtown Houston. After a couple little direction problems we were happy to finally pull into the Children's Museum! We get out, pulled out 2 strollers, put 2 hungry kids in strollers and just as I was about to get Julianna out of her car seat some man yells to us "the Children's Museum is closed on Mondays"! Poor planning on my part! No biggie though. It took all of about 2 minutes for me to realize the National Science Museum was only about 3 miles from where we were at. We get to the National Science Museum, eat and do the butterfly, rain forest and general museum exhibits. We had a really good time! The kids were really good! I'm still amazed at how well behaved Mikayla is for a one year old...so laid back! As I've said before that she fits right in! So we stay at the museum about 3 hours and by this time it's 4 and time to leave to meet mom at The Melting Pot for dinner (we had 5:15 reservations). For those that don't know The Melting Pot is a fondue restaurant and by far the best restaurant on earth!!! John and Kristy had never been and it was the perfect reason to splurge a little. The Melting Pot is usually reserved for "special occasions". Can't think of anymore specialer of an occasion!!! So we enjoy, 2 different cheese fondues, 2 different "Land & Sea" fondues and are you ready...Smores and Milk Chocolate fondue with strawberries, pound cake, gram cracker covered marshmallows, cheesecake and brownie! Seriously, you could stick your entire face in it (Allie basically did)! It's heavenly! Better than sex (every women we've polled has agreed on this!). It's literally to die for! So the bill comes. By this point we are full to the brim on delicious food and high on chocolate. I usually don't talk prices but this was funny. Here is how the convo went.

John-opens the bill and looks at us

Me-What is the bill?

John-I can't even say it!

*By this point we are all gazing aimlessly at each other

Me-I open the bill...drum roll please...$290! I say to the table OMG it's $290 and what do we all do...
BUST OUT LAUGHING! We thought it was the most hilarious thing! I don't know if we were delirious on chocolate or just plan crazy but all we could do was laugh. It ended up being $60 a person, that includes several drinks and we all went dutch so it wasn't a huge bill for any one person. I do have to say though it's well worth it, it may not sound like it, but it is. Sometimes you have to indulge a little. We were there about 2 hours and the kids (aside from some minor Allie problems) were really well behaved! Tomorrow I believe we are doing the Funeral Museum (explain why tomorrow)...

Kristy, John and Mikayla at the museum

Allie and I in front of a big waterfall

My girls!
Allie watching the butterfly

Cindy holding a butterfly, this part of the museum was really cool

Kristy and Cindy eating bugs!

Yummy? I couldn't bring myself to try them!

US!

The Dessert Plate at the Melting Pot

Allie AFTER tackling the dessert plate!

Lots more pictures at my myspace www.myspace.com/lizpilkerton. It's just so much easier to post over there.