Jaedyn Melts My Heart!

I'm blogging this so I don't forget it! Today we went to Sea World as a family. Yes, it was hot! Yes, it was VERY crowded! Yes, there was crying involved. But, I'm starting to realize how grown up Jaedyn has become and I enjoy hanging out with her. We were floating the "river" just talking. She was asking all about blood, the heart, the body, etc. She was asking how blood was made and if it helped you breathe. I was trying to explain as simply as possible about blood carrying oxygen, etc. She kept asking how it was made. I told her the God made it when he made our bodies. She contemplated that for a few seconds and then said, "When I get up there, I'm going to check out that factory!" Can't you just picture God on an assembly line? She said, "I bet he uses ketchup and then just adds some air."

This evening, she got on a kick about owls. She wanted to know all about them. She dug around on her book shelf until she found the book Owls by Gail Gibbons (awesome non-fiction author by the way!). We read it and she was just fascinated, although a little scared of them. When I got up to leave she told me I was her best friend and that she "loved me higher than the trees". I told her I loved her higher than the clouds. She finished with, "well then I love you higher than heaven." She's just an amazing 5 year old and I'm so blessed to be her mommy!

Here are a couple of recent pictures. One is of Jaedyn at her friend Amber's birthday party (at a farm) and the other is on the day of her preschool graduation at Walmart getting her new bike!

P.S. My little Mally is pretty special too!!!! :-)

New Additions to the Family (yard)!

Check out our new trees! We're pretty excited, as you can tell. No one else would post six pictures of trees on their blog. They are both red oaks and they make the live oak the builder planted look pretty sad. I didn't get a picture comparing them to our puny live oak tree, but you can see some of its leaves in the second to last picture.

Jaedyn Writing!

For those of you who know Jaedyn well, you know that she pretty much HATES to write. Her teachers say that she hardly ever chooses to go to Writing Center, and I can't ever get her to write much more than her name. If she can't do something perfectly, she doesn't want to do it at all and writing is something she has struggled with. Well lately, she has been writing a lot on her own. I try not to push her when she starts, because then she quits. It has to be HER idea, not mine. I caught her doing this in her classroom when I picked her up the other day. She spelled everything on her own. She first wrote "bus" wrong, but corrected herself once she saw it.

Here are some other recent "works". This is a picture of the Easter bunny (see the basket on his back) and the ECE which is "easter". Also, she drew Chuck E. Cheese and copied the letters from a lunch box that she has.

She had to make a "Me Bag" of things that were important to her. Here she drew a church and wrote the word. She is obsessed with finding steeples right now, so she made sure her church had a big one. She also drew her and her friend Sydney and a playground.

Here is the other picture that went in the "Me Bag". It's a picture of baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph with the angel above them. You can also see Jesus on the cross (upper center). When I asked her what the other things were, she laughed and said, "a hanging triangle and a hanging square." Makes sense to me!

Fiesta Fun!

The girls had fun making their floats this year. Jaedyn did hers all by herself! She was DETERMINED to NOT have my help, even though I had big plans. :-) Jaedyn was a little overwhelmed by her parade, but said she enjoyed it. Mallory had a great time, too! We also celebrated fiesta this year by going to the King William Fair for the 2nd year in a row. Jaedyn kept up with tradition by having her roasted corn. Mallory went for the cotton candy this year!

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Bluebonnet Pictures!

"Bluebonnet patches....you know what that means??" Jaedyn said this to me one day and she knew exactly what it would mean...pictures!!! The girls actually enjoyed taking these for a change. Cookie bribery helped, but they also liked their new dresses and wanted to show them off. It was really windy and I had to get rid of some trash in the background, but overall I think they turned out nice. It's about time I updated this blog!!!!!!! Enjoy!

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Our San Marcos Trip

Monday we took a little "staycation" trip to San Marcos. Grant and I wanted to eat at a couple of our favorite restaraunts, so we decided to make a day of it. We ate lunch at Alvin Ord's, then headed to Wonder World. Some people say you "wonder why you went" when you leave. Actually the girls really enjoyed it. We walked through the cave, which was very difficult at times because the "ceiling" was low and the terrain was rough. Then you take an elevator out of the cave all the way to the top of the tower that overlooks San Marcos (and beyond). We also toured the Anti Gravity house and rode the train to the petting zoo to feed the deer, which the girls really enjoyed also. Since we wanted to stay for dinner, we spent some time on the Texas State campus. It was a BEAUTIFUL day and the girls enjoyed running around. Our dinner at Herbert's was wonderful and worth the trip! Here are a few pictures and here's a link to more if you're interested:

www.julielawrencephotography.com/sanmarcos/index.html

Jaedyn on top of the Wonder World tower, with the university in the background.

Girls in the cave!

Friday, December 26, 2008

Sharing our Christmas!

Another Lawrence Christmas is in the books! Once again the girls were spoiled beyond belief. Grant and I sat on the floor tonight (after unloading bags and bags of gifts) and opened ALL the gifts and rescued the toys from their twistie-tie entrapments. Notice the Sara Grove lyrics about Toy Packaging...very funny, and so true. ALSO, who thought to make toys with SO MANY TINY parts??? Obviously someone who has never vacuumed up a Polly Pocket shoe because it looked like dust! To illustrate, I found the 4 smallest parts and laid them next to this quarter:

1. Ponyville shoe

(yep, each pony hoof has a teeny, tiny shoe. 6 total ponies this year, 24 teeny, tiny shoes)

2. Polly Pocket sunblock bottle

3. Polly Pocket shoe
(we have tons of these, because apparently Polly needs flip flops, boat shoes, and dress shoes on her boat)

4. A dot from the Pixio art thingy

(1500 of these!)

And here are the toys responsible for the tiny parts, now safely inside Ziploc bags (until morning when the girls wake up and the bags are never to be used again!)
Here are most of the gifts (couldn't get them all into one shot) after Grant and I opened all the boxes. Some favorites this year were:

Jaedyn-roller skates, Leapster, Geo Trax airport

Mallory-Yo Gabba Gabba dolls, Wonder Pets Flyboat, candy!

Mommy and Daddy-the silence of this night

Some of the toy carnage:

The girls did great this year and LOVED Santa's visit on Christmas Eve. Jaedyn broke down Christmas night about 7:30 and went into major meltdown mode, but when I tucked her into bed that night, with her eyes still closed she smiled and told me Merry Christmas. Then she sat straight up in bed and announced that it wasn't a school night and she could watch TV. So much for tired....

Last story...We took the girls to our church's children's Christmas service and they had these big camels "walk" in and the people "walking" the camels sprayed the audience with water like the camels were spitting. The service was beautiful and meaningful and I tried to explain each part to Jaedyn as it happened. Later that evening, I asked her what we celebrate on Christmas. According to her, "Baby Jesus was born, the wisemen came, and the camels spit".

I hope everyone had a wonderful day and stopped to think about the TRUE meaning of Christmas!

Now, go to the next post and enjoy our video. It's about 3 1/2 minutes, but worth it to see J's meltdown at the end!

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