Oh Holy Poop

One of Wesley's Christmas gifts was a potty chair, and tonight he had his first successful poo in the chair! Very exciting.

Sorry, no pictures.

New Embroidery Machine.

After four craft fairs and a few internet sales we were finally able to get an embroidery machine - Yay!
Here are a few samples of what I've been sewing lately.

Clark Gardens

Clark Gardens Fall Festival 2009

Pumpkin Golf...more like hockey

Scavenger Hunt...smelling herbs

Yuck!

G scale Train Village

First Haircut

Before (at Sea World)

After...love his expression.

Labor Day Weekend in San Antonio

Nothing like a spontaneous trip to San Antonio! Friday night we decided to take a mini vacation and see the Alamo, River Walk, and Sea World.


Larry and Wesley at the Alamo. It was neat, but kinda disappointed in the lack of information on the battle. I guess we have been spoiled by Civil War Battlefields. But, it was free.

The first Saturday of the month just happens to be a special event. This is us with reenactors.


Sea World
Sea World

Family pic with flamingos

Waiting for a show

Waiting for a show

Budweiser Wagon.

Sea World was nice but the last time Larry and I where there was in the early 90s (separate trips). They have a water park and big roller coaster rides now both of which we did not do. There was just one fish tank and no hands on aquatic stuff for kids. The shows were nice but overall it was not Wesley friendly. He did surprisingly well at the shows and enjoyed watching the animals do tricks.

Flip Ya For Real

I think Wesley is ready for Mat Rats, a toddler class at a local gymnastics studio, starting in September.

Laptop Sleeve and Log Cabin Village

Today's sewing project, a laptop sleeve complete with appliquéd initials. Of which I made start to finish after visiting the Fort Worth Log Cabin Village Living Museum. Definitely worth the $3.50 admission.

Smoke House

Wesley being Wesley

Looking at the mill and fish in the pond.

Dancing Queen and Puppy Pillow

Today I finished sewing Wesley's puppy neck pillow to use in his car seat while he sleeps. It's a little big now, but he will be able to use it for a very long time.
I also took some video of his dancing skills. Enjoy!

Dallas Aquarium

Lee drove into town April 3rd to pick up Grammy after her 3 week visit. On the last Saturday of their visit we went to the Dallas Aquarium for Wesley's birthday. Instead of taking two cars all the way into Dallas we decided to try the Trinity Railway Express (commuter train) that runs between Fort Worth and Dallas. The train was pretty cool and cleaner than I expected except for the bottle of mad dog 20/20 grape red wine. Overall the ride was uneventful, but much better than driving all the way into downtown Dallas. After getting off the train, we hopped on the light rail for one stop and ate lunch at Chipotle. This was the largest Chipotle I have ever been in, and I have been in a lot of Chipotles. The odd thing was it did not have its own bathroom. Instead, you had to ask for a key and go down to the basement. After lunch we walked to the Aquarium. The Aquarium was pretty cool, not as big as Baltimore's but still very nice. There were lots of colorful birds and a rainforest atmosphere throughout. It does beat the Baltimore Aquarium for the sloth. At Baltimore you had to search far and wide for the sloth, in Dallas they had two trees for it to roam around and it was very easy to watch him. In the large tank there were lots of very large water turtles swimming around. Wesley loved to watch them swim and he kept pointing at them. After the Aquarium we walked to Founder's Park where there is a very old cabin with no plaque...how are we supposed to know how old it is? After Founder's Park we walked to Dealey Plaza and saw the grassy knoll and book depository. (You may giggle here if you are reminded of a joke). Next we walked to a restaurant near the train station to cool off and wait for the train.

Grammy and Kylee on the train.

Lee and Kaleb on the train.



Larry and Wesley on the train.

Grammy and Wesley checking out the rainforest.

Turtles!

More Turtles.

Shark
More shark.

Mary, Larry and Wesley.

Mary, Wesley and turtles.

Kaleb, Kylee and Grammy.

glowing jellyfish.

Turtle souviner.

Founder's Park

Resting.

At the train station family photo.

Four generations Bryce Family

Four generations Mary family.

Happy Birthday Wesley!