Houston, TX

My sister and her family invited us to come stay with them for a little over a week. Kris is in the middle of his surgery rotation so Denzil and I jumped on the opportunity. We had a great time with them and enjoying the wonderful spring weather in TX. We spent a couple of days about an hour north of Austin and so we made our way to a train museum in Temple. It was pretty fun and nice that they had a little room just for kids to play with toy trains and such. Denzil really liked that idea.

You can go inside the cab of his engine and ring the bell and move a few levers and such. It was a bit of a challenge to get all the kids to look at the camera but they had a great time.

On our drive back to Houston we made a stop for lunch with Anita, Kris' sister, and surprisingly Denzil let her hold him long enough to get a picture taken without crying. He is for sure in the "I love mom" stage and would cry while I was taking a shower at my sisters, even with the other kids around to distract him.
Denzil had just woken up and had this sweet hairdo going for him and I couldn't resist the awesome sleeping position of Kate as well.
There is a place near Houston that has a bunch of small trains and tracks set up and on one Saturday a month they do free rides for the public. As we were standing in line I thought that it would be a quick ride because of how frequently the trains were coming in but it ended up being about 10 minutes or so. We had a great time and it was so pleasant out there.

Denzil really had fun with Kate and Sam. They loved playing together most of the time. Denzil started to learn what it is to wrestle.
They have some pretty sweet dress up stuff and this is the dragon suit. I tried to get a better pic of it but I also wanted to get his cute face.

Thanks for a lovely trip Laura, Adam, Kate and Sam. Can't wait until we can do it again!

What we have been up to lately...

A few days before Valentine's Day I took Denzil to Barnes and Noble for their story time and craft time and this is the card Denzil made for Kris.

I know, my kid is so smart already! He did help me write this by holding the crayon with me;)

He is still in love with the park and especially the swings. We have Victoria over one or more times a week and she seemed to love the swings as well. I went to the park with Denzil the other day and I'm pretty sure he spent at least 1/2 hr on the swing. I'm surprised that he didn't get bored. I had to keep switching arms to make sure one muscle didn't get bigger than the other.
He is also in love with bikes. I guess that is why I decided that I should buy him a tricycle today and yes I did cave and get the one with the adult push handle because my back can't take the bending over for that long. He cried at the store when I made him get back in the cart so we could purchase the bike. He wanted to keep riding the "test" bike.

For one of our playgroup times we went to a bounce house that has little kid hours (6 and under) and we had a blast! We went down this slide at least 10 times because I was having so much fun on it.

This was taken a few weeks ago. I have pulled out the maternity clothes and bought a few more because last time I didn't buy much because a girl at work let me borrow hers. Hopefully I can find a couple more pairs of shorts so that I can be cool and comfortable for the summer. No names have been picked yet for this little girl but we are getting more and more excited to welcome her to our family in a few more months.