hot air balloon glow

today we drove an hour to longview, tx to watch the hot air balloon glow. there was a kids land park, that had at eight inflatable bouncers, one was a blue train that miles named "thomas"and played on for the entire time at at the airfield.  after the "all glows" set up by the balloon pilots, the night came to an end, where miles was ready to "go home & night night." it was a fun little roadtrip for us all.

miles and his favorite bouncy train

the "thomas" inflatable

beautiful hot air balloon

becoming a southerner

when do you get to call yourself a southern gal? is it when your baby has a little "joe dirt" mullet you can't bring yourself to trim? is it when you don't mind humidity? or is when, you just love to go to crawfish boils?
answer-all of the above.
our neighborhood had their annual crawfish boil. it was a nice way of getting out and meeting our neighbors, since we are still fairly new to the neighborhood. the HOA board members put brought out pounds and pounds of crawfish. it had to have been at least 300 lbs. now, that's a lot of crawfish. chris is not a big fan of eating crawfish, but i on the othe hand, love it! oh, and i love the potatoes and corn that come along with it. guess, this okie may be turning cajun.
miles and his first crawfish

yummy!

mj & mommy at our neighborhood park

tia lally visits!

tia "lally" is miles' aunt areil-my sister. we were happy to have her visit us for 9 days, and would you believe that wasn't enough :) it was so nice to have her here, and love, play, laugh, shop, eat, drink wine, and play some more. we did several projects, but the main goal i wanted her to do was spend time with miles, and that we happily accomplished.


aunt areil & miles at the boardwalk

our own miles "phelps"

miles just loves his waterbaby class. we go twice a week to class, and can only stay between 30-45 minutes at a time. right now at this stage is all about getting miles comfortable with the water. he does kick and splash, but for the most part just loves to be in the water. one of miles' swimming buddies is three, and is an awesome swimmer, he can swim the length of the pool, and play "rescue" with the frogs and retrieves from the bottom of the 4 foot pool. awesome!
this week i was able to bring areil (my sis) along with us, and she got some great pics of miles and i in the pool.


waterbaby


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