Baby Molden

Our dear friends John and Jen Molden had a precious little boy John Grant Molden III. He was born Tuesday, May 5 which was 5 days after Jen's due date. Tonight we went down to Presby Dallas to go welcome little John Grant Molden III. Baby and mom are doing great!

Magnificant this morning

On the way to work this morning, the sun was rising through the clouds and it was....magnificent. It was beautiful. The sun was a soft orangish-yellow color and the clouds had a pink tint as they strolled over the sun. I wish I would of taken a picture, but I was a little busy driving at the moment. Looking at the sun this morning, just made me stop for a minute and soak in the beauty of it. I've been pretty down lately because of my job situation and this morning looking at the sun, it gave me a sense of "it is going to be okay" today.

In bible study, we have been reading a book called, "Mission of Motherhood" by Sally Clarkson (which is fabulous by the way and I recommend all mothers read it). Our last chapter was about teaching our children about nature and how God created everything living thing, etc... We talked in bible study about how our children will go outside and they get excited to see a tree, or a bird, or a rock and how it is always so amazing to them. Taylor loves to see the wind blow the trees. She will stop and stare as the leaves sway in the wind and make that rustling noise. She gets so excited and the other day I stopped and watched it with her. It was pretty neat - it is amazing how we stop noticing things like that the older we get. We can get so caught up in the things we are doing that we miss out on the simple joys in life like watching the wind blow the trees.

For me this morning, watching the gorgeous sun rise, was like the wind blowing the trees for Taylor. I could of stopped and sat and watched the sun rise all morning. It was....magnificent.

Cinco de Mayo

We don't usually celebrate Cinco de Mayo and we didn't today, but we do like to eat Mexican food for sure on this day. We went to dinner with the Huskeys tonight to Anameias for some super yummy Mexican food.

Yall, Taylor almost ate the entire bowl of hot sauce! I think it is relatively hot, hot sauce. It didn't seem to phase her at all. She is definitely related to her Nana. Nathan's mom can eat the hottest stuff there is and it doesn't even phase her. Holy Cow!

Girls night out

Friday night I went to dinner and Pete's Piano Bar with April and her best friend Dee from Houston. We had a great time. We ate dinner at Kenny's Fireside Grill in Addison and then headed to Petes. It was nice having a girls night out and just hanging out. Loved it!



Dee, April and me (Taylor standing infront of me)

Our first mini lesson

Since I am not very busy with work, I thought I would make little mini lessons for Taylor and teach her about topics. The mini lessons will be very short, but we will talk about a topic, look at pictures, read a story about it, maybe do a craft and if possible I would like to take her on field trips at the end of the units. I know her attention span is super short, but if I make it interesting enough, I think she will be able to stay focused long enough.

Today we are going to start our FARM unit and we are talking about barns. I have a coloring page for Taylor to color while I talk about the barn. We are going to go to the library after she colors her sheet and get a book about a barn.

Taylor isn't going to go to KDO next year and this is the last month of KDO before summer. They changed the plan for KDO and 2 year olds have to go 2 days a week. That doesn't work out with my work schedule usually. I had a hard enough time getting her to school on Wednesdays, so we finally changed to Thursdays. There is no way I could do 2 days and I don't want her to always be missing days and I don't want to make it hard on the teachers. Anyways, it is up to me to teach her about everything there is and to expand her mind.

Update: Our first lesson went great on Friday. Taylor is coloring a picture of a barn and the letter 'B'.

New Patio

We are going to add a covered patio on the back of the house. They poured the concrete today. We are hoping they can come build the cover sometime in the next few weeks. Now we need to find some patio furniture. We already have a table and chairs, but we want a sitting area so we can sit outside and watch Taylor play. We had contemplated putting in a screened patio, but we were afraid it would make the backyard look to small.

Taylor put her hands in the fresh concrete and made the cutest little handprints. Then she wanted to keep putting her hands in the concrete, so we have two little hand prints and three little finger prints in our new concrete next to the back door.

Before the new patio

Taylor watching them make the new patio

Taylor making her hand print. This is the face I get when I say "smile Taylor".

Taylors little handprints.

The finished new concrete area.

Patient Baylor

Taylor and I have been going to visit the precious little Baylor the Bulldog a few days this week while Kami is stuck at work till late at night and Brandon is out of town. Baylors' eye didn't look good and she was lethargic when we went to see her yesterday and Kami couldn't get home, so Taylor and I took Baylor to the doctor. Taylor loves playing with Baylor and loved taking her to the vet. After the vet, we brought Baylor home to play with Tait and Beaux.

Taylor loved walking Baylor around Petsmart.