halloween

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Starting to play blog catch up here!! 

For Halloween, Kate wore an Ariel dress, and we put Caroline in the clown costume Kate wore for her first Halloween. (It was a 9 month size that ran really big, and Caroline's on the short side, too!) We went to the "Scare on the Square" event in downtown McKinney for a little while, and then we came home for dinner and some trick or treating! It was Kate's first year to go door-to-door, and she had a blast! You might notice she had a costume change. She decided she wanted to change into her bumble bee dress for trick or treating. We have a lot of dress up options in this house!







busy 2 year old

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Lately I've been wanting to take Kate out to get some "nice" portrait-type pictures of her around sunset. Last night was a good opportunity... she had taken a nap during the day, and Nick was in town and could stay home to put Caroline to bed.

I didn't end up getting what I was really envisioning, though; she was only interested in playing in the dirt. She wanted to do anything other than look at the camera. She was determined not to glance up. Did you know this girl has a stubborn streak?












Ha! I caught'cha!! (Eating a leaf, but I'll take it!)






lens baby @ the tunnel at adriatica

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The girls and I met up with our Lens Baby playgroup this afternoon over at a neat tunnel near the Kastel building at Adriatica. The lighting was great; at the edge of the tunnel you could get great light coming into the eyes and on the face, but you could also get more shadows and interesting light the further into the tunnel you went. Kate had a blast, too. After everyone else left, Kate and I played that the tunnel was a pirate ship. She's getting so good at pretending; she kept yelling, "There's a storm coming!" She had fun falling overboard and swimming back to the ship. We will definitely come back here to play again!

Be warned... you are going to go cross eyed looking at these!












july miscellany

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I'm still trying to catch up on editing. Here are a few random July shots I have not shared yet. I'll pull together a Minnesota trip blog post next, and after that, July pictures will be done!







This is how Caroline always sleeps... snuggled up in this corner of her bumper, and usually with a leg kicked up over the other side.



I don't even remember what she was upset about now, but she's such a mess!






ice cream truck

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from June 19

Daddy had just pulled into the garage when we heard "When the Saints Go Marching In," and we ran out to meet the ice cream truck together.

You can tell she got a little nervous when saw the truck... so funny what they decide to get scared about! She turned around and needed Mama to hold her, so I couldn't get any shots of her at the truck.

Looking forward to the day she'll finally outgrow her dairy allergy and can get a real ice cream from the truck! We'll just enjoy popsicles until then.

ice-cream-truck

father's day at the zoo

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from June 18 (STILL playing catch up!)

For "actual" Father's Day, Nick went golfing, so he took the day off on Monday for us to do something as a family. We had never been to the Dallas Zoo, so off we went! We stopped for breakfast at close-by Oddfellows first.

Love how you can see Caroline grabbing for everyone else's food!

fathers-day-breakfast





And here is just a Flickr slideshow of our zoo pics. I didn't really get any good pics of the animals, so these are mostly just of the girls enjoying the zoo! (Or sleeping through the experience, as in Caroline's case.)