Olympics and Colorado

Hey Blogtrotters,

Here's pics from Colorado.  The girls loved it.  Highlights, for them and others, included playing in the river and looking for treasures, picking raspberries each day with Sheila, walking Lilly, being outside without threat of heat exhaustion, going to a fish hatchery and going to a goat farm (dairy).  The video at the end is our tribute to the Olympics, our dream is for them to be synchronized divers so they were able to practice on the couch. I'll do another post later this week solemente on goat farming, you'll like it...guarantee.

ellie

Tilly

ellie

Ellie

Tilly and Crunkle Chris

That's sweet.

Fresh Raspberry pancakes

Ellie picking berries

In the river finding treasure

video game time!

little tilly

Tilly's awesome play-doh

Tilly

More treasure, 39 degree water

later she told me her boots got wet, but didn't know how.

feeding the fish at the farm

watching/catching bubbles

Zoo School for Grandpa

Hello Friends, I'm here in SA with the girls while Abby does her part for the environment one well researched article at a time.  We've had a great trip and perhaps the girls won't come back too spoiled since I'm here keeping a curmudgeonly eye on things.  The ladies have had a blast at the Witte Museum as well as the pool; these pictures all come from the zoo.  Ellie is in orange panda and Tilly with pink owls, if you can't tell be the hair.  Oh, and we had camera issues so if they seem a little off, it's you and you should visit the optometrist soon, and don't drive at night.

$2.00 well spent

My favorite part, the picture with the lions

We played "peek-a-boo" allowing Nana to a split second to get a great pic



Nana took 7 pictures of this plant so I thought I should include it.

"food girl"

Wild Animal



Wilder Animal

In their natural habitat

Doesn't Daddy look pleased to be sitting on a bird poop stained deck holding dirty fish food for the girls?

Rascal, a Dwarf Mongoose

Elephant Ears!

Dance Dance Revolution!

Dearest Blogtrotters,

Here are the photos from their dance recital in late May, I just realized that I had neglected to allow you the joy of them.  The recital itself went off without a hitch.  They didn't cry and even danced a little.  I'll put the link to David Morris' YouTube video post.  Let me impart my favorite aspect of the recital.  Perhaps it was the 4-5 year olds who danced to "All the Single Ladies"  nothing more approriate than twelve 5 year old girls dancing to "If you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it"  while wearing flapper dresses.  Although it was the lady chipmunks singing so that makes it ok (and annoying, since, admittedly  Mr. West was correct in his assessment of that song).  Our lady girls danced to an elongated version of the theme song to Scooby Doo.  Yeah, you heard me.   

Since this is prehaircut, I suppose I'll have to be of some help in recognizing.  (First 5 are Tilly and then Ellie is on the right in the two that have both.  Elinor is the last three.)  Here is a link to last year's recital.  It has a picture that is almost exactly like the first one, but last year's is Ellie.  identical? http://www.tiggmorristwins.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html

scroll down to the red, white, black dance pics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bklALDD21Dk&feature=youtu.be

the video

PS scroll down for a great entry about Little Abbner and me, your humble servant.

Tilly

Look, the new design allows me to write captions.  this will make telling who's who a snap!

James and Abby: The Awesome Show!

Please to enjoy our awesomeness!  This is Abby standing in front of her newly fixed window!  She took it apart, replaced the motor and put every single part back where it started in less than 2 hours and she did it... all by herself! (I helped a little and obviously Ellie was helping, too).  And then the video is some cool science.  Apparently it is the oils in our skin that pop bubbles, so put a glove on and bounce to that!  peace friends. 

David Bowie from Labyrinth anyone?

One of these things is not like the other...

Say Hey Blogtrotters,

 So sorry it has been a while, but I'm sure you're going to love this one!  Hair cut day!  Abby's secret plan was to have the girls get hair cuts of different lengths, thus making everyone's job a little easier.  Both ladies thought this idea was awful, luckily Elinor threw a fit and refused to get a hair cut so Abby's plan comes to fruition.  So forget pink and yellow, pigtails or plain,  and look to the hair.

In the next few shots Tilly and Ellie are taking turns (they are the best turn takers of any 3-4 year-olds we know!) jumping off the couch.  Stop, don't worry Theresa and Diana (and any other mothers reading this) there were wearing their "safety helmets".  Take that danger!  Finally we come to what the girls title "Cool Guy Poses", really you have the 2 examples of the only times they WANT their pictures taken:  1) when they are doing something dangerous and 2) Cool Guy Poses.

Sometimes Abby and I talk about what will happen if they both inherit all of our bad qualities.   

Smoke Rings

Say Hey Blogtrotters,

Here's me shooting smoke rings from my super deluxe air cannon. The smoke balls only last for about 30 seconds so I need to invest in some that cost more than the shipping. Anyway, enjoy and be amazed my my awesomeness! Oh, and please see the post from yesterday for pictures of the girls.

Lil' Sebastian

Ahoy, Ahoy, Blogtrotters,

The lil' family went to Dallas Heritage Park today. It's your basic ol'timey pioneer village in the downtown area of major metropolitan city. It was extremely boring. "It's the least amount of fun anyone can have that doesn't involve baseball!" Said Abby Morris. Well, the girls just loved it. We spent about 4 hours there and they almost cried when we had to leave (because it had closed 20 minutes earlier). Abby promised them that we could come back for storytime (which includes singing, a craft and a pioneer story) too bad storytime is during the day while I'm at work. stupid summer vacation! So seriously it was horrendously boring, but it was an absolutely beautiful day and they had silkworms, so really it was a win-win. Oh, and they started shearing the sheep at 1:00 and we watch almost the entire time and it was getting close to being almost close to almost being close to being done when the pioneer ladies kicked us out. Poor, long suffering Mabel.

Tilly in yellow and Ellie in pink. Ha. tricked you! Ellie in yellow and Tills in pink. The umbrella shot was their reaction to the sheep's "hair cut".

Abby's got a job if this library thing doesn't work out. They're up to 4 part time staff members so I bet the pay is pretty good. "They had asparagus!" was her reason for being so enthralled.

Here, 2 poor teenage children of a pioneer lady are forced to clean the wool. Ellie jumped right in and helped, but Tilly didn't want to touch the poop water for some reason, so she just played with Ellie's hair and told the 2 teenagers about how pretty her nails are. They weren't as impressed as you'd expect them to be by rainbow colored nails. Luckily for them Ellie was there to splash water all over their pioneer clothes. The girls really did love it.

In this one Ellie was concerned about splinters. Earlier in the day she pretended to wash all of our hands by rubbing them with a stick, I personally got 3 splinters from the "cleaning".