Snakes, spaceships, skating etc

Excuses, excuses - but we really have been busy! Auggie wrote a paper and gave a speech at the Texas Water Superconference and I organized a large offsite meeting at work so our time has been zapped.  There has been plenty to fill you (all two of you who read this) in on too.  So I will do my best!  We've had a visit from Ma and Pa (back in August!) which was very lovely. Evie wanted to make Pa a birthday cake so we worked some dairy free magic and make a double chocolate layer cake. It was rather nice if I do say so myself.  Grandma came to stay a few weeks back and to continue the baking theme, we made rhubarb and cherry crumble with custard. also yum.  And if you read the previous post regarding pregnancy weight gain, this series of events may explain the answer to question 1 . . .

 

So here's what you really care about:

 

 

 

 Evie  being cute. She wanted a photo snuggling with Daddy.

 Evie being a classy bird. Nana just happened to have this hat in the back of her car!

 Auggie had a meeting in Galveston this past weekend held at the Moody Gardens Hotel.  So Evie and I decided to go along for the ride and spent the night at the hotel and the day at Moody Gardens.  First of all, Pie and I got room service Friday night which she thought was quite the thing. I had to explain that we couldn't be doing that EVERY time we stayed at a hotel.  I am fairly sure she doesn't believe me. The next day was a lot of fun too. Evie liked the pink birds in the rainforest pyramid.  Luckily we avoided getting pooed on. Some of our fellow attendees were not so fortunate.

The discovery pyramid is currently home to a music exhibit.  There were TONS of fun things for kids to play with. This was one of her favorites. Billy Joel/Elton John eat your heart out!

On Labor Day we went to NASA and as you would expect at a Space Center, there were snakes to play with.  Evie liked these rather a lot. That bad-boy they are holding weighed in at 80 pounds.   There were also lots of other fun things to do including landing a space shuttle and going to look at rockets. I think Evie left with lots of good memories but a small, albeit serious, regret that we didn't actually get to go into space.

 

While Ma and Pa were here we took Evie ice skating. And by "we" I mean Auggie took Evie skating while the rest off us watched from the bleachers. Evie enjoyed this rather a lot so we have signed her up to start lessons in November.  Assuming she is willing to cooperate (and let's be honest, this is Evie so you never know), she will make her ice debut in the "Nutcracker" this December as a Gingerbread Girl.  I will have the video camera at the ready!

 

 



 And last but in no way least, here is our alien baby.  He would not cooperate at ALL for photos at our scan last week so I am putting this one up despite it looking less than human.  The good news is that all of his measurements are normal and so far he is measuring as he should. Good boy.


Enjoy the pictures! I will try not to leave it so long next time

Jane xxx