Remember the Alamo

Last week we took our first long road trip to San Antonio. I was a little leary, seeing as how Lincoln doesn't like riding in the car for 20 minutes, let alone 4 1/2 hours at a time. But with the upcoming baby, we had no flying options so we had to pick somewhere close.

Amazingly enough, he did pretty good on each leg of the trip. We did get stuck in some Saturday afternoon traffic going through downtown Austin. Here is Ryan paying homage to the Longhorns at UT (their stadium is in the background).

We met my sister and her family down there on Saturday and ventured out to Sea World on Sunday. The weather was perfect and the Spring Break crowd had all gone home. We had good seats at all the shows and no lines for any of the rides. Here is Lincoln waiting to get onto a kiddie ride.

This was handprint art that he made. I thought it was very cute but it got wrinkled on the ride home.

The sea lion show had to have been one of the best parts because they had them out there like actors. Not sure if you can tell but the walrus is doing sit-ups (who knew you could train a walrus to exercise).

My one pregnancy craving (for both of them) is frozen lemonade which, believe it or not, is very hard to find unless you are at a fair. Well, they had them and let me tell you they were delicious!

We were lucky enough to get to catch a short Sesame Street Live show on their last day there.

Here is Shamu and his buddies, very sad that their fins are droopy. Hasn't anyone seen Free Willy.

This is what happens when you keep a 2-year-old awake until 4:00. He missed the dolphin and beluga show. He didn't miss out on much, it was more of a Cirque de Soleil meets Sea World, very strange and not a lot of dolphin tricks.

The dolphin pool was one of my favorite parts. I, however, had difficulty getting close due to my belly. Oh well, I guess I can touch one next time. Lincoln's tears were from grumpiness not scarediness.

If anyone goes to San Antonio, you should definitely take your kids to the Children's Museum which is only a few blocks from the Alamo. Lincoln (and Ryan) had tons of fun. Older kids would have gotten a more educational experience but it was still fun.

Building a log cabin with his dad. Ryan wanted to give up, he said it was too hard.

They even had a real front loader that you could sit and scoop up and dump out rocks.

This was hard to get a picture of because he kept wanting to pop the bubble. This was so neat that we all had to do it.

They had a giant sized pin cushion, we took some whole body impressions. I will spare you my shot, I didn't realize that certain things had gotten so big.

Lincoln as an old west store clerk.

Here he is driving a trolley.

The whole downstairs was a fully working grocery store where the kids could shop and then have someone check them out. I think this was Ryan's favorite part.

Wow, David Robinson is very, very tall.

Here is Lincoln in front of the infamous Alamo. He went up and down the street shouting "Remember the Alamo", it was pretty funny.

We went on a riverboat tour. He wasn't too impressed with the scenery and architecture but we enjoyed it.

Yes, we think it's funny to torture our child. This was at Rainforest Cafe. The animals come alive every 10 minutes and make noise. Let's just say this was the calmest restaurant experience we had all week because he refused to get out of his seat.

There is a great park right in the middle of Market Square that has a great playground. It's so cool because it's right in the middle of the downtown area. Here I am in all my pregnancy glory.

We found a very neat, authentic Mexican restaurant in Market Square that is open 24 hours called Mi Tiera. I would definitely recommend it. They have a great bakery if you just wanted to stop in for coffee and pastries. Here is Ryan enjoying some coffee.

Here is Lincoln enjoying some mexican hot chocolate. I'm not sure what makes it mexican hot chocolate but it is EXCELLENT!

And here is the Huevos Rancheros that I enjoyed.

So that pretty much sums up our San Antonio adventure. We did stop in Allen, TX on our way home to stay the night and do some outlet shopping. It rained pretty much the whole way back from Texas until we reached Atoka. It's hard to believe that the end of our vacation week ended with 7 inches of snow. I will save that for another post!

The Circus and Underwear

So, weekly blogging has escaped me. I say that I will try harder but I feel that it can really only get worse from here. As my 2 boys continue to grow (one making me more uncomfortable), my emotional, pregnant self almost gets teary thinking about how not so little Lincoln is getting. Here is our most recent picture of baby boy #2 (no, we have not yet decided on a name or to continue on the presidential theme). We are now almost a week into the 3rd trimester which means impending labor is near (I am mentally preparing myself). His profile shot is starting to look more and more like Lincoln's ultrasounds. I can't wait to see how this little guy is going to look.


We got to go to the Akdar Shrine Circus a few weeks back in the freezing cold temperatures. Lincoln had a good time. He had his face painted with a red and white OU. Why the lady felt that he needed glitter on it, I'm not so sure. But, I wasn't about to stop the eighty-year-old lady who was more than likely volunteering her time from glittering up my boy. Here you can see his face tat along with the glow sword that he kept wacking the girls in front of us with. It's a good thing they thought he was so cute because he was very much annoying them with his feet and sword.


We took my niece, Skylar, with us and they had a good time sharing popcorn, a seat, and light up toys.


Lincoln's newest infatuation is wearing socks on his hands as gloves.


As you can see, they provide for the utmost dexterity when working puzzles.


So, I've been keeping up with other friend's blogs and enviously reading about how their kids are potty training and wearing underwear. Lincoln has no interest whatsoever in really going on the potty. I found some Thomas underwear at Target (which I have within 3 miles of my house now, yeah!) that I thought might peak his interest. He immediately wanted to put them on. Maybe the problem is we've never showed him what you do with undies as you can see below.


We finally got him redirected and he was getting the idea of how to get them on.

Here he is showing of his big boy underwears (as he calls them). I thought to myself that this might be the key. We explained to him that he didn't want to pee-pee on Thomas. He shook his head in agreement and said "no pee on Thomas". Well, what's the next thing that he did, he looked down, strained a little, shivered, and said proudly, "I pee on Thomas" and laughed. Oh well, what do you do.

That is our current world in a nutshell. We will be leaving this Friday for San Antonio and we will both be taking a much needed week long break from our jobs. Hooray!