Morning at Brushy Creek Park

This morning, we woke up early and took Presley out for a walk along the trail at Brushy Creek Park. At 7:30am, Blaine and I loaded Pres in her jogging stroller and started out on the trail (along with our obligatory cups of very strong coffee). It was absolutely beautiful outside! It would probably reach 100 degrees later in the day, but that early in the morning, it was perfect. We've lived in this area of town for 8 years, and this is the first time we have ever walked this trail together. I can't believe it took us so long for us to do this, but we will definitely start doing this more often.

We were only out there for about 30 minutes, so there is still so much more for us to see. We walked mostly along the "lake" and took some super cute pictures of Presley. She loved being outside and did so well posing for all her pictures.


We found a cute little area that had a bunch of water fountains for kids to play in. This will be perfect in the summer when it's 1oo degrees before 10:00am. I just need to remember to bring Presley's swimsuit with us next time.

After we were done we drove to Waterloo and Presley got her new favorite breakfast: blueberry pancakes and bananas! This was such a great way to start our day together!

Little Swimmer

We've started taking Presley to our neighborhood pool over the past few weeks. She didn't really know what to think about it the first couple of times, but I think she's getting used to it now. She loves to splash in the water and hold on to the side of the pool on her tiptoes. It's so much fun to play with her in the water. And of course she looks so dang cute in her little swimsuit, hat, and sunglasses. Poor baby is covered head to toe in layer upon layer of sunscreen. But even ghostly white from all the sunblock, she's still the cutest thing I have ever seen!
One of the pools in our neighborhood has a little rock ledge with water spilling over from another pool. She loves this area the best and would stay there the whole time if we let her. She has a little floaty that she has a love/hate relationship with at the moment. She loves it for about 5 minutes, and hates it the rest of the time we're at the pool. Hopefully if we keep going to the pool every week, she'll start to like it a bit more. It's just so nice to do all these fun new activities with her...I LOVE it!!!

Pancake Saturday!

This Saturday, we thought we would try something new and let Presley feed herself some pancake with syrup. This was the first time she had ever had pancakes or attempted to feed herself. Wow!!! She loved it! We stripped her down to just her diaper and a bib, and I'm so glad we did because boy was this messy! Not sure if she liked the pancake or the super sticky sweet syrup smeared all over her hands and face, but she was having a blast. Anyone who knows me well knows that I like everything to be super cleaned and organized. Well, that all went out the window this morning, but I was having too much fun watching her to notice (okay, that's a lie, I totally noticed...but I managed to hold back, fight the urge to wipe her face after every bite, and just let her have fun). She did so well eating the pancakes all by herself. I was standing right by her, completely sure that I would have to perform the Heimlich maneuver at any moment. But, she chewed (or gummed) each bite perfectly. We were so proud of our big pancake eating girl!


Of course, right after that, my OCD kicked in and I had to give her a bath to wash all the stickiness away. But she he loved that too! Every kid needs a picture of themselves getting a sink bath...we all have one!

What a little cutie pie!