Family photo

I found the timer button on my camera today. Fantastic! I had to take a family photo because I'm featured mom in the new MOMS club newsletter for this month. Yeah, I'm sure it's not as fancy as it sounds :o) Realized we hadn't had one of these since Christmas! It was about time for an update!

Here we are!

Zoo day

Yesterday we made a short trip to the zoo before the rain came (again!). We didn't see many animals, but spent some time playing in the water on Monkey Hill.

First we took a short stop to see the turtles and the birds.


Then on to Monkey Hill for splashing. And more splashing. And climbing. And then practically laying herself in the water. She was soaked when we were done! But I think she had fun. And luckily I was prepared with more clothes.

After that we walked to see the giraffes, but Scarlett wasn't feeling it anymore, so we went to plan B and sat down with a snowball. Here she is post bubblegum snowball. Yep, I bought one the same color as her shirt. That's the old college degree kicking in there :o)
P.S. It was HOT. And humid. But I'm sure you can tell that by this girl's hair!

We're Fancy

We got our new fancy TV set up this weekend. It's really awesome! Here is Scarlett modeling it for us

To celebrate our fanciness, Scarlett got dressed up today

Baby Burrito

Scarlett has recently become obsessed with blankets and being wrapped up, snuggled up, covered up. This is kind of crazy to me for 2 reasons. She has never been a blanket baby. Never one for being swaddled, or even covered up in bed. And 2 - it's July. and it's New Orleans. Hello? HOT! But she's super cute none the less :o)

Spa day!

Today was spa day for the Bayou Mamas. We headed up to Slidell to see Julie (a member AND licensed massage therapist!) who gave us a foot scrub, facial and mini massage. It was really nice and relaxing - even though we did have 6 kids running around! Scarlett and Lizzie decided to get in on the foot soak action too!

A very good weekend!

We've had a really nice weekend so far! Yesterday we had a relaxing morning, then we headed off to Parker's 5th birthday party. He had a pool party / cook out. Scarlett, true to Scarlett form, played in the pool for a good 15 minutes, then was DONE. She did a little swimming, a few bubbles, little bit of sidewalk chalk, then we retired to the indoors for some yummy food (not such a bad idea by that girl...it was HOT!).

Kids in the pools - and Scarlett soaking poor Stephanie!

Here's the birthday boy opening Scarlett's present. We got him some sort of lego race car sets or something. I don't really know boy, but he seemed to like them! Check out the "wrapping paper" I sewed. It was an eco-friendly party, so they had requested reusable or recycled wrapping. Can't really tell from the picture, but I did sew his initials on it!
After the party we headed to Best Buy so Cameron could pick out a stand for his NEW TV!! We are very excited. I don't know many of the details that boys know...but it's 52 inches and flat. Cameron's parents got it for him as his birthday / yay for boards present. We brought the stand home yesterday and the TV should be here on Friday! On an almost equally exciting note, we got Mulan for Scarlett. I'm excited to see it since we have so many Mulan dolls, books, etc as a part of our princess collection here, and I've never seen the movie. Looking forward to watching it later today!

That's all from here...hope everyone had a great weekend too!!

Smarty!

We found out yesterday that Cameron passed Step 1 of the medical boards. Well, I should say more than just "passed" - he did really really well! He even surpassed the insanely high "goal" he set for himself. Guess that Harvard education was worth it :)