Spa Day

So, It's going to become a tradition that whenever I'm having a baby, I'm going to get a pedicure on my due date. I did it with Peyton, and today, my due date, Halli and I visited the spa. Thanks a bunch to Aunties Jamie and Jessica for a great gift of a pedicure I was able to relax and have some pampering done. Halli was able to join me for her first experience at a spa and she was pretty mesmerized by it. We didn't get to go at the same time, so as she was watching me get my pedicure she kept asking if everything hurt, I think she was a little afraid that it would. But after she was done and I asked if anything hurt, she said no, that it just tickled a little bit. It was alot of fun to have the chance to do this with my oldest little girl, and I have the feeling I'll be doing it fairly often considering the estrogen we're going to have in our home. They even did Halli's nails for free just cause the beautician thought she was such a cutie!:)

Here we are getting our Pedicures. She looks so cute sitting in that huge chair! I love the view Halli must always have of me, isn't it so attractive? and you should all feel lucky to get a close up of my swollen feet, they're just so pretty! at least they are somewhat prettier than they were this morning.

Water fun

Being in Houston, you can't go through the summer without numerous visits to the pool. At the beginning of this summer, Halli wouldn't enter the water without her floaties. But thanks to some help from her good friend Blake, she has braved the water and learned how to swim, kinda. She can get around as long as she doesn't have to go too far without having something to hang onto. Well, She has come a long way, as evidenced by these photos. Here is our new swimmer doing full flips into the pool, and she LOVES it! Grandma Jackson got these great photos of our little daredevil flying through the air. It's going to be a fun summer in the water....and we'll be there everyday if this baby won't come out, it's the only place I can get some relief!

Halli showing off her awesome moves!

Our other little waterbug, she takes awhile to actually get in the water, but once she does she realizes it's not so bad and she'll hang out and kick around.

NO BABY!!!!

Thats right, If you'll take a look to the right of my blog and see my baby counter, it says 0 days, well, unless a miracle happens today, ITS WRONG! I am no longer trying to be positive about being pregnant, I'm through, but apparently she isn't. I am tempted to try castor oil at this point, it's sitting on the counter in my kitchen, but I don't know if I dare do it. If you know of any sure fire ways to evict a child from your womb, without techinically being induced, please let me know. I know there really aren't any, but I'm willing try just about anything. The good thing is my mom showed up on wednesday, so I've had a little help with the girls and keeping them entertained, which was getting to be difficult. I'm very ready to meet this little girl, so wish me luck, who knows just how much longer I have.

PS - the baby in the picture on the countdown has WAY too much room. I know there isn't that much room in there for Lexie, You'd think she'd be uncomfortable with no space to move, but I guess not.

Pregnant Together

We have all resigned ourselves to the fact that Lexie just won't ever come out. So the girls decided it was fun to be pregnant and decided they would try it themselves, with their own baby dolls. I asked Halli if she could still touch her toes and she easily did it, lucky girl, I haven't been able to for months! Really, we don't want to see this sight for a long time, but I wish I looked as cute "pregnant" as they do! :)

Curiouser & Curiouser

I know most kids start asking "why" all the time around three years of age. Well, Halli never really did that, at least not to the point that it stood out to me. But here we are at almost 5, and this girl is so curious about some very odd topics.

Some of the odd things she has been wondering about as of late:

Where do the Angels live?
What do Angels look like?
Are Angels and Fairy's the same thing?
Where does the Tooth Fairy live?
What does Heaven look like? (then she said she already knew, cause she saw a picture at grandma's house, and that's what heaven looked like.)
How does Ariel breath under water?
Who will Sydney marry? (Sydney is Blakes cousin and Halli is afraid she'll try to marry Blake. That would be bad as far as Halli is concerned, cause she is going to marry Blake.)
Why does santa come down the chimney?
How do our bodies move?
There was a storm the other day and the lights kept flickering, so she asked How the power would go out, and why?


I have to say I'm getting better at explaining things. But every time she asks a question, I'm kinda taken aback and just how inquisitive she is. It's amazing to see those little minds at work trying to figure out the world around them.

Book of the day

In an effort to stave off summer boredom, which Halli already has, as she has told me more than once that we have a boring house, I'm starting a book of the day. I saw this on someone else's blog, they would read one book that day and then do a craft that went with the book. I thought that looked fun and fairly easy to do, so we started today and our first book was "Ten little ladybugs." Then we made our own ladybug hats with antenna. The girls both enjoyed this, and I think Peytons favorite part was the glue and then tearing her hat apart after we took pictures. Oh well, at least it kept them happy and occupied for a little while.

The girls showing off their hard work, they really did have fun, even though they don't look like it in the picture.

Halli reading the book to Peyton.

Peyton looking cute as always.

Reading together. Halli has always been a bookworm and reading is one of her favorite things to do. Peyton on the other hand is just starting to be interested in books. I have always loved to read as well and hope this is something the girls can learn to love and enjoy doing forever.

little things from the Williams household

I haven't posted much about the girls lately, but they are doing wonderfully so I thought I might add a little about whats been going on at our house the past week. Nothing out of the ordinary, and life has been pretty mellow, but the girls are so cute and I'm enjoying not running them around everywhere and being able to just hang out with them a little bit before life gets hectic with a new baby.

The other day I ran to the grocery store really quick while Kevin watched the girls, and when I got home, Peyton came running up to me happy as could be, and this is what I saw...

She loves to color on herself. Not so much on paper or on other objects, but she LOVES to color on her legs, hands and arms. This was the first time she'd used her face as the backdrop.

We were out riding bikes the other day and Halli's training wheel wasn't tight enough which caused her to fall a couple times before we figured out the problem. Well, Peyton must have thought that falling looked fun, cause she got off her tricycle, pushed it over, which is what she's doing in the above picture, and then she sits on the ground like she just fell. She never did fall off, just tried to make it look like she did. Where do they come up with these things?

While they were riding bikes, Kevin rode around on his scooter with them and he thought it would be funny to keep "running into" peyton, well, she didn't like it. This is a picture of her lecturing her Daddy for not giving her enough space. She is one demanding little girl.

And lastly, Here's a picture of the girls just having fun. Halli is loving being the boss most of the time and Peyton will follow her almost anywhere and she wants to do everything her big sis does. It is very cute to watch. In fact, check out my sister-in-laws blog, (eric & Jill, sorry I ahve no idea how to link things, guess I'll have to learn soon), She has a video posted of the girls swimming this weekend and Peyton is trying to do everything Halli does. It's so cute!

So not a whole lot happening, but thats the girls, they keep life fun and interesting, even when they're not doing too much. Gotta love 'em.