Houston Bday Gathering, Austin presents #2

Things operated a little differently this year birthday-wise, and we ended up having a late summer birthday gathering for the immediate family plus Rory and Grandma at Kim and David's. It was again super fun to watch Austin open presents. He was totally into it!

He first wanted to play with this decoration.

He probably would have chewed all day if we let him.

"Ok, enough chewing on this, it's time to open presents!"

"Rar!"

He did a pretty darn good job of tearing the paper off.

Unfortunately, immediately after this picture was taken, the box tipped and down he went. He got a bloody lip!

"Ooh, a gift card."

"I'm ready to go shopping. Who'll drive me!?"

Austin with his second 'haul.' (I realize the picture is a bit blurry, but it was too good not to post anyways.)

No one on this side of the family asked about gift preferences and he ended up with a lot more toys at this event, but still a good amount of books (some in duplicate!) and clothes. Still no experiences, though! ;-)

Funny videos #3

Another video of them playing with the big pink ball together. It was just too cute not to share! (Only about the first 20 seconds are worth watching.)

Funny videos #2

Here's a video of what happens when I get too close while taking a video. :-)

Funny videos, #1

Two things about this video:

1) You have to watch this for about 30 seconds to really see him do what I was taking the video for. He's gotten quite good at it, better than is captured here, but I just can't catch a better version on video! (See Funny videos #2)

2) You have to wait until the end to see what my days are like around here. Never a moment alone...

Georgia's Big Ball

I truly feel like Georgia Mae is our first child, and so when life gets crazy and she's been ignored, I will often try to make it up to her (going to the dog park in Dallas in July was one of the worst ideas I've had). I saw this ball at Target last week and had to get it for her. She loves playing with balls this size! ...until she pops it, which she always does.

I didn't realize when I bought it that it would be a toy that they could play with together! He will watch her chase it around nearly all day long. I got too many cute videos to share with you, but did want to post this one, the best one. And I love how gentle she becomes when he gets too close. Her look to me at the end of the video is saying "Mom, could you get him away from this? That's my ball." Almost like she's tattling on him!