Adventures with the Cox Clan (& Friends)

Camille had told me about all the fun stuff to do in her "backyard," so last weekend we invited ourselves over to play. And it was a lot of FUN!! The hiking was much-needed & the sandpits were huge. The stream was perfect for cooling off on a hot day-and it was hot.

I was very impressed with the hiking skills of all my girls (icluding my Zetta-girl), although Lizzy got a bit distracted when I let her "loose.":):)

We definitly want to come back to play!!

I Spy...

Can you "spy" all 3 of the Payne babies?

Answer Key:
Faye: Faye is my "front & center" girl, who loves attention, loves to talk, and loves to eat her vitamin every day (that's the bottle in her hands).
Daisy: If you look on the floor behind the couch, there is a small mound of wet hair poking out of towel. This is a Daisy girl who was too tired to get dressed & didn't quite make it into the kitchen to ask me for assistance.
Elizabeth: Lizzy is in her second home (aka: Highchair). She spends about 50% of each day in it. Her rates would be higher if I would just keep it "stocked" well enough. Ha, ha, just kidding. But she does love food, and she does love her highchair.

A "Quick" Family Photo

Brian asked if we could take a "quick" family picture that he could send to an old friend. So he set up a tripod (3 chairs stacked up:), and we gathered. It took 3 sessesions, over a period of 2 1/2 hours, and we had well over 50 attempts with the self-timer. Not even one of them turned out normal!! But they are funny...

This is one of the last photos. Lizzy thoroughly informed us that she no longer wanted her photograph taken. The bribery candy was still working a little bit for Faye & Daisy:).

Matching Girls

Faye loves to pick out clothes for her sisters, as well as herself. She will often times ask me if they can "be matchies." It is fun having girls to dress up & do their hair (most of the time:). Brian & I will joke that I do their hair more than I do my own hair.

What's even better than getting my girls dolled up, is that they will actually pose for the camera once they reach a certain age. Lizzie is not that certain age, yet.

Faye & Daisy were more than willing to cooperate.

"Miss Independant," as nicknamed by Great Grandma Payne, would not cooperate. She even pulled one of her little buns out, and was happy about it, too. She's still cute with half wild hair.

Water Babies

Galveston gives us many opportunites to get wet (good & bad:). I pulled out the froggy pool 2 days ago, and it has already provided my girls hours of fun. They just love being wet!

At one point, Daisy was just sitting there in Lizzie's floatie. I didn't know a child could hold still so long without being asleep.

Lizzie is terrified of floaties, or any swimming toy that we own (that's why she doesn't mind Daisy borrowing her float-ring:). Faye, being the loving older sister, wanted Lizzie to have water, so she filled up this pitcher with her frog-water & gave it to Lizzie to play in.

Lizzie making funny faces at me through the glass door.:) Notice the nice, clean, streak-free glass?