One day last week...

The girls & I spent the morning outside...it was actually kinda nice, I believe it was 95. It's been so incredibly hot, as in 100+ degree weather for 41 days straight, so we loved having a (small) break in the heat to spend it outside!

I loaded up Finley's paint tote basket, grabbed a blank canvas, and several paint brushes and let her just go to town!!

She loves to paint and I love any chance to foster her creativity!

Very Serious!



Rowynn checking out big sister's art!

Her artwork proudly hanging in our dining room.

Sure do love those sweet girls!!!

Big Girl Bed

Well, the time has come. For better or worse, Finley is in a big girl bed!!!

We knew that as part of the girls' Christmas present this year we were planning on moving them into one room (formerly Fin's room) and some of their presents would include decor and bedding. The more we thought about it (and the more Finley tried to climb out of her crib) we decided to go ahead and at least move Finley to a big girl bed. My parents wanted to buy Finley's bedding and gifted it to us early yesterday! We kept the crib in there and will move Rowynn in there when Finley gets settled/adjusted.

View from the door



Looking away from the beds



Waiting for little sister!

I love how everything turned out! We saw the bed at IKEA a few weeks ago, and I've been searching like mad on craigslist. Well, today I found one for 1/4 of the cost! I was so excited! So we loaded it up and went to work. We moved the room around, brought back the rocking chair, and bumper pad and rearranged things.

I saw this print featured in another blog and fell in love! I bought it a few months ago and just got it hung! I love, love, love it! I want to get the matching pillows! This is where I got it: http://sarahandabraham.com/
I still want to get a small rug, baby gate, and I have a multi-picture frame that needs to be updated and hung. But I am very happy with how it all turned out.

All ready for bed!

Night-Night Finley Rose! I love you something fierce! You're one cool kiddo :)

My Fearless Wonder!

Yesterday we met my parents in Tyler to spend the day with them! From time to time we'll meet in Tyler since it's about half-way for all of us. Kyle & I use to meet in Tyler and spend the day at the zoo or mall when we were dating. It's a nice because it's a fairly small town, but it's big enough that there is plenty to do!

This is how we rode to Tyler:

I've been looking for a doll stroller and found this one last week at Once Upon a Child for $4 and Finley L-O-V-E-S it!!

We met at Cracker Barrel and had a oh so yummy, not-exactly-weight watcher friendly lunch and then headed to the mall!

I don't know how I'm going to handle a them when their 16 & 17 and really driving!!

Finley loved Papaw's dippin' dots!

AND THEN MY FEARLESS WONDER DID THIS:

We saw it as we were leaving and I said, "Hhhhhmmm, I wonder if Finley would do that?" She loves to jump on Mimi & Papaw's trampoline and she's pretty fearless, so we asked the lady if we could just see if she would even like it before we shelled out the $7. Did she like it? Um, yea!!! She didn't want to get off and kept saying, "I jump, I jump!!!" She wanted to go higher and higher and had a big grin on her face the entire time!

Kyle said to not be surprised if she wants to go bungee jumping when she's a teenager...she's so fearless!!!

Buggy Business

Last month things got a little buggy around our home! In the few weeks leading up to Finley's Buggy Birthday, (and the few weeks after), we had fun learning about, making, and observing different bugs. My friend Maile and I split the cost of some lady bugs and Finley liked watching them fly around her little bug house. We also observed caterpillars form chrysalises and emerge butterflies. Finley kept a little butterfly journal--she'd draw what she saw and then I'd write her observations down.

We had so much fun with our buggy-theme! 

I found this on another blog. I cut out the dots and Finley had fun counting them and putting them on the ladybug.

Busy Bugs is a fantastic Discovery Toys present from Mailie! She did really good at matching the bugs to the right colors.

I gave her the "B" letter stamp and she had fun stamping away!

Finley loves stickers! She loved her buggy sticker garden. She would point to each of them and say the names of the ones she knew.

The ladybug she painted.

Dot paint ladybugs.

I got this idea from Maile. These are Rowynn's feet, they made adorable butterflies! Finley did some too and she would always point at the back wall and say, "RoRo's seet (feet), Fin's seet!"

This was quick and easy. Finley put dabs of paint in the middle of a piece of paper and then we folded it in half and swooshed it around. Voila! Butterfly :)

This is our bee-hive. She used bubble wrap, dipped in yellow paint, to paint the bee hive on cardstock. And the bumble bees are thumb prints!

I love these flower hands!

Dot painting on the ladybugs Maile made for us!

Dot painting on the ladybugs Maile made for us!

Counting ladybugs!

Marble painting made a wonderful spider-web!

Water Fun!

Yesterday Kyle took the day off and we took the girls to a small, local water park. They had a blast!!! It was so much fun watching my little water babies splash around!

She was cupping her hands around her mouth saying, "Heyyyooo!" (Hello) She liked the echo sound

Rowynn trying to grab the water!

After the water park we went to IKEA and Finley had a blast! She kept crawling in all of the beds like Goldilocks and kept saying, "Okay, pa-pa (paci) time!"

It was a good day!

Tinkerbell

My little Finley is OBSESSED with Tinkerbell, or as she says, "Kink." She has fallen in love with the movies and laughs and squeals when she gets to watch one. On her first Christmas, when she was 6 months old, we got her a plush Tinkerbell from the Disney store, along with a Tinkerbell plate, bowl, utensil set, cup, and of course movie. She only recently started watching the movies, on the long ride to Louisiana thanks to the portable dvd players Mimi & Papaw got her for Christmas.

Watching Tinkerbell while on the road to Louisiana

Now she watches the movie as a treat on some evenings. We've also rented Tinkerbell & The Lost Treasure and Tinkerbell & The Great Fairy Rescue...and she loves them! It's so neat to watch her laugh at the parts she thinks are funny and she loves to fly her "Kinks" around the room and say, "fly Kink, fly!"

For her birthday she recieved a couple of Tinkerbell dolls and nightgowns. And Mimi has assured me that she'll get the other two movies for Chirstmas! I love watching her grow and seeing the things she falls in love with! And thank goodness it's not something annoying...I actually really like Tinkerbell too!

She wanted to take a picture of her "Kinks!"

I sure do love having girls!!!

June 5, 2011

On Sunday, June 5, 2011, Finley Rose Davis turned 2!!! I can't believe that my sweet girl is two! Time is going by way too fast. I feel so blessed to be the momma to such an amazing girl. She is so thoughtful and amazes me with her love for others, kindness, helpfulness, and zeal. She is such a joy and I can't believe that I get to spend my days with her and her little sister. I sure do love my girls!

So on Sunday, to celebrate her big day we had the most marvelous lunch cooked by my grandma, grandpa, Kyle and me. We had roasted chicken with rosemary potatoes, fried okra, squash, cornbread, green beans, fresh sliced cucumbers and tomatoes, corn on the cob, and momma's sweet tea. And all of the veggies were from my grandpa's family farm. They.were.so.yummy.

After lunch my parents, sister, brother-in-law, and grandparents, along with my little family, took a train ride into the West End, near downtown Dallas. The train station is about 5 minutes from our house and the train ride took about 20 minutes. It was super cheap and super fun. Finley absolutely LOVED it! She had so much fun.

Here we are waiting for the train!

Here it comes!!

Dada & Rowynn Faith

Riding on the train!

Papaw & Finley. She loved looking out of the window!

My wonderful grandparents!

Mimi & Papaw with sweet RoRo!

My big 2 year old!!

Once we got to our stop we headed for a little shop that sold candy, ice cream, and coke floats. Perfect for this Texas heat!

Finley loved her "pink ice ceam!"

Once we got home my family had to leave...sad...Finley did not like everyone leaving. But she was okay once we got in the pool! After a nice, cooling swim. We released her butterflies!

"Bye-Bye Boo-flies!"

After she said goodbye we loaded up the crew and headed to Fuzzy's Taco Shop..yum-yum! We then came home and let Finley watch her favorite movie, Tinkerbell.

It was such a fun day celebrating Finley Rose!!

Sweet girl,

I love you so stinkin' much! More than you'll ever know. I am so glad God choose me to be your momma!!