Summer is officially here!

 

For our little family, the "official" beginning of summer is usually marked by Memorial Day weekend due to the fun summer festivities and of course, the pool!!! Last weekend was great and a wonderful way to kick off the summer.

We started by going to play over at Hudson's house and to see his new birthday toys! Pierson was not feeling the swimming that morning for some reason. She was very clingy and just did not have a good morning.

We thought bringing them inside to play might help so in our attempts to change them from their wet clothes, they took off to play with Hudson's new truck. Pierson has become obsessed with these cars/trucks. Anywhere we go that has one, that is all that she wanted to play with, opening and closing the door. So, we finally broke down....

and now she has her very own! She LOVES this car! Each morning since we have gotten it, as soon as she comes out from her room each morning, she points to it and starts saying "car, car, car" over and over. It really is so cute watching her climb in and out, honk the horn and then do her little dance when the music comes on. We were blessed with a short visit from Pop when he was passing through town.

The rest of last weekend and this weekend have been filled with trips to the pool.

She is truly a little water baby! She is in heaven every time we go.

She has become quite the little dare devil too! She will get up on the side and run right into the pool (with me or Ryan in there of course).

Having so much fun with dad!!

Playing with her friend, Jack Sibley, in the baby pool. That's where all the good pool toys are :)

Pierson enjoyed scooping up water and pouring it back out.

Little ham :)

Such a big girl in the big pool!!!!

Although there is not much "laying out" by the pool these days, trips to the pool are an absolute blast with Pierson. Not to mention, a great way to beat the Texas summer heat!

One last thing for this post.... Pierson has recently found that she loves to dip her food in things. Anytime she sees me or Ryan dip something that we are eating, she wants to do it too. No matter what it is. So since she has been going on a little veggie strike lately, I though I would see if she would eat them as long as she could dip them in something. This is what happened...

I gave her a small bowl of ranch to dip her green beans in and she did great for the first few bites, but then figured out that the ranch tasted way better without that green bean stuff in the way. She picked up the bowl and started shoveling the ranch in her mouth!!! That little plan of mine definitely backfired, but it was soooo funny. I won't lie, I love ranch dressing and would probably eat it all the time if it weren't for those dang calories. Nothing that Pierson will have to worry about for a while, a very long while if she keeps having her daddy's metabolism :) Guess I will have think of something else to get her to start eating her veggies again!