It's hard to tell but what you are looking at in these pictures is rain. A good steady rain that lasted about 2 minutes if I round up. You know what that means.... Even more hot and humid now that it has stopped. Chris says I am a rain pessimist. But what I am is a rain realist. Try working outside in a Dallas summer year after year with plants dying of thirst, ground cracking, skin burning, begging for some rain and never getting it. You would be pessimistic too. But that's my Texas and I love her anyway- droughts, heat, humidity and all.
Monday, June 28, 2010
What Now?
Well folks, my camera is dead. It won't take a single picture. I actually hope it will stay dead when I take it to get fixed this time so they don't think I'm crazy. Then I get home and it doesn't work again. I swear it's taunting me. Chris and I went to Loveland, Colorado for a friend's wedding this weekend but I don't have any pictures to prove it. We also hiked Bear Lake in the Rocky Mountain National Park but, again, no pictures. Chris did take a couple with his phone of me looking very fat so I won't be uploading those onto the blog. Until I get my camera fixed for good I probably won't be posting much. Until then.....
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Blooming Today at SMU
Silphium.
'Lord Baltimore' Hibiscus is a good perennial hibiscus for our area.
Lamb's ear.
Blackeyed Susans.
Althea.
Caesalpinia pulcherrima or Pride of Barbados.
Pride of Barbados.
Daylilies.
Scaevola or Blue Fan Flower.
Silphium.
Silphium.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Weekend Update
The camera is working again. Chris took it to Cooters last Friday. They messed around with the settings, said they couldn't find anything wrong with it, charged us nothing, and now it works. I love a free repair! So back to taking thousands of Edie pictures that all look a lot alike. Edie is crawling, pulling up, trying to stand up from a crawl position, eating yogurt, cottage cheese, and much of what we are eating cut into tiny pieces. She begs at our plates like a hungry dog. Since we eat on the floor it is easy for her to quickly get a hand into our plate of food.
We took Edie to our local Knights of Columbus pool on Saturday evening. I loved it! Chris though isn't sold yet because it requires that you pay annually. He would rather travel the city going from free pool to free pool forever. We need to get on the waiting list which is supposed to be about 2 years long. I spent every summer day of my childhood at the original KofC pool and I want Edie and Peanut to do the same. Plus once they can be in the pool by themselves, the parents just sit on the side and hang out. And now they serve margaritas!









We took Edie to our local Knights of Columbus pool on Saturday evening. I loved it! Chris though isn't sold yet because it requires that you pay annually. He would rather travel the city going from free pool to free pool forever. We need to get on the waiting list which is supposed to be about 2 years long. I spent every summer day of my childhood at the original KofC pool and I want Edie and Peanut to do the same. Plus once they can be in the pool by themselves, the parents just sit on the side and hang out. And now they serve margaritas!
This is Edie's squat that she has learned to lower herself from a standing position to a seated position. Before she would just fall over when she was ready to sit back down.
Like one of our cats she is immediately attracted to packing materials.
Helping me cook.
We now own a baby trailer for our bikes. We took Edie out Friday evening. She didn't seem too impressed but we enjoyed it.
Edie ate her first mashed potatoes last night.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Poor Edie
She really does look like a little boy sometimes but she acts like a tornado/bull/diva/sweetheart/curious George. Chris and I think she would make a wonderful child monarch. She would have no problem telling all the adults around her what to do or sentencing people to death.
Swimming Frog
Edie loves, loves, loves the water. We try to take her swimming as much as possible. We alternate between our friend Jeremiah's apartment pool at the Village and Nancy and Steve's home pool. Every Tuesday evening she goes to her tadpole swim class. She has learned not to stick her legs straight up in the air when she is floating on her back. She can grab the side of the pool and we hope she'll learn to stop drinking the pool water soon.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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