Go Wildcats and other things!

The other day Ashley was playing by herself - which she has finally started to do...and I heard her talking to her baby - She loaded up the baby in her stroller and proceeded to bend down to it's level and say in a sweet little two year old voice, "Baby want to go to zoo?, OK" got back up took the stroller by the handles and wheeled the baby across the room to her little table...I watched her for a little while, curious as to what she was up to, as she was busy going back and forth across the room - finding animals and placing them at the zoo {under the chairs of the table}.

It was just so cute to see her use her imagination in this way - we'd never done this before - she thought it up all on her own. I snapped this pic in the early stages of the zoo creation and then went back to cleaning up the kitchen...
This is the final result of her zoo - she even fed all the animals...what a superb little zoo keeper she is ;) She is so sweet and makes me smile each and every day!
Ashley has been asking for a big girl bed for a few months now...but mommy has been scared...this girl is one WILD sleeper, thumping around doing flips all night long...so I've been hesitant...well, she is persistant and finally won out the other night....so we put her mattress on the floor to test it out...see what it'd be like with no boundaries to keep this wild thang in bed....I heard a thud...went upstairs and found her like this....went back downstairs for the camera - I know...a normal pre-blogging days mom probably would have immediately scooped up their fallen child...but nope, not me....I thought BLOG WORTHY? YES! I did put her back on the mattress after the picture though :) where apparently she stayed the rest of the night {shocker} - the next night she stayed at Nana and Pops house and then the following night she requested to sleep in her crib again...so who knows - we'll just stay in the crib till she asks for a big girl bed again...

So this weekend marked Eric & I's high school reunion {yes, we went to the same high school --- along with 1480 other people who also graduated with us --- and no, we did not know each other --- we met after we graduated}

Here is a pic of Ash at the reunion picnic we went to earlier in the day - where Ash got to meet the Plano Wildcat - she wasn't too sure about him...we assume that is because even at this young age she already knows to despise the Wildcat - as you see she will go to the Wildcat's rival high school and be a Wolf when she gets older...

So the reunion itself....It was fun - I knew no one - Eric knew everyone - seriously I thought I had friends in high school...where did they all go? Not quite sure...but they were definitely MIA at this shindig...I still had fun though :) Even though I had to tell about 200 people that yes, I did actually exist back then and I was sorry that I did not know them.

Here's a quick shot of E & I about to head out the door to go to the big event...