Now that Lindsy is walking I figured she was finally ready to really go outside and play. Her and Clayton spent over and hour digging in the rocks and dirt. Don't let that New Mexico sunshine fool you it was a lot colder than it looked!
Lindsy got into a fight with her soup and I think it won! Clayton who was looking on in amazement commented in his ever flat voice with barely any expression: "uh oh...sis has an 'e' in her hair!"
Just looking at these pictures and Lindsy's expression gives me the giggles! Do you see the E in her hair and what about the noodles on the floor behind her? If you want to see this picture larger just click on it.
Yumm... Lindsy LOVES banana chocolate chip muffins. So I make them pretty often and this is usually the end result. Anyone for a kiss??
Clayton and his Toga. (Clayton's Note to others: "these are NOT easy to play in and often come apart!")
My walking buddies.... well for them they more or less get to ride. :)
Lindsy got her OWN chair! When Clayton turned 16 months I got him a little blue chair. His sister and him fight (can you believe it?) over the chair nonstop. Lindsy will be 16 months next week so it was time for her own chair!
Making it officially hers....ripping off the tags.
Clayton didn't get the new chair this time but.... He did get every little boys dream. A box House. Here he is hiding in it,see his little fingers holding the doors closed?
Quite the cozy little place for snacking. I thought about helping him write "No girls allowed" but then I realized that would include me and didn't want to encourage that. :)
Here we are just getting off the ship in Jamacia.
Lindsy is trying to fill her bath cup with the water dripping off her other toy. Pretty smart! For some reason she insisted on having her pacifier in the tub last night.
Clayton who is a true boy loves to play with the water pistol. He has a great sister who lets him squirt her and thinks it is funny.
Here is a video of Lindsy goofing around. I am sorry that the sound isn't working I am going to keep trying to get it fixed. As a side note, for those of you who are going to be appalled that Lindsy is standing in her High Chair, I must explain things. Lindsy is a DARE DEVIL the more dangerous, the more she likes it. We have done everything we can short of super gluing her butt to the chair. Even when she is tied down she will wiggle her way out of the ties and stand up. We have even tried to belt her in with the same result. Not even a swat on the hiney will get her to sit down. Since she learned to stand she insists that she stand in her chair. Before she could stand she would sit backwards in her chair. (If you don't believe me look at my very first post.) I know we are the parents and that we shouldn't let her get away with it, but we are at our wits end. Jeanie (Wilfred's mom) just laughs and says "oh yes I remember" So apparently this is just proof that Lindsy is a CRONK KID! If any one has any suggestions on ways to make her sit please leave your comment.
The Kids first Airplane ride! My Grandpa Cliff decided to take all his kids and grandkids (and 2 great grandkids) on a cruise vacation. We left on Friday the 21st of December. It was pretty fun since there was like 24 of us. We basically had our own section of the plane. And there was well over 40 large suitcases. We spent Saturday in Miami and then got on the Cruise ship Sunday. The ship we went on was called the Freedom of the Seas. It is the Largest cruise ship in any Ocean in the world. The ship even had an Ice Skating rink where they put on ice skating shows. We stopped at 4 ports. Haiti, where I didn't get off the ship. There was a Iranian gun boat that escorted us into the Island. I was too scared to get off. Wilfred got off and said there were gaurds with machine guns nearly everywhere. Then we went to Jamacia. I loved it! Our next stop was Grand Cayman Islands. I didn't know that the Cayman Islands were still owned by Great Britian and therefore still under the British Queens rule. It was very neat to see. Our last stop was at Cozumel, Mexico. None of were impressed and no one has any desire to go back there! Then it was back to Miami on Sunday were we got off the ship and went straight to the Airport to come home.
Sissy(my Aunt Janice,) Alexander, Lindsy, and Me all playing at the beach in Miami. We spent a Day in Miami before getting on our Cruise ship.
Tuckered out after a day at the beach in Miami.
Here is Lindsy and I in the H2O Zone on the ship. Lindsy LOVED the water and didn't want to get out of it. Clayton was a little fearful of it and hated to get his face wet.
This is Ocho Rios, Jamacia. I loved this place! I didn't expect it to be as mountainous as it was. Everyone was facinated with Wilfred's boots because most of them didn't even have shoes. About every five minutes we would get stopped so the locals could see the boots. Wilfred had to lift up his pant leg several times. I would love to go back to Jamaica...any takers?
One of our stops in Grand Cayman was the town of Hell. It got its name by the natural rock formations there. They were pretty creepy, there is all this beautiful green and sand and then bam these creepy rocks. There is water at the bottom of the rocks but it is nasty and murky from lizards and other things that have fallen in there and been unable to get out.
We went to a Turtle farm in Grand Cayman. We learned some facinating things about sea turtles. Clayton got to hold a Turtle egg. It was like a ping pong ball but bigger and it was much heaver than you would expect. We all got to touch a turtle. I would have never expected that their shells were rubber like. I always assumed they would be hard. I learned Sea Turtles are different!
Eating a Hamburger at the Miami Airport. We were all tired out and waiting to come home. We had to fly from Miami to Houston which is where they forgot to put our luggage on the plane. So from Houston we flew to Albuquerque only to arrive and find we had no luggage. Our men were nice enough to wait around to collect our luggage 3 hours later.
Clayton was clunking around the house in his Daddy's boots....I think those are some pretty big shoes to fill! 
