Children's Museum

I am back! Our computer crashed and put everything in the Price Household into chaos. I was lost for awhile! We were able to restore all of our files but I lost my e-mail contacts. So all in all things are back to normal. Now I have to play catch up!

We had our last play date of the summer a few weeks ago. We went to Kalidescope, a local children's museum here. The kids seemed to have such a good time. Normally when we go for play dates Austin just comes home and doesn't talk about it. He was telling Nick about it at dinner and kept saying he wanted to go back with Gabe and Gavin. He could have played there all day if I let him. They had a pretend grocery store, post office, hair salon, CSI lab, jail, dress up area, play house, black light room, and a big play area for them to play in. For $6 it was definitely worth it and that included lunch! We will be going back. My only reservation is I always wonder how well they clean the toys at the end of the day!!!

$4.00 well spent

I went to An Affair of the Heart (craft show) and I always feel like I need to come back with something for both Vivian and Austin. If you have ever been to An Affair of the Heart, they have nothing for little boys. I found this Grow Your Own Lizard for 4 bucks!! They also had snakes, frogs, etc. It was quite the entertainment for 10days. You put the lizard in your bath tub and it grows and grows. The kids went in every night to pet him. He was pretty slimy and felt real. Anyways, if you ever see one of these they are definitely worth the $4!


Taken the first day in the tub and then taken on the last day.

Play dates

We have play date every Thursday. Today was a visit to the farm to ride horses. We have attempted numerous times for Austin to ride ponies and horses but he always gets spooked at the last minute. He finally rode today! It took a second time and seeing other friends do it who were brave, but he did it! Vivian was happier as ever in her stroller having a snack. Maybe the next play date will be more for her age?




I watched our neighbor Gabe a few days ago and the boys played Twister. Definitely a good stretching exercise and teaches left from right. :) As you can see, Vivian has a new move she does all day long and Austin is now doing it too!!!

Independence Day

So, I'm a little behind on blogging. I am now a part-time working mommy so I don't have near the time I did before. We spend July 4th weekend in OKC with family. We missed Rockets over Rhema this year. Rockets is a community Christian concert in Broken Arrow that has an awesome fireworks display. Austin and I did however watch the fireworks from afar. We had a date just the two of us. Vivian is in bed every night by at least 7:30 but I'm hoping that next year she can join in on the fun!


The works...we bought these last year and they were still good!


Before dark



Miss Independence

Date Night

Nick and I have been pretty good at planning regular date nights. I think being a nanny helped me see how important it is for young parents to make the time for each other. It can get a little expensive since we don't have family here but it is well worth hiring a sitter to have a night out. Austin was in OKC so Vivian had the sitter all to herself. We saw Knight and Day....I LOVED it, highly recommend going to see it, went to dinner, had dessert at the Melting Pot (bananas foster is our fav) and then listened to a pretty good band on the River walk. It was a fun nite out!

Can you guess which pics were taken with my crappy camera on my phone?


Vivian with her sitter from church


I painted Vivian's toes for the first time today. I just put her in her high chair with a snack and tried my best. Her little toes are so tiny. I know its definitely not salon perfection but those are some pretty cute toes!

GNO Game night

We had GNO (Girls Nite Out) at church on Friday night. All ladies in the church were invited...women of all ages were invited. There ended up being girls from the young families class and about 5 ladies who were 50 and older. If you had asked me ten years ago if I thought I'd be playing games on a Friday night with women who could be my grandma I would have said, "heck no". As a matter of fact, I had so much fun. We all brought different games...I brought Twister but couldn't get anyone to play :) and we ended up playing one game of Cranium and then we were all tuckered out because it was definitely a game of thinking. I found out I stink at unscrambling letters to make a word but I am pretty good at figuring out songs when they are hummed to me. We used to hum songs in the car on road trips with my mom so I guess I've had some practice. Here are some pics I took of us thinking, drawing with our eyes closed, playing puppets, etc and eating lots of junk food!

Story time in the park

Today our play group met for story time in the park. Austin has never really taken to story time at the library. I guess he just can't sit still that long? Vivian seemed to enjoy it some but for the most part they just wanted to drink and eat the snacks I brought.

I have always got made fun of when I drink from a bottle...I think he gets this from me.





The park had a pretty neat play ground and water area for the kids to play. I didn't bring Vivi's swim suit because she's not walking yet and I thought it was going to be an actual splash park. They had the cutest area with about 2 inch deep water for the babies to crawl around. Needless to say, we will be going back because we had a blast! I just wish it was closer to our house. We got stuck in a huge traffic jam on the way home and Austin about had an accident in the car. I just might take my friend Kim's advice and start carrying a potty chair in the back of the car!!!