A Whole New World

Kyia loves to sing and is pretty quick to pick up on songs.   "A Whole New World" has been her top choice of songs lately and she will sing it over and over again.  Mike sings this to her before bedtime so she likes to watch that part since Mike is out of town.  It's just not the same when Mommy sings it.   She will sing along with the movie and as you can see, she has some actions down also.

No Sympathy

The two firms Mike has worked with this summer have kept him extremely busy and have spoiled him a little bit.  He is have fancy steak dinners almost every night along with lunches and all expense paid trips and activities which he likes to rub in a little bit.  Especially when he is headed out to one of his fancy dinners and I am eating a grilled cheese sandwich for the third day in a row.  The other day he had a night off.  Kyia and I had already eaten by the time he got home so I didn't plan on making anything.  When Mike got home, he was hungry and started looking through the house for some food.  He started asking me, "what am I supposed to eat?  There is nothing to eat in this house."  Apparently, he is now too good for the type of food Kyia and I have been living off of for two months, three meals a day.  Soup, mac and cheese, and sandwich's.  (Not the healthiest foods but we only had so many utensils to cook with).  He only has a couple weeks left and then it's back to reality.  He has enjoyed his time out there and has been able to do many exciting things.  Kyia and I spend most of our time swimming or at the parks and museums around.  I'm enjoying this summer to spend with just her before the baby comes.   

Mike at the Astro's baseball game in the owner's suite

Painting at the "Mad Potter"

Another day of swimming to cool ourselves off

The Houston Children's Museum

Surf's Up!

A couple weeks ago, Mike and I spent a couple days in San Diego, CA. I have always loved it there. From the weather to the beach, you can't go wrong. It was a welcomed change from the hot heat and humidity of Houston, TX. We stayed at the Four Seasons resort and just spent our weekend getting pampered, all thanks to the firm Mike is working at this summer. Mike had surfing lessons on morning and I was pretty impressed. It was his first time surfing and after a 5-10 minute lesson on the sand, they took him into the water to try out what he learned. He actually made it up on the board quite easily. He said it was a lot more wearing than it looks and got worn out pretty quickly but I did get some good pictures. I spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing and the spa and the pool. That night, we had a Texas Hold 'em tournament and Mike ended up clearing our table and coming in fourth place. I somehow cleared the table of our first game, making a $90,000 increase. We should go to Vegas! We had a great trip that went by way to fast! Thanks to Mike's mom for coming to watch Kyia for us so we could go. I'm sure she was worn out after a couple days. Kyia had a great time with her Grandma and can't wait to see her again!

Happy 4th of July!

We hope everyone had a fun 4th of July weekend.  We are down in Houston and found out that Houston has one of the biggest land based fire works shows in the country so we thought we would check it out. We are staying in an apartment about 2 miles from downtown, right where the fireworks were so we decided to walk it instead of dealing with parking and the traffic afterwards. Kyia visited the ice cream man on the way down for the first time.  We didn't really pay attention to what she picked.  With the heat and humidity, it melted so much faster than she could eat which turned out to be pretty messy. It ended up staining her mouth brown for the night. She also dropped it in her lap which stained both of her legs as well.  We were worn out by the time we got home with the heat and everything but it was much better than driving and we could both use the exercise.   The show went on for about 30 minutes and fireworks were going off in two places.  Having not seen these before, we weren't sure where to sit to get the best view.  There seemed to be a lot of people there for the first time because as we asked where the best place to be was, no one knew.  We ended up picking the perfect place, right in between the two shows.  We caught a video of part of the finale we thought we would share.  This is one side of the two.  Kyia wasn't too sure about the loud noise.  She was so excited for them at first but as soon as they went off, she plugged her ears the entire time and said they were "scary and loud".  Maybe next year she will enjoy them a bit more.