Train Ride

At the end of February, Mike and I took Allie on her first train ride!  It was really just the metro rail here in Houston, but Allie thought it was the coolest thing ever.  Every time we stopped at a station, she would roll her hands like the wheels on the bus and say "more, more!"  The metro just goes in a straight line into downtown and they were working on the rail so we could only get inside the loop, but Allie loved it, and we loved watching Allie.  Oh the simple things in life!

Happy Birthday to You

With our influx of birthdays around this time of year, Allie has learned to say "Happy Birthday to You" and if there is anything resembling a birthday candle and cake, she will blow it out and clap.  

Lucky for Allie, it was Mike's birthday on the 11th and he turned 29!!!  He is so busy with work and school, all he wanted was to go to Taco Bell and have cupcakes.  We were happy to oblige and went wild at Taco Bell and spent $11!  That is a lot of Taco Bell food!  Later that night, we had the Tingey's over for cupcakes and ice cream.  

Mike is such a hard worker and a loving husband and father.  We don't get to see a lot of him, but when we do, we love it!  Happy Birthday Mike!

Boots!

Allie got a package from Grandma and Grandpa Meldrum and inside were these awesome pink boots!  They have been her shoe of choice since we got them and I love it because she can put them on and off all by herself.  Allie is a shoe girl and changes her shoes multiple times a day.  The other day I found her sitting in a pile of our shoes trying them on for a good 10 min all by herself.  

Cookie Time

Allie loves to cook!  Whenever I am in the kitchen she is right there along beside me, asking to sit on the counter so she can see everything.  She knows exactly what she can and cannot touch and what is yummy.  When I have something on the stove, she will say, "That's hot, don't touch!"  She also loves to stir and pour ingredients, and most of the time they actually end up in the bowl.  On this day we were making Chocolate Oatmeal bars and she thought the chocolate filling was delicious, and I don't blame her.  Yummy!

3..2..1.. Blastoff!

In January, Lane, Mike's old roommate from college, came down to Houston to interview for a residency.  He was here over a weekend, so we went to NASA Johnson Space Center to go to outer space.  While it is not quite the NASA in Port Canaveral, we did get to see where the astronauts train and some old rockets.  We really enjoyed ourselves there, although I think Allie's favorite thing was the choo-choo train ride around the property.

 This is where the astronauts train before they leave on missions

This was the Saturn Rocket which was created but never used.  It is HUGE! It is sad to see so much money and technology go to waste.  There was also a lot of interesting facts and the museum, but an almost-2 year old isn't really into that sort of stuff.  She did really well anyway and we had lots of fun!