Getting Settled

Memorial Day weekend we went down into BR to see the river and go see the real tiger at LSU.  It was BLAZING hot outside and I totally forgot what a giant sweaty person I am.  yuck.  And the girls kept commenting on how sticky they were and how thirsty they were.  I think it is going to be a long summer!
And the tiger sighting was a bit of a bust as well as they were apparently having a giant two day country concert in the stadium and therefore driving and parking was a huge hassle.  But we of course persevered and did get to see Mike...well the tiny bit of his nose sticking out as he was way in the back in the shade (smart cat!).  The girls did think it was interesting that his nose was pink so I guess that was a success.

In front of the MS with Gramma and Gary

So now we have entered the everyday life with D back at work and no school for the girls!  Week one went pretty well.  We went to the library for story time.  I cannot emphasize this enough: the kids here wear bows that are HUGE.  Like the size of their heads.  Having no bows in our hair at all, we were clearly the odd girls out.  I am not sure I can bring myself to buy any though.  I mean they are giant.

In front of our subdivision entrance

We have been lucky that we have a couple of friends here from Houston and they both have kids pretty close in age to the girls, though they are summer birthdays and will be in Kindergarten next year.  We have seen those friends a ton and that has made the time go by extremely fast.  Though they are working moms so not super helpful to me in filling up our days....which seem to go rather slowly when they are not in school.  Fortunately we have several new kids channels and the girls have really been enjoying some new shows to watch.

Last week as we were driving to Home Depot (though we decided that it was just too darn hot to start our garden now - we are postponing to the fall) I saw on the FBC sign that they were having VBS this week.  So as we were still in the car, I called them up and registered them.  So this week from nine to noon each day, they are going to VBS. (we did go to church service there this Sunday so it would not be totally weird).  Day 1 went well - though it is weird to just drop them off and pick them up in a carpool line.  Audrey told us that the Bible story was about making a path through the river so the peoples' toes did not get muddy as they crossed it.  Pretty good summary.  They said that they each made a new friend though they did not remember the names and as it turns out there was some shuffling around of the classes and the friends ended up being grasshoppers and the girls are ladybugs.

At our (super tiny) community pool.  The house just to the right of Brooke's head in the background in out house.  We have been walking and riding our tiny bikes to the pool.  It will be nice for the girls to use their new bikes!

Our immediate neighbors on our street are very friendly (though we have not actually met the parents in the house right beside us) and we have gotten some watermelon and (weird) Louisiana cookies and some FABULOUS strawberry jelly.  It is a small street and half of the people are retiree/grandmotherly people.  And there are three husbands named Bob.  There is one little boy who lives on the street who is just a little younger than the girls and will be going to pre-k with them next year (again a working mom so not home during the say).  And one of the ladies frequently watches her grandson and he is also the girls' age.

This was at Great Wolf Lodge in front of their favorite slide - sadly during the move we have lost these bathing suits!

They all were riding bikes together which helped to prompt the purchase of new bikes for both of the girls.  Which is huge that Audrey is now riding her bike!  Unfortunately Brooke's new bike came with a flat tire - which D has now changed - and so she has not gotten to ride it yet, but I assured her that we would do it today.   Will post pics of that later.