Beatrice Loves

Peacock Park

It's been lovely in Austin the last few days, meaning that we have been spending tons of time outside. We ventured out to Mayfield Park this morning with our favorite weekday companions, Aunt Lo and Henry. We had a picnic, read some books, colored, and explored the grounds. But the most exciting part of Mayfield, was as always, the peacocks.

Maily!

For the past few months, Ruby has been obsessed with an ipad app called Maily.  It allows her to send emails, art, and photos to her friends and family, and is pretty much the coolest app ever.  As you can see from the examples below, the grownups have a lot of fun with it too.

Some Bebe Love

The last few posts have been all about Ruby, so I wanted to include some Bebe love from the last few weeks. Here she is, a little bit cuter and sweeter everyday.

Ruby Signs the Alphabet

This video is about two and half months old, but it's still great. One of her favorite TV shows is Signing Time, a PBS show that teaches kids about sign language.  It's now Beatrice's favorite show, too, and she's picked up a lot of signs (her favorite at the moment is "tree").

Ruby's Fourth Birthday

In what we hope is an annual thing for both of our kids, we interviewed Ruby on her fourth birthday to see what her life is like. I'm sure that we'll look back at this in fifteen years and cry.

Tea for Ruby

Ruby and I celebrated her fourth birthday today with a mother daughter tea date at the Four Seasons Hotel. She picked out her fanciest outfit, I painted her nails hot pink with rainbow sparkles, and she even wore a peacock feather in her hair.  We both declared that it was the fanciest she has ever looked, and celebrated with a fashion show in the front yard.

I have been looking forward to our high tea date for several months, and it was absolutely perfect. I plan to write down all the details in a letter to Ruby so that she can read it as an adult and know how special her fourth birthday celebration was to both of us. Some photos from our fancy afternoon: