Category Archives: Lennox

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Dr. “Stuffins” and Dr. Kollin!

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Last weekend, my brother in law, Kollin, graduated from medical school. He is officially Dr. Kollin! We are so absolutely proud of him. Just a short 3 years ago, he was living with us trying to get into medical school for physical therapy; now he is graduated and a doctor! Way to go Kollin!!!

kollin-graduation That being said, Lennox is SO EXCITED that he is a doctor. She was just over the moon when I told her he was becoming a doctor. So we headed to his graduation festivities and she of course had to bring her Doc McStuffin Doctor kit, because you know, she is a doctor too!

I asked Lennox if she was goign to go to school “here” too.. here as in UNT where we were attending the ceremony. She said yes, I said what type of doctor? She says, I’m already a doctor, Dr. Stuffins! Too cute.

So when we were at dinner, I told her to go up to Kollin and say, “You’re a doctor now Uncle Kollin, Yay!”. Instead? In front of everyone she says to him, “YOU’RE A DOCTOR LIKE ME NOW!” The mind of a toddler – it’s a funny place!

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Perot Museum of Nature and Science Dallas

Family Fun Day: Perot Museum of Nature & Science

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As I mentioned in my Mother’s Day post, we headed to Dallas to check out the new Perot Museum of Nature and Science.

Perot Museum of Nature and Science Dallas

I wanted to share some of the photos from the trip with Lennox. To be a kid again and to use your imagination so much; at times, I’m so jealous of her!

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Lennox pretending to be a “fireman”. Don’t tell her she really is a road construction worker! perot-museum-05

Doing some grocery shopping at the “farmers market” where she could pick out some great fruit and veggies, pay for them, sort them and bag them up! perot-museum-04

Watching snakes with daddy and asking LOTS of questions!

perot-museum-03 Learning all about locks and how they work with the Great Lakes! Hey, maybe even I learned something ;-)

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And check out her reaction here while Kyle was racing Felix Jones in the sports exhibit. Kyle lost by .01 second, that’s pretty good! Lennox was cheering her on and so proud of her daddy!
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Lennox and I racing a T-Rex. They may be big and move slowly but they have HUGE steps so we had no chance in beating it! But Lennox could pretend to be a dinosaur, nevertheless!

Perot Museum Racing

 

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Great Family Weekend!

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Mother’s Day weekend has come and gone, and I have to say, it was one of the best family weekends we have had lately. It was full of 100% great quality family time! Which, I think came at just the right time. Next week Lennox and I will be traveling up to Cape Cod, then I may be going to London for a week or a few for work, then Lennox will be 3 and then I’ll be going to Chicago for BlogHer, so there is just a lot going on soon – so some quality time together was just what we needed!

At school we had a Mother’s Day breakfast, which of course she always loves when I go to school with her:

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Friday night we went shopping for some new goodies at the outlet mall and Lennox got to ride the carousel, which was pretty much the highlight of her day!

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The highlight of my night, other than being together with everyone? New coach purse for Mother’s Day from Kyle!

Floral Coach Bag

Saturday morning we had gymnastics and then did some errands and had lunch out. Simple enough, but still fun! Lennox is really enjoying gymnastics – she is really good at the balance beam (the ones a little lower to the ground she will do without any help) and is learning how to do a back flip on one of them!

Little Gym Gymnastics Balance Beam We also spent the afternoon/evening outside in the BEAUTIFUL weather (Sunny, 80*, with a little breeze).  We worked on Lennox’s gift for mother’s day. Kyle had gotten all the supplies for us to make a flowerpot together. Can’t wait to plant some flowers in them this week with Lennox!

Toddler Flower Pot

Then on Sunday, Mother’s Day, we headed out to Dallas, (after Lennox finally woke up at 930am!) which we rarely do. We finally made it to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science; it is an amazing new museum. We had such a great time and have so much more to see next time (thanks to the membership we got for Christmas from my sister!).

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Dinosaur at Perot Museum

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Racing at the Perot Museum against Dinosaurs!

After the museum we took a walk for a few blocks and ended up at the brand new Klyde Warren Park. I had seen the park on TV when it first opened and it looks pretty awesome. Lennox loved watching all the people and puppies! We were able to get some yummy food truck food and then of course, play in the big fountains. That probably was the highlight of her day ;-)

Lennox in the Fountains at Klyde Warren Park

Klyde Warren Fountains So to sum up the weekend… after a rambling explanation (sorry!) – it was full of fun with Lennox & Kyle and moments like this make my heart full and complete!

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 I hope everyone else had a great mother’s day!