Another Day in Padre

Good morning cousins...

 Love the below pic of Ian...he's making a face at Ryan and I just think it is so cute.  You expect little girls to mimic Mommy & Daddy by making silly faces at babies but I was not really think Ian would do that kind of thing.  It was really adorable.

 Ava near our drip castle...my favorite kind of sandcastle to make. I think I could spend hours down there building sandcastles..so relaxing and enjoyable.  See?  I should live near a beach.

 And now, Ava's favorite part..destroying the castle!

 Smushing it...

 Jumping off it...

 Sliding down it.

We were enjoying the photo shoot and then this: "I'm done!"  or at least that is what her face is telling me.  Or was it her yelling at me to stop?  Ha!  I do get a little picture happy. 

And she's back...crazy girl!

 Another castle, this time with a moat...Ava kept trying to destroy my moat as I was building it until I told her to wait and then she could demolish the whole thing.  As you can see, she enjoyed walking around in my little moat.

 Pure joy!

 Self portrait of me & Ava.

 Later that day, we put Ryan in the pool to swim for the first time.  He enjoyed it to some extent...will be better when he is a little older and when we have a float for him.  This is one of the rare pool photos I took.  Just like the lack of adult pics, there is a lack of pool pics too.  Really bad about taking photos this time around...maybe it's just harder now that I have 2 kids?  Because whenever it was just me & one kid, I had my camera out.