Lake Charles

After Mary Claire's run and a few errands, we headed to Lake Charles for a weekend focused on Mary Claire and Molly!

First stop was a splash pad! Mary Claire LOVED it! I wish the one here in Alexandria was in a better part of town. Nannie and I have decided we will choose a day and go early in the morning.

Isn't Molly soooo cute wearing her big sister's flip flops?? I guess Molly is going to love them as much as Mary Claire does!

After playing in the water for a little while, we heard some music.....it was the ice cream truck! This was a first for the girls!

Yummy ice cream!!

After walking around the boardwalk and eating lunch, we headed to "the beach!" Lake Charles has a pretty nice beach; it was very clean and not too crowded. The girls had fun for a little while, but got pretty tired. We only stayed for about 45 minutes.

I was so surprised at how brave Mary Claire was! Look at her out there!

She even sat down with the water up to her neck! My girl is getting so big!

Bathtub fun at the hotel with cheap plastic cups!

For dinner we ate at Steamboat Bill's. The food was good, but the girls were not. Mary Claire fell out of her chair and cried and cried. Molly hates the high chair! Joy!

The next morning we got an early start at the pool!

On the way home, we stopped at the really nice park in Forest Hill, waiting until 11am so we could eat lunch at Mi Tierra, a local Mexican restaurant we had not tried before. The food was really good!

I could NOT believe she climbed this!

All in all, it was a fun weekend. I didn't get any pictures of the girls playing at the mall. We went to the mall after Steamboat Bill's to let the girls run off some energy and hopefully sleep late; they weren't up at 6am, so I guess it worked!