misc pix from the almost recent past

Introducing "KIKI", (I don't know where she got that name from, but to a few friends it actually means someone. ;) ) our build a bear birthday bear. I had a coupon and she got money from Aunt P for her birthday, she could have picked ANY animal in the joint... she picked the cheapest one they had! If only she would do that when I am really on a budget! lol



And now for a VERY RARE find... a photo of Me and C! This was from his (surprise) sunset birthday cruise that I set up with some friends. It was sooooooooooo super nice and relaxing. We totally need to do it again. :)




This is where C set The Boy down for his nap, over the weekend. I'm surprised Duke stuck around for as long as he did.



We thought about hitting Meremac Caverns on our way back from St Louis in July, but the tour was 90 minutes and they don't allow strollers; instead we killed some time in the gift shop.



Okie dokie, so I think that is all for now; we have a trip coming up so there might be more pix in the future! :)

~Til next time!

We had a party and she turned 3!!!!!

I really can't believe that The Girl is three years old now. It doesn't seem like that long ago that I found out I was pregnant and now I'm supposed to say that she is a preschooler! She's soooo big and yet still a little baby at the same time. We had a party at a gymnastics center, it was going to be something different, it would be inside (out of the triple digit heat) and they were offering 1/2 off for August bday party's so for me it seemed like a win-win scenario.
At first, she played shy, fingers in her mouth and everything, she eventually warmed up if Daddy was with her to do all the motions and then she was having a blast and didn't want to go home. So pretty much, she behaved just like a three year old! :)

Saturday morning she came downstairs to this:

"Her Princess doors" as they are now called,(and yes, it is still up. Daddy's not in town, so I'm not doing anything to upset her!)



Her smile couldn't be any more fake! Punk!



At her 1st bday party we discovered her sensitivity to food coloring, so we have a 'party cake' and a 'birthday girl cake'. (little note: we will do this FOREVER now for all bday parties... I LOVE that the birthday person only blows their germs on their own food! Everyone should take up this tradition! :) )

Party cake:



Birthday girl cake: (free from food coloring!)



Shy 3yr old with fingers in her mouth: (it could have been worse, she could have cried and not participated at all) I'm counting my blessings.



Feeling more ok now that Daddy is holding her hand:



She's doing it all by herself!!! :)




Totally having fun and enjoying herself! :) YAY!





They did a whole obstacle course thing too, but I didn't get pix b/c I was playing too. :) A friend did though, so if I ever get those I just might share them with you. :)

She hit the princess mother-lode in the gift department. Makes me want to have a birthday party for myself. :)

Then we did gifts at home, these are from Aunt V and mommy and daddy. :) We got a bike from Aunt D and Uncle R a few weeks ago, I need to get better pictures of that. We also went to build a bear with money from Aunt P, but pix of that are on another camera (if the kids stay asleep I'll get to post that too). Aunt Stacy and Uncle Bryan sent stuff too but we opened that early. LOL








and that reaction was to this:







Guess what we played with first???




and yes, we had to take a bath too!



and The Boy? how did he fare?.... well he got a princess wand (I did ROCK the party favors if I do say so myself!) and he LOVES it and C R I E S if you take it away, so don't do that ok????

Here we go again...

C's company :insert LOOOOOOOOOOOONG story: needs to move him to a different team for budget reasons, the only one that they can find for him right now is in New Jersey. Sooooooooo, the schedule will be that he leaves on Sundays and comes back on Thursdays.
I already have a migraine. :(

The Girlisms

I usually just post these golden nuggets to facebook, but I've realized they will get lost there so I'm bringing them here for 'posterity'. :)

A few weeks ago, The Girl asked C for something and he asked her if there was a magic word that could make that happen. Her response? "Bippity, boppity, boo!"

The other night she was asking for a nuk (pacifier), I told her she already had one in her mouth, she said she wanted 2. I said, but you only have one mouth! She replied, "but I have 2 lips!". Yes, I gave her another nuk. (She's fully aware that when she turns 3, we are bringing the nuk's to the dr to give to the babies. We'll see how that actually goes down! LOL)

Yesterday in the car on the way to church, she blurts out "Schobert will be mad at us." I asked her why she said that and she said, because we aren't at church yet. I told her we were on our way and she yells out "don't be mad Schobert, we are on our way!"

She turns 3 in two weeks, it's only going to get more amazing from here!

just checking.

and you guys passed. ;)
So I was kidding about the not blogging anymore thing. :)
I am going to try to do this once a week. Daily is just too much for me and monthly is simply not enough for me either, I think I can hit the weekly goal though so that should be good enough for everyone! :) Feel free to bug me via email if I fall off the blogging wagon again. :)

We are heading out of town in the am for a quick weekend jaunt to my aunt's place in South TX; so the high temps AND humidity should make me erupt in spontaneous combustion!

We spent the 4th of July in St Louis. We had a really good time, it was great to see friends that we haven't seen in forever. I'm hoping to post a few fun pix from that excursion.

Here are some random pix that I will try to narrate for you:
The Girl and the boy that I watch, praying before they ate lunch. I was cutting J's sandwich when I heard The Girl say, "Let's pray" and thankfully my camera was right there on the counter and I was able to catch this gem. :)



When I showed his mom this picture she said "where is J's food?" lol

The Boy fell asleep while we were setting up the kiddie pool; no crying, no fussing, just put his head down and fell asleep. lol



This is The Boy and his 'girlfriend'. She is the daughter of some friends of ours in St Louis and was born 2 weeks after him.






ok, I think that's all I have for now....

~Til next time!