Thursday, April 26, 2012

News from the Aunt Front: It's A...

Heard news from my brother and sister-in-law yesterday...so excited for them!!

Mama and baby are healthy and both doing great!

But one of the most exciting things is...



Congratulations...Uncle B, Aunt R, and Bennett!!

Hope your "sweet, innocent" girl is ready to be welcomed into the world by our wild clan! Boys will be boys! And VW is so excited!

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

We Have BUBBLES!

A couple weekends ago, Daddy was working on building a tool bench and continuing our garage / basement / house organization. So, we thought it best to invite our cousins over! I know more kids seem a little silly when the focus of organization is the goal!! However, cousins are so much more fun than asking Mommy and Daddy when they can play and holding a screw driver!

Boy, did they have fun. It was the perfect morning for bubbles and with a fresh bottle of bubbles and some cool new wands we were set. We had contest who could blow the biggest bubble, who could catch theirs and even share with a friend, and who could spin and get dizzy and produce the most.

Thanks Cousins IM and NR for fun morning of bubble creations!


















Monday, April 23, 2012

Smash the Cake into Your Face

Was so excited to have DG eat his cake. He loves himself some good grub and I knew he would get into eating his cake. VW was not very interested in his first birthday cake nor getting dirty. And even though a lot of thought and effort is put into making these fun cakes, the best part is seeing your child smashing them into his face!

DG definitely played in his, not sure how much actually made it into his tummy!

Of course, we had a baseball theme,
down to the Dodger plates!

Trying to get a picture with Mommy and the cake,
but DG started digging in!







Sunday, April 22, 2012

Birthday Bash - Gift Opening

It is hard to believe DG turned one this weekend! He had a lot of fun with all the generous gifts he received! I will let the pictures show the "fun"...


DG in his swing from Grandma & Papa

Always holding something...
I will not let go of my rake.

Thanks Grandma for the push!

Digging in...




Proud Big Brother!

Big Brother helping DG out!

Who is my audience back here?

Sometime the tag is the best part.


Putting money in the bank Papa gave me!

I wonder if this block fits?

All done opening gifts!
Thanks everyone!

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

AWKWARD

VWs new thing is to walk around and randomly say "awkward."

Now that is awkward!

Only VW!

Friday, April 13, 2012

Flames Are Fast

I haven’t documented some of the conversations that we have been having with VW lately. He seriously is always telling us what is on his mind. It makes me laugh!
After a rough week with him…it actually isn’t really his fault…Mommy and Daddy have been letting him get away from manners and somewhere along the way he decided it was okay to whine and cry. Nope…not an option at our house.
Anyway, back to the cute VW conversations. As we are rushing out of the house this morning, I called VW for the second time to come downstairs to get his shoes on. I put DG in his car seat, grabbed my 5 bags (seriously, do I really need this much stuff), the container of muffins for DGs teachers (it is his last day in the baby room), VW exclaims, uh, reprimands me for leaving something on the stairs.
“Mom, you do not leave something on the stairs, someone may fall, you can do better next time.”
Okay buddy. I will remember to not leave things on the stairs.
VW gets his shoes and jacket on and starts buckling himself in his car seat and tells me that he listened and he would like some gum, please.
Then he tells me about his cars in his pocket for show-n-tell. And his chapstick.
“When you go to Michigan, you can watch movies. Or Grandma and Papa’s. Or Nana and Papa’s, cuz they are far away. But not to buddies, that is not far away.”
“Garbage truck!”
“Yep, it is garbage truck day.”
“There is another one that way!”
“Did you know if you had flames coming out the back of your car, you would be really fast!”
“really?”
“If you turn them off, you are slow, but flames are fast!”
Now, could you imagine me coming down the road in my vans with flames shooting out the back…love it!

Thursday, April 12, 2012

A Rainbow of Eggs

So, I am out of chronological order of Easter activities, but oh well. The last few years we have started the family tradition of coloring Easter eggs with our cousins. It is too cute how much it has already evolved over the years!

The first year VW and Cousin NR removed their clothes and colored eggs in diapers for a very brief time.


But really it was just more fun to play!


This year the table was set, the rainbow of colors ready for dunking and the tongues out in concentration for the best egg coloring ever.








We let DG get in on the action from afar. But mostly he just snacked in the high chair.






TaDa! Our beautiful rainbow of eggs!



But the day couldn't end without some more fun!
So Cousin E added some stylish
hair gel to
NR and VW!