fun & games

Last week, we went to Chuck E Cheese's for a birthday party.

Our sweet cousin, Aubrey, turned

2 years old!

The birthday girl, Grace, and Tripp had fun dancing on TV!

We ATE a lot of pizza, PLAYed a lot of games, WON a lot of tickets, and had a lot of FUN!!!

swim.

Yesterday, we went swimming with Steph, Drew, Tripp, & Charlie at Aunt Terri's pool!  We had a  SpLiSh-SpLaShIn' GoOd TiMe!  It was Carter Man's first time swimming and he might of actually enjoyed it for a little while!  We hung out, swam, ate lunch, and swam some more!

randomness

ok...let's see...where to begin

We finally started Carter on some cereal and well, he wasn't into it.  At all!  (Of course he wasn't!)

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Grace used her piggy bank money and went on a little shopping spree.  Her plan was to go to the Disney Store and get the Beast to go with her Belle.  But, she changed her mind.  She wanted to get "Punzel."  She didn't have enough money to get Rapunzel from the Disney Store, but she did have enough to get some sunglasses and Rapunzel from Target.  So, she bought some Ariel sunglasses and left.  But, she changed her mind.  She now wanted to ride the carousel.  She had enough money for that too, but that was it!  She rode the carousel.  But, she changed her mind.  She wanted to jump.  Not enough money.  But, she changed her mind.  She wanted a cookie.  Not enough money.  But, she changed her mind.  She wanted pizza.  Not enough money.  Finally, we got to Target with enough money to buy "Punzel!"  She was happy!  John and I were exhausted!  3 years old is not the appropriate age to learn a life lesson about money!

"I bery wuv my special Punzel!"

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Carter is starting to get the hang of this whole eating food thing!

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Woo-Hoo!  My parents took me up my offer!  We are going to the beach!!!  I'm so excited!  Thanks Mom & Dad!  We are so grateful!!!  Now...I have to get this body ready to be in this for a week!  Carter!!! 

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My mom got us a pet!

Love it!  This is my kind of pet!  Thanks Mom!!!

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Grace can feed Carter.

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Carter can hold his bottle!

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We had our first Craft Tuesday.  My mom and Lily came over and we made this.

we painted the board

painted the words using a stencil that I made with my silhouette and painted the "sun" with Grace and Carter's handprints

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well...that was random!  If you are still reading this, you are AWESOME!  Thank you!  And, I hope you have a 

FUN, sunshiny dAy!

Five Months Old

Carter, at five months, you...

• still like to be held, but you don't have to be
• love your swing a lot
• love your play mat a lot
• like your exersaucer
• love to be talked and sung to
• say "da-da" and you say it a lot
• grab and hold onto toys (especially the orange elephant, the bug chimes, and Grace's giraffe, Kenya) 
• can hold your bottle
• are very ticklish
• laugh out loud a lot
• are trying really hard to roll over 
• love your puppy "lovie"
• absolutely love your sister
• sleep at night in your bed and take naps in the swing or the bed
• sleep through the night
• eat 6 ounces every 3-4 hours
• have just starting eating cereal once a day
• wear 3-6 month clothes
• wear size 2 diapers

GRaCe'S "SLuMBeR PaRTY"

Grace planned a "girls only" party for her and Lily.  She was super excited to see her "Sissy."  They talked on the phone before the party...too cute!

The girls wore their pajamas!

We ate dinner...Grace wanted peanut butter sandwiches, pretzels, and pink lemonade.  Not my idea of party food, but she was the party planner!

I tried to girly it up a little, so Lily had a flower shaped sandwich...

...and Grace had a butterfly shaped sandwich.

Next, they played with make-up!

Then, they made a pallet and watched Gnomeo and Juliet.

You can't watch a movie without popcorn!  Oh!  and some Oreos (I won't tell you how many Beth and I ate).

When the movie was over, they acted the movie out and had to be called Gnomeo (Lily) and Juliet (Grace) for the rest of the night.

Lily didn't spend the night.  I'm not ready for that yet (ha!) and I'm sure there will be many, many more opportunities for spending the night in the future!  So, that was Grace's Juliet's "Slumber Party."  She is a good little party planner and she had so much fun!

This has brought back memories of my slumber parties...pizza, rotel, cookie dough, the movie Only You (I have no idea why I always had to rent that when someone would spend the night), makeovers, lots of laughing, and usually someone crying!  

girls!!!