Happy Birthday, Dr.Seuss!!

Today we hosted a playgroup to celebrate Dr.Seuss' birthday. D just loves the book, The Cat in the Hat, so I was more than happy to indulge him in some birthday cake. Anyway, the teacher in me really wanted to celebrate with the school children!!

There were 6 of us scheduled to attend, but only 3 of us were able to make it. Boo! Oh well, more cake for us!!! HA! Here's some of the fun we had:


Our colored hat creations.


An inside view of the Cat in the Hat birthday cake.


The cake table.


The cake all ready to cut in to!!


I asked the kids to wear something red in honor of the Cat. We read the The Cat in the Hat(well, most of it), colored our own hats and sang Happy Birthday!

All in all, a great playdate.

March Madness, already???

While I LOVE the month of March (first day of Spring, St.Paddy's Day parade, Spring Break) I am so not looking forward to March Madness at our house. I feel like we have limited time with DH as it is and this month I have a feeling it will only be worse. Think there's a chance he'll forget it's March?

Last week was a busy one for us. We had something pretty much every day! Here's a sampling of what we've been up to:


Oscars party at Nana's. Cheering for Toy Story 3!!


Enjoying some ice cream. After repeated requests to stop at the "Ice cream store" I finally relented and we swung through the drive through for a treat.



Sidewalk chalk at the park with our church's mom's group.



Finger painting a picture for sister. Look for this to pop up in a future post about sister's room!!


Tomorrow we are hosting a playdate for Dr.Seuss' birthday. I'll post pictures of our birthday cake tomorrow (and maybe some of the kiddo's enjoying it!)

What a difference a week makes!

So it's been about a week since it's snowed here. Actually last week it DID snow here. Yesterday we were invited to a picnic at the Arboretum with some of the neighborhood gals. There were about 6 of us who went. It was a great impromptu get together and we've discussed making it a standing Tuesday event to get the kids together (and socialize as mommies, too).

Of the 6 of us, 2 have recent babies and older sibs, 3 of us are pg with #2, and one is done with kiddos for now. This is a great support group for us mommies who are starting all over again with a newborn.

We were actually able to fly a kite!! The weather was AWESOME!! Here's D and I in action; you can really see my baby bump popping out!




The Valentine's party was pretty cute, not a whole lot to do, but they did have a bouncehouse which kept D busy. He also made Daddy a valentine's card and was so proud of himself! I should really take a photo of it for my Project Life book.

Mommy has Bunco tonight so Dominic and Daddy will have a guy's night tonight. I'm so glad they get to spend some time together, just the boys. Maybe they will work on sister's closet some more. They're really close to finishing, they just have to nail in the shelves and get the rods up. Then I can start hanging up all those tiny little clothes and the reality of a little girl may start to sink in finally.

Rushed to make a post

So, Dominic has been sleeping for a little over an hour and I'm now on what I call "borrowed time" - the magical time in which he could wake at any moment. I am always assured a good hour nap, any moment over is simply due to the stars' alignment.

Here are some photos from the snow storm we had last week. Blogger is finally being nice again and letting me post pictures.







This week is a BUSY week for us. We have something on the calendar everyday this week. Monday we have a Valentine's party with the neighborhood group, Tuesday is a playdate, Wednesday we are meeting S and B at the mall, Thursday we have a Meetup charity event and Friday is another playdate! Phew!!

I have some photos of little sister's room but they will have to wait; I want to put together a storyboard of these as the room progresses!

Well, that was my fast recap! Off to nibble on the chocolate chip cookies we made earlier!!

February snow days

We've been holed up inside for 5 days now. First we had a tremendous ice storm blow through that paralyzed the city, then the lowest temps we've seen in a very long time (15 degrees???). Friday we got 5" of snow piled up atop the icy roads and still we stayed inside. It was too cold to play outside for longer than 10 minutes at a time.

This morning we've got a bit of a reprieve: we managed to stay outside in the elements for a good hour with Dad and Annabelle, making two snowmen, a family of snow angels (complete with one for baby sister) and got some fresh air in our lungs! What fun!!

The batteries to the camera died but I did manage to capture some photos from over the course of the 5 day hibernation. At the moment blogger is not allowing me to upload photos so I'll have to try again later.

I've also got pictures of the baby's room and how we are preparing for her arrival.

Sugar and spice...

Looks like we'll be adding a bit of sugar and spice to our house this summer!!! We got a great look at her and Dominic even joined in the conversation saying, "Baby move around....So cute!"

I almost titled this post something else entirely, "Breaking up is hard to do", but wanted to keep the focus positive rather than negative. Basically, this week I have come to the realization that I need to "break-up" with one of my friends. What happened, you may be wondering???

Well...it goes like this:

I am a punctual person. You all already know that. When I have made plans with someone and can't make it, I always make sure to tell them with as much notice as possible. I also try to be on time anytime I am meeting someone out. This past Tuesday I made plans to meet a very new acquaintance and an old friend. I made the details and emailed them both with time and place instructions. I was the only one to show up!
I received a phone call from M asking me where I was, if everything was okay. I told her that I was at said place waiting. She proceeded to tell me that she and the other gal were at another location waiting on me! Did neither one of them read their email???? So D and I had to leave the original meeting place to go to the *wrong* location to meet them.

This is not the first time that M has flaked out on this kind of stuff. The day before this breakfast get together she emailed me to see if I wanted to go to Pump-it-Up with her that morning. I reminded her that we had plans with S. She admitted that she forgot about our plans. Then she asked me what time?

When I had the summer camp, she was a participant. The day of the camp she called to ask me when camp started, and I don't mean what time, she meant what day!! Then she asked what time and THEN she said they would be there everyday instead of the 3 times a week she had previously told me. So I had to drive out and get more supplies for them to attend all week!!!

It's this kind of air-headedness that drives me bananas. If you have plans with someone at least have the courtesy to write it down and the respect to remember it!

So this breakfast get-together was the straw that broke the camel's back. I have got to call this friendship quits before I say something tacky to her. How's this going to go? I have no idea!!!

Anybody home???

I promise we are still alive and well. I'm going to try to keep up this month with our busy life. We've already had quite a bit going on!

I received a new Project Life kit for Christmas and have been plugging away, taking a photo each day to display in the album. My album from last year is only lacking 4 pictures! Not too bad for a busy mom, huh? If you want to see what the fuss is all about, check out the Project Life kit here: www.beckyhiggins.com

Today we don't have a scheduled playdate however O is coming over to play and enjoy a custom-made firetruck cookie. D asked for one earlier and I promised him we could make cookies after his nap.

We got a cool firetruck cookie cutter from Aunt Suge for Christmas so we put it to use today. I'll post pictures of the cookies later, they are in the oven, smelling the house up real nicely!!

Other big news?? We find out pink or blue in just 4 more days!!! I still can't believe that we are already almost halfway through this pregnancy! I am 19w, 2d today. Wow!!

I am planning on doing a cute photoshoot with D sometime tomorrow so I'll post pictures of what I'm able to capture.

Thanks for hanging in with me!!