Morgan's Birthday

A quick recap of Miss Morgan's 2nd Birthday!!  Seriously?  Where have the past 2 years gone!?!!!  Doesn't seem like 2 years, that's for sure!  She had a wonderful birthday and was showered with love from friends and family, near and far.  Thank you so much for blessing her so!

Miss Morgan on her BIRTHday!

Our sweet girl on her 2nd Birthday

Waiting for Birthday pancakes!!!

Starting the day off with a gift from Nonni & Papa!

Hannah Grace, checking out all of the comotion

Birthday Dinner!  Homemade pizza!

Stuffed Lightning McQueen for Addison?!!!  AWESOME!!!! Thanks N & P!

Hannah needed a little help with her gift from Nonni and Papa... Addison was more than willing to lend a hand!!

Both big girls have spent HOURS looking at this book!!!

Woody & Bullseye from Addison and Hannah...which was later returned because Bullseye's leg broke... we now have woody and rex because they were out of bullseyes! 

The newest addition to Addison's group of "friends"

The first creation:

Kisses for Woody!

I think they appove of the cake...

Birthday party on Sunday means MORE cake!!!

Playing with her new little people from Grandma Cosby and Poppa Stu

Happy 2nd Birthday Dear Girl, we love you so very much!

"I've got Gas"

If you know anything about Addison, then you know she LOVES the movie cars.

We've known for months now that the second movie was coming out this summer.... in 3 days to be exact!  The flux of "cars" merchandise to hit the shelves has "fueled" (pun intended) desired behavior and has done wonders in making the last step in potty training (nights) a success! (the reward was a set of car sheets after staying dry at night for a few weeks).  Seriously - I'm sure there's something in every room of the house that can be tied back to the movie... Kraft has car shaped mac and cheese - that's in our kitchen.  She's actually watching the movie right now in the living room... There are Car themed coloring pages in the master bath.  There are Car bath toys and band aids in the other bathroom, etc etc.  Take my word. 

Well, yesterday, Addison seemed to be particularly gassy.  I used that to my advantage and gave her a lesson in ettiquite/manners... here's the amusing part of how it unfolded...

Me:  "Addison, do you need to go use the potty?"
A: "Nope.  I just farted."
Me: ...pause... ok.   "Well, what are you supposed to do when that happens?"
A: "Go to the bathroom."
Me: "Well, why didn't you?"
A: "I like how my farts smell."

I had no good rebuttle for that.  I usually don't.  Something amusing like this happens on a daily basis and until lately, I've failed miserably at recording them.   So, from now on, I will attempt to catch and record the witty and amusing things she says.

For the record - "Flo" is the character above from cars... she runs the V8 Cafe - the gas station in Radiator Springs... so she has gas too!

Photo Credit: http://www.motortrend.com/womt/112_0607_disney_pixar_cars/photo_18.html

Oh... and yes.  We changed it up a bit here.  Hope it looks a little better! ;)

Pre NTC

Grabbed a few pictures before heading out the door to drop Josh off for NTC.

With each additional hooligan... getting everyone to look at the camera at the same time and not blink and smile... well, the job just gets more challenging!  Going back through the oodles of pictures I was able to snap it's actually quite entertaining to see the range of emotions on all of their faces.  

  

We made a paper chain for the girls - though, Addison's the one that gets it the most right now.  Every morning we go in and rip a link off the chain and she knows that when we get to the red ones, Daddy comes home!

I've learned a few things here... 1.  The chain we make for the deployment is going to be VERY long...  2.  make smaller links or this thing will DOMINATE our house for the next year!!!  ... I think we'll hang it in the back hallway this fall...

Karen, look what we saw as we were headed out on errands last week!! :)  Thought I'd throw them up for you!!!  A few days later I drove by and saw they had a yellow truck too... certainly not as fashionably dressed as this little car though!!

Moments to Remember

I've always been one to choose my battles in parenting; remembering what is more important and what the goal is that we're working towards.  It hasn't been an easy path, but it's rewarding... and it helps to document the things that either drive me nuts along the way... because 99% of the time... they're pretty darn amusing!   So, while years down the road, I'm sure there's a chance that some of these shots might embarrass the girls... but chances are that they'll laugh too... because we do, and they're our girls!!!

Here's a picture taken just a few days ago (6 June 2011).  Addison didn't want to finish her cereal, so she took it upon herself to put it in the dog's bowl.  This is usually what we do, but not always.  Two lessons were learned today (I HOPE!)

1: "I need to ask mommy before feeding Tanner"
2. "Tanner's water bowl is for water.  His food bowl is empty."

HA!  The cereal must have needed to be watered down for him!

Someone loves sweet potatoes!!!