The 3rd Birthday

On their actual birthday, we took a day trip to Grandma & Pop-Pop's beach house. They spent the day splashing in the small pool, walking up to the beach, and celebrating with a cake. Kaylie was not into the cake because she wanted a Princess Castle cake. I kept telling her she was getting one at her party the following weekend. I think they enjoyed their day anyway.

Here they are on their actual birthday

The following weekend we had their party. It was Cars and Princess themed. Gotta love a clash of themes. I made Kaylie this Princess Castle cake she HAD TO have. Her cousin had one at her party a few weeks prior and her mind was set on that cake. Since Ryan does not like cake (what kid doesn't like cake or ice cream for that matter?!?!?!) I made him a sugar (he doesn't like chocolate either--weirdo!) cookie "cake" with a Lightning McQueen design. Here are a few pics of that.

Sitting at the dividing line of a decorated table for each theme. Kaylie wouldn't let go of her princess balloon. This was the first year they could blow out their candles.

Here they are opening some presents. They got lots of clothes, princesses, Buzz Lightyear, backpacks for school, beach totes and towels embroidered with their names, and money to be used for college savings. They also had a ball playing with their cousins in the sprinkler and slip and slide (although that popped pretty quickly and that was the end of that).

February Happenings

Aside from the snow we had this month we've been doing our best to survive winter. We do our usual weekly trips to the library, continuing speech sessions, errands, and we finally had a few playdates this month!


The kids are officially enrolled in Nursery School. I don't know what else to say about it. Obviously I have the feeling of "My babies are growing up" and then I have the feeling--well I will finally get some time for just ME! I hope that doesn't sound selfish but I don't get much time for myself and I am looking forward to finding Liz again. We are still waiting to find out if they qualify for the public school preschool program due to their speech delay but in the meantime I needed to secure a spot for them elsewhere.


As for their speech delay, we have made leaps and bounds. They may not even qualify for services after their March review which is scheduled for this week. So we shall see. I will say that this month I found them having more and more conversations with each other. It's really cute.


Here they are baking cookies. They love to help, but they HATE waiting for them to bake. Don't we all? My kids pretty much think every cookie we make HAS TO have sprinkles on it. Here are chocolate chip cookies getting topped with sprinkles.



I actually haven't taken too many pictures this month.