Rain, rain go away!

It has been raining every day and when it's not raining, it's cold!  Isabella has been watching outside a lot lately and if you open a door but she doesn't get to go out, she lets you know she wants to play outside. 

We have independent steps forward!

Last Sunday Isabella started standing on her own, and she's been obsessed lately with walking holding onto our hands.  She can walk holding onto one hand but prefers to have an object in each hand.  She also loves to walk holding onto a hula hoop.  Aidan likes to help with this task but it's not really "helping".  Tonight, we decided to see if we could get her to walk in between us.  Last night failed miserably, but tonight, we put a ball in each hand, and with a lot of encouragement, and some visual reassurance by holding our hands around, but not touching, her belly, she took steps.  She would take 3 steps at a time in between us, back and forth.  She was so happy!

Picture is from next day, and her hands are blurry, but too cute!

 

Go baby girl, go!

Aidan quote of the day:  "I did play the farm game with Max.  He was red and I was yellow.  Tomorrow we can play again and I can be red and Max have to be yellow."

(Aidan's favorite color is red and apparently, so is Max's, his friend at school)

Tasty!

Aidan quote of the day:  "That was a great dinner!  That new food is tasty!" 
(after eating tater tots for the first time)

Happy Mother's Day

Today was Mother's Day.  I got breakfast in bed, flowers, cards and cast handprints of the kids.  I love it!  Isabella's has a hole in it - apparently she wasn't a fan.  We went to Red Robin for a late lunch and both kids had a great time.

My lilac started to bloom and it smells so fragrant!  Took some photos of the lilac and the tree today!

Aidan quote of the day:  "Mom-mom, this is Happy Mother's Day."

Dinosaurs, Volcanoes and Fossils!!! Birthday party time!

Aidan's 3rd Birthday party started with a request in January for a "volcano birthday cake with a brown and green T-rex".  I thought about it for a while and then started looking for different things I could use to make this an amazing little birthday party for him.  I found ice cube molds to make T-rex and Triceratops fossils.  I made both chocolate fossils and ice cube fossils for everyone's drinks.  I also found some cute mini dinosaur chocolate molds and had fun making little chocolate dinosaurs.

 

Decorated the hall with 3 dinosaurs for the 3 year old birthday boy!

I found some plastic dinosaur fossils for a fossil dig in our fire pit filled with sand.  We also made a volcano and used the old vinegar and baking soda trick to show the boys a volcanic explosion!  Found some dinosaur bean bags for dino toss.  Overall we had a great time and this dinosaur party was a great memory made!

 

Sadly, during the party we didn't have time to enjoy our dinosaur toss but we played as a family later that night!