"Party like it's your birthday!!"

We celebrated Adyson's birthday today. She, of course, had a SpongeBob Party. Complete with a SpongeBob cake. All was fun and games until we started cutting the cake to serve it and Ady said "SpongeBob Owwwie!!"

Here's the cake.

We opened presents...here is Adyson buried in a sea of presents. She had lots of helpers to help open presents. She received lots of clothes, 2 or 3 bubble sets, a HUGE sidewalk chalk set, a dress up dress and shoes, Handy Manny truck and chair, a singing puppy dog, a See 'n Say...and probably some other stuff I am forgetting...
We borrowed a blow up bounce house from Quentin's co-worker. Needless to day it was hit in a house full of eight 5 and under kiddos!! Here is Ady bouncing around.

Daddy had to help Ady blow the candles out, maybe nest year she will understand the concept... Quentin did get her to help blow though!

When the partying was done and the "friends" (that is what Ady said, "bye friends") had gone home, Ady was all tuckered out. She her is snoozing with MeMa Carla. It didn't take long and everyone in the house (besides me of course) was snoozing.

All in all it was a great party, and we are definitely buying on of these inflatable bounce houses!!

Random Adyson Fun

I don't actually remember what this face was about, but clearly something disgusted Adyson. :)

Adyson always loves to have her pictures taken and she always wants me to take pictures of her body parts. She always says "Hair Piturrr" "Butt Piturr" "Bo-Bo (that means elbow at our house) Piturr"... This time it was her feet. So here are Adyson's pretty toenails...

And one wasn't enough, so here is the bottom of her foot... "Foot Piturr"

She is chewing (well more like holding in her mouth and making herself drool) one of those nasty Valentine's Day Heart Candies. She loves those things although I think they are gross. She always begs for "Mo Hart"

I asked her what she was eating...this was her response.

She isn't rotten at all...not at all. :)

Granny Sally's Visit

Quentin's mom, Sally, is here to visit for Adyson's (and her) birthday. She got a wild hair up her rear and decided that we should make Piggy banks for Adyson (and Brady and Drew)!! It was pretty much a disaster in the beginning, but we finally got it all together and made piggy banks. Ady's is pink (of course) with butterflies on it, Brady's was blue with Thomas the Train on it, and Drew's was blue and green with John Deere tractors on it. I realized I didn't take a picture of theirs, but I got Ady saving her "mo money" "mo money" with Granny.

Early Birthday...

Adyson received a package from Grandma Cheryl on Wednesday of this past week. Of course, I knew it included her birthday presents and I opened it up to see if they were wrapped or if I needed to wrap them. It was all over after that, so Ady got a "pratice" session if gift opening...

She insisted on not letting me get a good picture of her with her eyes open... what else if new?

Oh NO!! Ady got a tent!!

...and a tunnel. So, Mommy was going crazy trying to keep an almost-two-year-old busy all day every day, and this is by far the best $40 I have spent in a long, long time.

Ady cruising through the tunnel, after she went through a few times, Shasta even chased her through it a couple times!!

It is a little "static-y" in the tent, here is Ady's hair sticking to the tent.

She pretty much went bonkers over the tent as soon as I opened it up. Luckily for me it is "pop-up" and it super easy to put up and take down. Although, to be honest, I haven't taken it down since I put it up the first day!! She puts all her babies to bed in the tent and loves to steal pots and pans from the cabinet and "hide" them in there... It really is non-stop fun!!

There is a hole in the top of the tent that you can "shoot hoops" in to. I took this picture looking down into the tent from the top. She was rolling around going crazy. I cannot believe I actually got a pic of her looking up she was moving around so much!

Here is a full view of the tent. (and all her other toys that have completely taken over my living room - Ha! I mean "Ady's play room")

Since it is pop-up, it is pretty flexible and she has tipped it over several times. She just laughs and finds the hole so she can get out.

Keeping busy when it is cold outside

Since it is wintery cold outide these days, I have resorted to all sort of strang ways to entertain Adyson. We clean house (Ha! She messes up what I just cleaned), she takes lots of baths (with bubbles of course), we empty the toy box at least once a day just to see what toys are hiding in there, and Adyson loves to hide in the kitchen cabinets.

One day, all these fun ideas were not enough for Ady, she made up her own game, "See how many times she can crawl in and out of the pop up hamper before it rips." She played this game for about an hour. I watched and laughed and took pictures (obviously).

On several occasions she got herself stuck, a couple times to the point she almost started crying. The handle you see here caused most of these hangups, as it fit perfectly around her head.

Hiding from Mommy when I tried to put it away.

One more close up. I finally talked her into "helping" me carry the hamper up the stairs where we filled it with stuffed animals (my original intentions). Now every time we go upstairs she dumps out the stuffed animals and "hides" in the hamper!

Playtime with Brady

Adyson and Brady love, love, love to play and play. Here are a few pictures taken back in January of the kiddos playing at Brady's house in his tent and tunnel.

Ady crawling through the tunnel

Ahhhhh!!! It is Cookie Monster Brady!! He has just enjoyed himself a chocolate chip cookie :)

And no night of playing would ever be complete without a hug. We can't seem to ever catch them kissing eachother on camera...

In the next picture of the sequence...Brady is pushing Ady away...too many hugs leads to a bad case of cooties!!

Snow day with Daddy!!

Ady had a snow day with Daddy today, since he wasn't able to get to work!! While watching "Imagination Movers" (one of Ady's favorite shows) they were playing "air guitar" with her toy golf clubs. It was quite amusing!!

They were really getting into it in this picture. Ady even makes funny noises when she plays guitar... She learned those from Daddy, too!!

They took a time out to wear funny glasses and hats, I couldn't resist posting this one of Quetnin, though he will probably kill me when he sees it!! :)

More Snow! More Snow!

... or as Ady would say "Mo know! Mo know!!!" At least that is how it sounds!! We had a good 6 inches of snow on the ground when we woke up this morning!! Of course, Quentin had to work, but luckily for us he got stuck twice in the snow on the way, and ended up coming home and having a snow day!! This is a picture of the snow in the cul-de-sac, the snow plow piled it up and the kids had a blast!! Adyson loves playing outside, and throws a huge fit when it is time to come in...




Shasta LOVES the snow. She would stay out there for hours if I would let her. She just runs around and jumps all around! Ady stood at the back door looking out saying "Shasa (she doesn't pronounce the "t" sound) whaddtdataya dooouuuuuing? " (that means what are you doing?)




Adyson helping Daddy shovel the driveway!




Disappointed about coming inside, as always!!

Snow!!

It snowed today at our house, and Adyson was excited to finally get to play in the "noooooow"

(Basically say the word "snow" without the "s" sound on the front...) Last time it snowed, the

only time she got to play in it was in the parking lot at the grocery store, and it took us 30 minutes to get from the car to the front door, she had to step in every track and clump!! This is the first year she has really been old enough to play in it so I just let her play. So today, when she saw it snowing out the back door, she wanted to play immediately!! We didn't play until the afternoon when it was warmer (HA! if you can call 22 degrees warmer...) and she had a blast. It was so cold that the snow wouldn't even stick together to make a snowball!!! It only snowed about 1/2" so we got the broom out and swept it into piles so that Adyson would have more snow to play with. She had a blast, but absolutely HATED coming inside. She threw a huge fit, and based on her screaming, the neighbors probably thought I beat the tar out of her (but I didn't). Hopefully we get some "real" snow soon and we can build a snowman... Guess we'll have to wait and see!!

AdysonBobSillyPants

Adyson's latest obsession is SpongeBob SquarePants. Every morning when she wakes up she crawls out of bed, comes to our room and says "Milk, Bob Bob". She says something that resembles "sponge" but all together it sounds more like "Bob Bob" hehe. So, of course, SpongeBob isn't on tv around the clock, so we now have 3 SpongeBob DVDs that we rotate through when he isn't on. She still loves Handy Manny, Tigger and Pooh, and Imagination Movers (but they are only on in the AM) and it is all Bob Bob from there out!!

We were browsing through K-Mart the other day and she had a complete melt down. She started cring and screaming and going wild so I let her down to walk. She walked back 2 aisles and picked up a SpongeBob "accent pillow" and needless to say, it came home with us and she was a happy little girl again...

Well, I did it...I created a blog!!

In due time, I will get this thing up and running and pretty and fun... Until then, I am playing around with backgrounds and "learning" how to blog!! I blame Margie and Monica for my sudden interest in this ordeal, hehe, thanks ladies!!