Julia's Happy Place

We finished the long weekend with a day at the pool. When I was growing up and I was sick or upset my Mom always had me describe my happy place to get my mind off things. I have taken the same approach with Julia and she decided when she has surgery in March that her happy place was PawPaw's pool. She was more than thrilled to spend her day at her happy place. She has an ear infection so she had to wear a funny looking ear cover all day. She did very good and only tried to take it off about 20 times. Baby steps people. Aunt Renee said she looked like a swimming snow bunny. Ha!

Adventures in Babysitting

My weekend was complete, becuase I got to babysit Valerie for 5 hours by myself. Chris and Renee had tickets to the opera. I got to stay home and be silly. We played inside, we played outside, had naptime, snack time and music time. By the time her parents got home we were singing and dancing. Hopefully I wore her out. We had a blast!
Let the fun begin!

Babysitting is not work with a face like that.

Was I not supposed to give her a bottle?!

Playing peek-a-boo under the blanket.

Snack time in Julia's big girl chair.

I put a hat on Valerie because it was sunny. Julia had to have one too. This is what she went to get.

Theme Week

This week at Julia's school was theme week.
Monday - Hat Day
Tuesday - Crazy Sock Day
Wednesday - Plaid Shorts Day
Thursday - Mix Match Day

Another First - First Rangers Game

I thought she was too young for a Rangers Game. Boy was I wrong. She yelled, she cheered, she danced and clapped. The game was Aunt Renee's idea to celebrate PawPaw's birthday. It was a blast! And can she get any more adorable in that red hat.

Good Times with Old Friends

My ADPi little sis turned 30 and her parents and best friend gave her an awesome suprise party. We drank berry mojitos and toasted the birthday girl. Happy Birthday Lindsay!

Valerie's 1st Brithday

On Saturday was Valerie's 1st birthday party. I can not even explain how cute this party was. I am super impressed with my sister, she did an awesome job. The colors were perfect and every detail planned. I will let the pictures speak for themselves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where did the weekend go?

Right after church this morning we headed to the Zoo. As if we had not already done enough this weekend. With our season passes it is so easy to pop in and out of the Zoo. It was perfect weather and we had some much needed family time.

We never leave the Zoo without feeding the birds.