Birthday trip

Tuesday was my birthday, and since Nick had a golden weekend this weekend, we decided to go down to San Diego to celebrate. We went down after nick got home from call on Friday and on Saturday we went to the Wild Animal Park. The girls loved it! For my birthday Nick got me a flip video camera, so here is its debut.

The petting zoo was really fun. I have never been to a petting zoo where the only animals were deer, but Kat loved it.

Ali just loved to go in all the tunnels and caves that they had there. But later she admitted that she liked the giraffes.

Birthday Party!

It has been too long since I last posted. Long enough to realize that I missed posting Ali's birthday party, which I really should not have done. We had lots of family drive far to make it; some came from San Diego and some from Bakersfield. I think it was a success, but maybe it was because it was my little girl who turned 4!

Does every 4 year old have this much attitude!?! She wanted to just go play, not stand here and just take a picture.

We had her party in this great indoor play space. Ali is up there at the top climbing her heart out.

Then she took a dip in the balls with her new boyfriend Calder, whom she informed us she is going to marry.

Then we had a little pizza, with some flirting!

Not everyone wanted to eat their pizza on the table.

And some didn't like the pizza much at all.

Then it was on to cake, Littlest Pet Shop, of course!
(Alicia did not like being the center of attention, especially when she had to blow out the candles, but she loved the cake.)

Then presents, all the kids crowded around for every present, it was kind of CRAZY how excited kids can be over these toys.

Post would not be complete without Ali's best friend, Kellie. And crazy thing is she really is Ali's best friend. It is pretty loco how much Ali loves her friend, (maybe the downturned eyes full of love may show a bit of how much she loves her.) I really believe that Kellie has made the transition from Boston to Manhattan Beach easy on Ali. She had lots of friends in Boston that she loved to play with and it was hard to leave, but Kellie made all that better. Plus she gave Ali a BARBIE!!!! How much better of a friend can you get?

Thanks Jim!

Happy Birthday! Ali is 4 and this was her birthday package from a good friend Jim!

Ali loved everything in it. Jim ALWAYS seems to know exactly what Ali loves. Her party is tomorrow, and I promise to post some fun pics of the day.

Question for your thoughts

My question....

How much brownie batter does it take to make a 3 year-old sick?


Or an 18 month-old?

Dez

I think Gaby got my message about the clothes, because now Dez is always wearing properly fitting clothes. Gaby told me that she was upset because the clothes that were in that post were not especially cute, (fyi, the onesie in that post was a back-up from a blowout diaper that he had earlier). I think to make up for that he has been wearing especially cute things to my house each day. Or perhaps she is just making sure that in case I post pics of him, he will be in a cute outfit. Well, today he was dressed super cute!

And LOOK the knee pads are at his KNEES!!!! Plus look at his chubby, chubby, edible feet!

What a happy boy!

It is never too late for...

Cupcakes!!! In the beginning of July I bought a cupcake kit for Independence day. Like many people with a million things to do and little time, I failed to make the cupcakes before July 4th. Well, more than 6 months later and I finally made them. Luckily the kit had a long shelf life.

Dez was a big help licking the spoon. Since he is a bit young for raw batter we gave him a clean spoon, and he thought it was great!

Ali mixing up the batter. She hardly spilled any, which is a big step!

Kat helped frost!

And then she added some sprinkles! (notice there are already a few bites taken from the cake!)

End result. (Well to be totally honest these are the ones that I frosted, I was not fast enough to take a finished result of either of the girls' cupcakes).

Too small?

I have been extremely lucky in that I have been able to watch my nephew Desmond for the last couple of months since my sister-in-law went back to work. This is their first child and he is extremely cute and cuddly. Anyone who sees those cheeks has the desire to kiss them he is so cuddly. But he is NOT small. He may have been small at one time in his life. Maybe for about 2 weeks after his birth, but since then, no. He is a big boy, and I don't mean that he is obese or anything, he is just big (maybe because his dad is about 6'5"). Well anyway, on to explaining the purpose of my post...
Gaby has been bringing him to my house in the mornings and I always comment on how big he is getting and how his clothes are not quite fitting him properly. I don't think she is getting the message. Now I understand the love of an outfit. I even dedicated an entire post to one of Ali's shirts, which was extremely hard for me to put away long after she had outgrown it. Some of the times that I tell my S-i-L that things are too small she complains that it is the first time he has gotten to wear the outfit, but that is NO excuse! Give it two years and he will still be wearing clothes that are 2 sizes too small because he has to catch up on the new outfits. I really was just giving her a hard time in the beginning because the outfits that he was wearing were just slightly too small on him, but now it is just getting funny. Below is the onesie for today.


Notice the tightness of the onesie as a whole as well as the "muscles" bulging out of his arms. If he moves to the side you can even see a little cleavage!

The buttons are barely able to come together. One slight movement and...Pop!

This outfit had me laughing so hard when I took him out of his carseat. I know it doesn't look too small on first inspection, but those round circles on his upper thighs are knee pads. Notice the crotch buttons are again being pushed past their limits.
Anyway, even if the clothes are too small, he seems pretty happy in them!