Tea Party...

Just sitting down after an amazing fun and busy weekend and trying to reflect about all the great things that happened! The best event had to be Sophia's 4th Birthday Party which was themed a Tea Party.  The invitation said to come over in your Tea Dress and bring your favorite stuffed animal.  Kylie had a blast playing with all the Three and Four Year old girls. The party was complete with makeup, jewelry, hats, tea sandwiches in the shapes of butterflies, spiders and hearts.  Tea Cookies and oh Tea too!  They even had some paparazzi boys going around filming them and taking pictures.  A fun time was had by all!  Brian even had a blast, although watching his little girl get all made up hmmm.. not ready for that

Kylie getting ready to go into the party... 

 Makeup, Hat and Jewelry Check (Check out that adorable Tea Table behind Kylie!)

 

 

Some of the Girls 

(Sophia - The Birthday girl is in the Purple Hat)

 

Kylie drinking her Tea (Lipton Cold Green Tea)

 Silly Sophia, Kylie and Mia - 

After the Cake, Lollipops and Cupcakes

 

Bonus Shot - Kylie on Sunday after her Cupcake, she didn't want to admit that it was her! 

 

Splash Adventure Sunday

What a great day! All of us are exhausted from all our outdoor fun! Kylie, Brian and I met our friends at Splash Adventure this morning for two hours of splash fun. This is a great park as the water is only max 3 feet deep so the kids can run play and enjoy the slides. By 10 mins into the day Kylie was wanting to go head first down all the slides as long as you went down the slide after her. The favorite thing is the pail that turns over and dumps water everywhere.

The Pail...

After some down time at the house of coloring and playing we met our friends at the clubhouse for some water action fun. We had games of chicken between Kylie and Sophia. Swimming races with Kylie, Sophia and Mia. Plus Brian became a speed boat for Kylie, Sophia, Mia and Becca (he is tired now!). The girls couldn't be bothered with the fish out of water game the boys were playing they were having too much fun. It was great to see them all together and playing and we always enjoy all meeting at the clubhouse and swimming along!

Um the pool again Mom??

After a great dinner, Kylie basically marched herself into the bathtub and straight to bed she was exhausted. We asked her if she had a great day and she said YEAH and said Love you Mama and Daddy, see you later. I think she was snoring before we walked down the stairs!


Oh and Brian has a new blog.. check it out at LumsYums

Busy Week

We have had a busy week and haven't had time to make a post. Last weekend we went to Hugo Sr. birthday party and Kylie had a great time in the pool. She was thrilled that Terri and Hugo's dogs liked to swim in the pool with her and William and Isabella. She was like oh no doggy in the water and then they were swimming so she just joined in. I know I know a picture would be better but you know I was eating and supervising!

Here is a picture of Kylie resting on William's shoulder. We keep telling her that he is too old for her!



Brian has been collecting coke caps and codes for years and years and even has my Mom entering in the codes she gets. He decided to cash them in and get Kylie a.... WAIT FOR IT.... Hand held Vacuum. I thought it was a tad bit sexist but turns out she likes to clean up spills and messes (Oh I forgot her OCD) and helps me out.. She says I GOT IT and runs to quickly vacuum up a spill with her special toy.



Lastly, our neighbors Abbe, Becca and Noah were up in New York for a Dance Competition / Camp where they all hung up with my favorite choreographers from SYTYCD. Super jealous. They brought home Kylie this awesome Red M&M guy. She has been sleeping with him lately.. Too bad he isn't real as M&Ms are my favorite (blue is my favorite guy!)



Hope your having a great week wherever you are and not melting from all this heat. Florida is apparently a "cool" place to be this week!

The Chinese Laundry Girl

The other night I was trying to kill time why Brian was putting together some dinner for Kylie and I. What better thing to do then start laundry. I should step back and say it had been well over a week and when I ran out of running shorts I knew it was time to do some laundry! I asked Kylie to help me sort the clothes and she insisted that I SIT DOWN MAMA and she sorted them. She put Mama clothes together, Daddy clothes together and Kylie clothes together. She got very upset when I tried to teach her light clothes and dark clothes and quickly got the point. She then dragged the laundry basket by herself telling me Mama I got it to the laundry room and preceded to stuff at least two loads of laundry into the machine. She just said Mama go sit down, I got it!

Now if someone else is going to do the laundry I am not going to stand in the way. The funniest part was when she found a pair of her shorts that looked like she had a good fun day at school and were covered in paint, mud you name it. She holds them up to me and says Oh no Mama what happened and lets out a big sigh. (At this point I was thinking I was being punked! I mean this is what I think every time I do laundry). So I explained to her that we had to use stain remover and she needed to be careful when we ate and played. She insisted on spraying the pants until every fiber had stain remover (and she did manage to get the entire stain out!)

The machine didn't die from being over stuffed and the clothes were washed nicely. Kylie was no where to be found when it was time to dry, fold or put away but it sure was a huge help to have someone start the wash for you! It was nice of her to let me put my feet up for a few minutes!

Doing the laundry

Kylie is 98% potty trained and is doing great. The other night she decided to wear a hat and sing Twinkle Twinkle, plus play the drum on the potty! We ran out of battery but captured a bit of it.

Kylie being a NOLE fan and eating her Chinese pastry!

A Saturday of events...

Today was a busy day for Kylie. We started off the morning with swimming, which every week she gets better and better at. Its hard to talk to a parent and ask them how old their child is and soon learn that they are 4-5 years old and Kylie is swimming like a fish next to their child. But everyone has to start somewhere. After swimming, we were at a fund raiser for Kylie's swim school. The event was at a Bricks 4 Kidz location, where they incorporate Lego toys with education. As daddy grew up playing with a ton of Legos, here are a few shots of her experience with them along with "Mr. Blue"! We finished off the night at a friend's place, Billy&Wendy's along with their 2 kids Isabella and William. Besides great food and company, Kylie had a blast running around all evening!

A Giant Swim with Mr. Blue!

Let's start with the large beginner blocks....

And on to the original size Lego pieces!

My first Lego creation!

Kylie just loves hats...

Does this explain the day of fun...2 minutes into the car and I was talking to myself!

Happy Happy Birthday America

We had an amazing 4th of July weekend, filled with visits with both sides of our family. My parents came down for the weekend and we also drove up to see Brian's parents. We did swimming, yard work, parks, cleaning the cars the list goes on and on. I would love to show you everything we did and the good time and smiles had by all but I don't have any pictures!

We were exhausted after our visits and were lucky that our neighbors invited us over for some pool time, BBQ and watching Fireworks for the 4th. Here is Kylie who got out of the pool long enough to play with her first sparklers. She thought they were really awesome but HOT! She really enjoyed the "professional" fireworks we could see in various directions and even stayed up to 10pm enjoying the night.

We hope you had a great 4th of July with your friends and family!