January 26 - February 1 : Birthday Week!

Last year we missed kids club during birthday week (I was just admitted to the hospital).  So excited we could make it this year!  And also excited that Charlie and Adella both got on stage without too much pushing (Adella has been EXTREMELY shy and clingy in public lately, like really really bad!)

After we went to Trader Joe's and I let them push the cart!  First time and they were so excited!  Only bumped into a few people and only tipped the whole cart over one time.  Whoops!

And then the day!  The day we woke up to 3 year olds!

Of course we had to spend it at the park, where else!

After that Grandma came over bringing presents!

She even stayed long enough to read a book before nap time.

Adella found a home for her dolly right away in the shopping cartt!

That night we opened presents with Grandma and Grandpa Heck

And when Nora came over the next day they had to show her all their new fun stuff!

This is a dancing game, but they also love to lay on it and watch the numbers light up.  Silly things.

 

This kid is crazy, enough said. 

My happy girl!

Birthday Party!  We had a pirates and princess party!

Adella is not smiling because there were already lots of people here.  Shy much?

I made her dolly a matching princess dress!

I lost count, but there were somewhere around 25 kids and 20ish adults!  Our house was crazy crazy!

We finished the day getting our free birthday meals at Red Robin, capped off with ice cream!   

Just a funny Sunday Shot!

And we woke up to Fog.  Super weird.  It was much thicker than this, like can't hardly drive thick!

January 19-25

Grandma and Grandpa Button came over again to help with Bookshelves on Monday and brought Great Grandma and Grandpa Button with them.  They got a big kick out of riding on grandpa's walker!

More cooking class!  We made their favorite, smoothies!   These were not quite as healthy as the ones we make but they were super yummy!

Charlie had two kinds of dipping sauce for his nuggets, he deemed then Yellow like the Suns and Red like the Cardinals!  Kid kills me!

We went to the zoo this week, finally broke down and bought a membership!  The weather was perfect and we loved it!  I even managed to figure out how to fold up the triple so we could get it in the van!   We were quite a spectacle with this thing and got TONS of comments!

Even this one had a great time!

And I can't hardly believe that 1 year ago I was admitted to the hospital when this one tried to scare us with an extra extra early arrival.  Thank goodness for prayers and modern medicine that kept her put for 5 more weeks!

January 12-18

I made Adella a nightgown, her first!   She loved it, though was confused at first why she would wear a dress to bed.  She then deemed it dress jamies, so all was good!

Painting with Nora (who was actually more interested in snacks)

Charlie was helping Adella with a puzzle by handing her pieces.   

All ready for story time!

Charlie was in the laundry basket 'fishing'.  I think we need to get these kids some play poles because they've been caught fishing off the back of the couch too!  

All three playing with the bead maze!  

Cooking class!  We made lots of yummy food people and animals!  This was an apple robot!

Grandma and Grandpa Button and Uncle Isaac, Aunt Julie, Bristol and Nate came over to help put in shelves.  These kids played pretty well together and had lots of fun!   That's a lot of Buttons in one chair!

Grandma read books to try to get them to go to sleep.  Didn't work!

Before the cousins got there, they had lots of fun playing outside

Sorry, super bad lighting, Charlie had to run inside to get his tools to work on the roof of his truck.  It seems Grandpa was on the roof of the shed working so Charlie decided he needed to do the same!

Adella had to work too!

I love when they give each other rides in the back of the truck!

On Sunday we played Candyland for the first time!  Charlie won in 3 spins.  Seriously, lucky duck!