Birthday Girl-Part Two

On Tuesday we had Lydia's Birthday Party. Our kids get to have a "friend party" every other year or so. Lydia has been planning this Princess Theme for several months.

This was Lydia's first Princess Party, and mine too! It is pretty fun putting up pink streamers and playing "Freeze Dance" to "Someday My Prince Will Come!"

This is a picture of Lydia putting princess stickers on her party crown. I just can't resist putting pictures on here that show how big and beautiful Lydia's eyes are.

Here are some of Lydia's friends and a couple cousins. Don't they all look darling?

Do you see the big smear on the right side? One of the purple flowers is pretty mangled, too. We have Danny to thank for that...and we are glad he was there to catch the cake before it fell all the way on the floor. You see, when all of the brothers got home from school, Lydia had thought it would be a good idea to pull the cake out of the fridge to show it off. Good save Danny! :)

Doesn't Lydia just look so blissfully happy?

All of the girls (and Ryan who insisted that he dress up like a prince-and really ended up looking more like Peter Pan) got to have crackers, cheese, meat cubes and a strawberry. We colored Glitter Princess Color Wonder pages and jumped on the trampoline. Everyone went home with a princess tattoo, a princess wand and a bottle of bubbles. A magical time was had by all.

Happy Third Birthday Lydia!!

Fondue Feast

Every year on Valentine's Day we do Fondue. This year was really nice because on a Sunday we didn't have other events competing for time. We got to spend time as a Family. We had the cheese course first. After a little while we did the Chocolate Fondue dipped in all kinds of yummy goodies. In the evening we watched "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" and snacked on air popped popcorn. The Air Popper was a Valentine's gift for our whole family. Both of the little ones think that it is a real novelty!!

All Ready for the Fondue Feast

In this case "V" is for Valentine's Day, not peace. :) Happy Valentine's Day to You!

Birthday Girl-Part One

Friday was Lydia's birthday. We had a little celebration with our family. Her Princess Party with some of her friends is tomorrow. Hope you enjoy the pictures of her special day!

Hey everybody!! It's my birthday! :)

I love the look on Lydia's face in this one.

...and she huffed and she puffed...



Make a Wish Lyddie May.



This pretend lipstick was one of Lydia's favorite gifts.



The last present from Mike and I was out in the garage.

Lydia is still trying to figure out how to get her Princess Trike to go forward instead of backward. She loves putting her new princess Barbies in the bucket in the back.

Lydia hand picked these pink and purple cupcakes. Yum!

Lydia is sure getting to be a big girl. Hooray for being three!

...Stay Tuned for pictures of Lydia's Princess Party.

Water Babies

Several times a day I start to hear the water running in our downstairs bathroom. I will usually find this little gal getting to work. She loves playing in the water! She can curl her little toes over the top of the closed cupboard door and then hoist herself onto the counter. From there she can plug the sink drain and start the fun!





To her it doesn't really matter what little items she has to "wash" or "give a bath" or "take swimming." Anything will do. Sometimes we will just be going about our daily activities and Lydia will say, "Oh Mom! I have a great idea! I should wash my hands!" I always reply, "That does sound like a great idea!" And then the fun begins again. Even though it doesn't contain all of the splashing overflow, I've never been so grateful for that little hole at the back of the sink.






Usually we rotate through 2 or 3 dresses a day. We just try to rotate them because they are not really dirty, just soaking wet. After a dress has hung dry, then it is ready to take the place of the next dress that is soon to be soaked. Today I found that Lydia's fun had flowed into the family room where she had dumped several cups of water all over the leather ottoman. Lydia's little water obsession has got me feeling a real sense of familiarity. That is because another one of my kiddos was obsessed with water too.





This is Danny just a couple months older than what Lydia is now. When he was this age, he loved playing in the water! On one occasion he dumped an entire water bottle over our old (fake) leather couch. Because the cushions were a bit saggy the water had begun to pool. He could not resist splashing and puddle jumping up and down the couch. On another occasion I had come upstairs to find Danny running back and forth, and back and forth between a running faucet and a pair of my brand new shoes. He was holding a cup and kept dumping the water into the shoes as fast as his little legs could carry him. Water logged shoes were not really funny at the time, but I can look back and laugh now.

This picture was taken last night at Danny's Spacewood Derby. Danny is sitting right in the middle. Danny's grown up quite a bit don't you think?

This year our ward decided to do Rockets instead of Cars. Danny and his Dad came up with the idea of using a Sprite label and shaping the rocket like a pop bottle. Danny's rocket won the award for "Sweetest Rocket." Good job Danny! Thanks to Dad and Grandpa Dildine for all of their help!

I sure do love my Water Babies!