Happy Birthday PaPa

This weekend we celebrated PaPa's 50th birthday. When asked how it felt to be turning 50, he said "It just feels like I am another day older."



The girls enjoyed spending time with family, singing Happy Birthday to Papa, eating lots of yummy food, and of course trying out the cake!

Happy Birthday PaPa!

Favorite Toys

Kaylee and Alyssa have new favorite toys. Is it a Barbie or a purse, you may ask? No, it is a dump truck and motorcycle that they stole from their cousins.

And even better, Daddy has Alyssa announcing that she is going to ride motorcycles when she grows up.

That would just be a dream come true for Mommy! :-)

I Love You More

We recently watched a cartoon where the characters were arguing over who loved who more. We hadn't realized how much the girls paid attention but they remembered the "I love you more" phrase from the cartoon and that is the new thing at our house.

Here is a conversation from the other night:

Alyssa: "I love you Daddy."
Daddy: "I love you too."
Alyssa: "I love you more!"

And after listening to them go back and forth a few times I decided to jump in:

Mommy: "No, I love you more!"
Alyssa: "I love you more."
Mommy: "I love you to the moon."
Alyssa: "I love you to the moon MORE!"

We have continued this conversation many times with both Kaylee and Alyssa and in many different ways. I guess the consensus is that there is a tie in our house with how much we love each other.

But, Mommy still thinks I win!!

I love you girls. More and more everyday!

Mommy

Riding Bikes and Pushing Carts

Dancing with Elmo Live

Visiting with Grammy

Dresses

Kaylee and Alyssa just LOVE wearing dresses. They normally give Daddy a hard time getting dressed in the morning before daycare if they don't like their outfits but they never do when they see that they get to wear their pretty dresses. Of course, they don't mind running right into the dirt while wearing those pretty dresses either!

Pretty dresses

Ta-Daa!

Mama and Alyssa

Doesn't Kaylee look thrilled?

Little Performers

So, it seems we have a future singer and cheerleader in the family.

Hopefully they are a bit more talented than Mommy in those areas!

All Dressed Up

The girls received tons of Princess stuff for Christmas and are having a blast dressing up in the dresses and heels (scary!).

Baby Aiden - 24 Weeks

We went for a repeat sonogram this past Monday because they were not able to get certain measurements last time around. It was neat to be able to see the baby again and he was as busy as ever. The sono tech was trying to get pictures of his face but he decided it would be fun to cover up his face with both his legs and hands. :-)

She was able to get all the measurements she needed (after some rolling around on my part) so we probably won't be seeing the little guy again until he makes his appearance in mid-April. He looks good though, weighing around 1 pound, 9 ounces. These pictures were scanned in so they are kind of blurry but you can get the general idea.

Merry Christmas!

Santa came and brought lots of goodies for the girls. The top two favorites were the kitchen set and the Dora vanity. The girls ran right to those 2 toys and we could barely pull them away to open their other gifts.
They also got really excited over their ball pit and Mommy and Daddy have been busy picking up balls from every corner of the house ever since.


Alyssa enjoyed ripping open her gifts but Kaylee took a little more coaxing to pull her away from the kitchen.



The celebration continued as we visited both sides of the family for lunch/dinner and gift exchanges. The girls received so many nice gifts.

And we took a few family photos but we never did get a full family shot.

It was a great holiday weekend and we all enjoyed relaxing and visiting with other family/friends throughout the weekend. It seemed like the girls never finished opening gifts.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Thank you to everyone for the wonderful gifts. The girls send lots of hugs and kisses!