Our Fabulous 4 Year Old

I know every mom thinks their child is pretty amazing, and I guess I'm no different :)

We had a great day celebrating Sydney's 4th birthday today. Special "S" cookies to take to Miss Suzannes for the day, Red Robin for dinner (a big treat for a tuesday), Toys R Us to choose a special present and Dairy Queen for one final ice cream treat.

And Daniel was even a really good sport about all the focus on Sydney, so he got to choose a spider ball at Toys R Us for good measure..

I think I have more fun celebrating my kids birthdays than celebrating my own.

Here's our happy girl - She makes all our days just a little brighter with her beautiful smile. We're so lucky to have her..

I came back to add one more picture :) The bean bag chair is a hit!

Happy Mother's Day!

So I'm not sure why, but I decided to give Daniel a try in underpants this weekend. Which basically meant I spent a lot of the weekend either in the bathroom or washing lots of pairs of little boys underpants :)

While the weekend wasn't a whopping success, it wasn't a total failure. I think with a few more weeks of work, we'll be able to try underpants again.

Until then, I'm super proud of my little guy for at least being a willing participant. It's a lot of hard work on mom's part and on his part. And it WILL pay off in the end...

A pre-mother's day story..

So sydney asked me tonight why I was sad that her and Daniel don't sleep in cribs anymore. I said that it meant they weren't babies anymore and that made me sad.

She asked why I'd be sad that she wasn't a baby anymore and I said that as kids get older and aren't babies anymore, they don't need their moms as much...

She looked at me with surprise and said, "But mommy, of course we still need you.....We need you to wash the dishes..."

Yup, that about sums it up :)

Easter, 2011

We had a wonderful weekend - The Plonas came for kielbasa fest and easter egg hunting on saturday, and then the Joneses came for easter ham and MORE easter egg hunting today...

We're really lucky to have such great family. We had a great time and are totally wiped out. Thank goodness I work from home on mondays!

Plona Cousins - 2011

Daniel hunting for eggs

Sydney's easter outfit choice. Easter..Princess.... kind of the same thing. (Thanks to Aunt Jennie for the pick flower headband - she's already a fan!)

My spring cupcake project for the weekend :)

Not a baby anymore...

So we went to Ikea to get Daniel's big boy bed today. And this morning, he said he didn't want to sleep in a big boy bed, he wanted to sleep in his regular bed. I didn't push it..

So we got it, and went ahead and set it up, so that he could get used to it being there and eventually be ready to sleep in it..I figured if it took a few weeks, that'd be no big deal. There was plenty of time.

Suddenly he announced that yes, he DID want to sleep in his big boy bed tonight. Yes he did...

And so he is. He got out of bed once. And was told that if he got out of bed again, he'd have to go back to sleeping in his crib..

I guess that was enough. We haven't heard another peep from him..

He's officially not a baby anymore.

Tomorrow the crib will come down and maybe next weekend we'll list it on craigslist to move it along.

I'm sadder than I thought I'd be.

I'm really sad..

A Few Daniel Moments In Time...

1) Daniel (hollering from the bathroom where he's sitting on the potty): "Mommmmmmmmmmm.........I need a book"

2) Mom: Daniel, what's your favorite fruit?

Daniel: Dragons.......pink ones.......

3) Going binky-less for the first time tonight. It might be an epic fail, or it might be that my baby is really growing up...

4) While going to bed, he requests I sing him "Somewhere over the rainbow" and he chimes in with me on a few words. I love it that he's started to like music and singing...

Florida - 2011

We had a GREAT time in Florida - It was a little colder than we planned, but we got some great beach time and it was STILL way warmer than it was at home, which is all that matters, right?

Daniel at the beach:

Sydney at the beach:

Sydney playing ball with the dolphins at Marineland:

Also at marineland - sums up the kids perfectly - Sydney is our willing poser, Daniel, not so much :)