Charis's 4th Birthday!

I am finally getting Charis' Birthday pictures posted before the month ends! Whew! Her birthday was February 13th and it snowed on her birthday!!! So she had to have her party the next do so that the Grandparents could get in town. (They got lots of snow too!) She wanted a princess party...

This was her breakfast pancake that she got on the morning of her birthday. This is a little tradition of ours. We made the plate when she was a baby...

We gave her a guitar for her birthday. She loves playing Jaycie's guitar and now they can play together. (Yes, they do play together now and sing really loud and very off key!!)

Charis is performing for us...

Phud would not let me make the cake this year because I was so pregnant. So Charis got to go to Wal-mart and pick out her own cake. And of course she picked the princess cake. :-)

Tooth #3

Last night we put Jaycie to bed and about 30 min. later she appeared downstairs and told us that her tooth was about to come out. It has been loose for a LONG time. We just told her to leave it alone because she was not allowed to keep getting so big.... :-) Well as you can see, it came out very easily! This is her third tooth that she has lost (but the first top tooth). So after all the excitement, she quickly went to bed with her tooth under her pillow so the tooth fairy could come. (She gave the tooth fairy her request before she went to bed. LOL) So the tooth fairy headed to walmart (because the dollar store was closed) and got her a dollar toy (a microphone-which was requested). Then he wrote a series of clues and put them all throughout the house to send her on a treasure hunt when she woke up. When she woke up we could hear her going throughout the house finding her clues to the hidden treasure. Her 5th clue was at Phud's bedside table and she had to give him a big kiss and tell him she was awake looking for her surprise (so we could watch the rest of the hunt). It was so much fun!

Aiden's 2nd Birthday

Well it is the end of january so I figured I better post Aiden's Birthday pictures! His Birthday was January 9th so yes, I am way behind!!! As you will see, he had such an awesome time!

Here he is blowing out his breakfast candle that sings Happy Birthday to you over and over... (He got a yummy egg and cheese sandwhich this year.)

He loves Curious George so I made him a curious george cake this year. He was so excited about his cakes!

He couldn't wait to taste the icing!

He thinks he is so sneaky getting a taste of the icing.

Here Charis is helping to make the cake.

Here are my two little cooks.

Aiden loved getting to help make his birthday cake!!

This present was wrapped twice! He unwrapped it when he woke up that morning before we even got up!

Finished Product

Here is the finished product of the Christmas Tree. We had to wait and put the lights and decorations on after Aiden went to bed. So the next morning he was so excited and had to investigate it all!!!

The Christmas Tree - 2009

Yesterday (Friday), we went to the Christmas tree farm to cut down our tree. It was freezing cold! It was 39 degrees when we first got there, but it warmed up some by the time we went home. These are some pictures from our adventure.

Tooth number two!

Jaycie lost her second tooth last night. So the tooth fairy got to come again!! She requested that the tooth fairy put her prize in a special place and leave her a note to tell her where it was. (That was what we did last time.) So she went to bed and put her tooth under the pillow. We left a note and put her bouncy ball and blow pop (which she requested) in the special place (on Phud's bedside table.) So at 5 AM, Jaycie entered our room following the clues on her note, looking for her prize!!!!! I told her to go to bed and come back at 7 but she said she was too excited and couldn't sleep until she found it. So I let her continue... She was so excited about her ball and ran back upstairs and put her prize in the bed and supposedly went back to sleep. So once again, the tooth fairy's visit was a success.

If you look close you can see the permanent tooth coming in where she lost her first tooth.

Hawk

About a month ago Phud told me to run up stairs and give the girls a bath while he cut Aiden's hair. Well I did and when I finished Aiden ran into the room with a huge smile and sporting a huge mohawk. He was so excited. Every morning he would get up and point to his head and say "Hawk" because he wanted a mohawk. He just recently got it cut off after a month of having it and still asks sometimes for us to give him a hawk. (So we just put the hair gel in his hair and he thinks he has a hawk...) Here are some pictures of the sweet hawk!