Belle's Birthday

Okay, so nearly a month after it happened, here is the pictures from Anabelle's birthday. We spent the day at my parent's house. That evening, my mom, sister, and Belle and I went to my cousin Carrie's baby shower. Belle loved it. She spent the hole time being a "big girl" playing with my brother's girls that are 11 and 9. She had a ball. Then, the girls rode home with us and we all sang loudly in the car, the whole way home. My poor mom probably got a huge headache. After we got home, we ate Taco soup, one Anabelle's favorite meals. Then we had cupcakes.

The first present Belle opened was from my brother's family. It was a beautiful Easter dress. As soon as Belle saw it, she literally grabbed it and started squealing and dancing around. She ran around the kitchen hugging it. I have never seen her act like that. It was so cute.

Next she opened a little baby that is perfect to take to church. She loved that she could take the dress off. She just needed help putting it back on. Here is her cousin, Brooke, helping her get the doll out of the box.

The last present she opened was a big baby doll (that is not shown in the picture) that cries, says mamma, giggles, babbles, drinks from a bottle, then burbs, and finally snores. The eyes move and it is a little creepy, but Anabelle loves it. She carried that baby around everywhere she went all that night and for several weeks afterwords. It was really cute. She is going to be such a sweet mom someday.

My gift to Anabelle is some blankets that I am making for her babies, and a bed as well. I will post pictures of them when I finish them. I am super excited to see the blankets all finished. As soon as I get my house all cleaned up, I will finish the blankets. I just need to put the backs on and sew a few more things on them. Unfortunately, the bed is far from being done.

Belle personally celebrated all week long by not taking any of her naps. I was very concerned that she had already outgrown her naps, which I was not ready to let go of. Thankfully, the next week she got right back to her old schedule and I was able to keep my sanity, sort of.

Banister, as in sliding down the

Who knew there was such a fun little playground at the mall. I totally forgot it was there. I could have been going here all winter. Thank you Analisa for reminding me about this fun little play area at the mall. The kids had so much fun. We went a few times in March. Here are pictures of the kids sliding down the slide.

P.S. there were no banisters involved in the making of this blog. I just stole the quote from one of my favorite movies, What's up Doc.

Trains, trains, trains

Okay, I am going to play catch-up on here over the next few days. A few things happened in March and rather than do one huge update, I'm going to drag it out over a few days. Here is first event that happened in March. We went to the model train show at the Union Station with my dad and nephew. Beckett had a ball. It was pretty cool. I can totally see how this can be a hobby for some people. There are so many little pieces and parts and you can create all kinds of scenes and have the train do all kinds of things. It was amazing.

Anabelle had a wonderful time too. She got to be with her favorite person, Grandpa.

They have big trains that you can climb up into outside of the Union Station too, so Matt and Beckett climbed in and Beckett got to be a conductor for a little bit. He loved it!

Looking at trains from a safe distance, you don't realize how massive they really are. Look how huge just the wheeles are!

Confession

So, yesterday I was watching one of the only 3 TV shows I watch, Chuck, and at the end of the episode, Chuck and his love interest kiss. It was a very intimate moment and I found myself embarrassed to watch them kissing. Not because that is gross (Oooo, their kissing), but because I wanted to give them privacy in "their moment". Isn't that weird that even fictional PDA makes me feel awkward?