AnnaBeth is 3!!

Much to my disbelief, AnnaBeth is 3 years old today! Before breakfast, she had some tickle time with Daddy in our bed. Then she had some specially decorated pancakes for breakfast.

 AnnaBeth had her 3 year checkup today. She weighs 29 lbs (10%) and is 3 ft tall (26%). I'm not totally sure the height is dead on because she was afraid to stand against the wall to be measured. She's totally healthy and is ahead of the game with speaking. Her doctor asked her a bunch of questions which she answered all of them correctly. My favorite was "AnnaBeth do you know how to brush your teeth?" "Mommy brushes them for me."

 On our way home from the doctor, we stopped at the grocery store because I wanted her to have a special birthday balloon. She picked Lightning McQueen and then we headed to the bakery where they had giant cupcakes! She picked the one with pink frosting.

 Then we met Daddy and Jim at Joe's BBQ for lunch. Since it's her birthday, she got to eat for free! Here she has taken the top bun of her chicken sandwich and is stabbing pieces off of it to eat. She did end up eating some of the delicious mac and cheese and some of the chicken.

 Watching the little birds take a bath in a puddle

 Found a fly to pester

 After lunch we headed to the shop where she was super surprised to find her presents in the office!

 The festivities were a bit too much for Mason

 A play market stand with play food and play money included

 A 90 piece set of play food

 A fun lego set

 A flower patch sprinkler thing to attach to the hose

 Picking up the paper

 The cupcake!

 Waiting for Daddy to light the candles

 Happily watching the video Tia Yaya sent to my phone of her singing happy birthday to AnnaBeth

 Not a single bite of cupcake....all she ate was frosting

 "Get in my belly sock!"

 We are going the leave the market stand and play food at the shop for her to always have something to play with there

 Notice the shop dirt around her eyes?

This sums it up pretty well...our girl is a birthday champ!!

This is sort of going to be a birthday celebration week. Tomorrow the kids and I are meeting my parents and Geli at the science center and then we are going to the zoo with them on Wednesday. Also on Wednesday we will be going to Kent's parents like we do every Wednesday and we will have pizza and ice cream cake before her cousins go to Awana. And then on Saturday we're having her party here at our house with my parents, Geli and Mike, Kent's parents as well as Tammi and Rene. 

Mason is 5 months old!!

I can't believe my boy is 5 months old!! On Thursday he finally rolled over and yesterday he rolled over twice but hasn't done it since. Maybe he's just not a big fan of it. Or maybe he hasn't quite figured out that he can go places if he rolls (other than his scooting around in a circle while on his tummy). He is still a very happy and smiley baby and sometimes when I kiss his cheeks and neck he ends up screaming because it tickles too much. He starts out laughing and that turns to screams :) We haven't made any real progress with solids. The last two times I tried he ended up gagging and was fussy and still needs more practice with using his tongue to push it to the back of his mouth so he can swallow it rather than spit it out.

Rufus Cuteness

Papa is Silly

Last week (Feb 29th) we were over at Nana and Papa's like we are every Wednesday afternoon and Mason got to have some silly time with Papa!

These two are DEFINITELY related :)

The Thinker

On Monday (the 5th) afternoon when Mason woke from his nap after about 30 minutes, I took him to our bed and nursed him back to sleep. He slept another couple of hours in our bed and one of the times I went to check on him, I found him like this:

I'm pretty sure he was dreaming about boobies and was trying to decide which one he should eat from first :)

A Boy and His Boof

To say that Bondo loves his brother and sister would be an understatement. He tries to snuggle and kiss them as often as possible. A couple of mornings this week I had brought Mason to our bed sometime after 6am. I've been doing this when he wakes between 6am and 7am to eat so we can snuggle during our last hour or two of sleep before getting up for the day. Bondo also feels he should be included in the snuggling.