Another Playdate

Allie and I attended another play date at Jumpin' Joeys recently to celebrate her friend Lillian getting her hip dysplasia spica cast off. It was a great time with many friends and a wonderful thing to celebrate! Allie had a blast. She loves running around, throwing the balls and climbing on all of the mats. I wish there was a similar place closer to our house so she could burn off some of her energy more often!

Jackpot!

In order to change Allie's sheets, I have to pull her bed out from the wall. After doing so, I finally solved the recent case of the missing binkies. Apparently Allie likes to hide her binkies between her crib and the wall. When I moved the crib, I found 8-10 binkies back there. Allie was in heaven with all of the binkies! She picked them up and carried them all around for the rest of the evening. What can I say, she's easily amused.

Happy 3rd Birthday Izzy!

We headed to Chuck E Cheese to celebrate our beautiful Goddaughter, Izzy's, 3rd Birthday! We had a great time but that place is total chaos. I don't know how my parents took us to Chuck E Cheese as often as they did without going insane. It was cute to see the kids hanging out together and enjoying themselves and Izzy seemed to have a great birthday so it was totally worth it! Happy 3rd Birthday Izzy! We love you!

I'm sure she'll actually be driving before I know it!

Playing another game.

NOT a fan of the swing ride.

Enjoying some food with the other party guests.

The beautiful birthday girl!

Blowing out her candles.

Allie enjoying some of the birthday cake.

Allie enjoyed the show...from a safe distance.

Driving the car with Chuck E Cheese!

Hanging out with the boys during one of the shows.

Dancing Queen

Allie LOVES to dance. She dances to commercials, in the car and even at stores that play music over the loudspeaker. The genre of the music doesn't seem to matter. She just dances away and then claps and yells, "YAY!" at the end of the song.

I took her to one of Loren's Show Choir competitions recently. The child was in heaven! There was music and dancing...what more could a girl ask for? She danced during the performance and even danced in the lobby when they re-played the performances on a television. We have no idea where she gets her rhythm being that Nick and I are both horrible dancers.

Cheese!

Allie's top teeth are growing in kind of crazy. Her front two teeth don't appear to be descending completely leaving her other top teeth much longer. It looks kind of funky but adorable at the same time. She's at that age where she does big cheesy grins too. She kind of tilts her head back, opens her mouth very wide and says, "Cheeeeeeeesssssssseeeee." She's such a ham.

Caught red-handed trying to hide Daddy's phone in her Dora car. She loves this car and rides it all over the house. Unfortunately, she also loves to hide things in it. Normally I don't mind but I've found several cups of milk in there that are disgusting! Now, it's the first place I look when I can't find something.

SNOW!

We finally got a decent snow fall back in January. Nick and I decided that we should take Allie out to experience it. We bundled her up and headed outside. Lets just say she was not.a.fan. She cried and cried at first. The fact that she fell over and couldn't get back up probably didn't help. She finally warmed up to the idea and seemed to enjoy herself a little bit. We were slightly un-prepared and didn't have a sled so we decided to improvise with the pink car instead. A few runs down the hill on the side of our house and she was a much happier camper. She even cracked a few smiles!

We were having a great time right up until I suggested we make snow angels. Mark that idea down as a big Mommy FAIL. She cried the whole time, ending our fun times in the snow. Oh well, maybe next year!

This Is Why We Don't Have Pets

Things have been crazy this past week. Nick has been working 16 hour days, my tutu business has been super-busy and I had to have my car repaired...all of which left little to no time for blogging. But, I'm back now with some adorable pictures of Miss Allie!

Allie and I headed to Kohls in search of a 2009 picture ornament to put our family picture in. Of course, I waited until after Christmas and had not been able to find one anywhere. While browsing the clearance ornaments at Kohls, Allie came across a yellow lab dog ornament. It was actually pretty cute and she refused to put it down. Knowing it was 90% off, I figured it couldn't be too expensive so I gave in to buy it.

The entire way to the checkout, Allie was helping the dog "walk" on the tile and was barking. I was dying laughing as were the various customers that stopped to see what she was doing.

After nearly 10 minutes of walking to the register, we finally made it. They had to do a price check on the ornament since there was no tag. Allie used this opportunity to give her dog a ride around the store in a cart. She actually did pretty well pushing it on her own.

I was pretty proud of myself for not allowing my dislike of dogs to interfere with purchasing her something she really wanted. I can't say that the same would have happened if it were a real dog, but hey, baby steps, right?

We headed for the parking lot with Allie proudly carrying her new dog. We made it to the car and I lifted her up to put her in the car seat. Just as I did this, I heard glass breaking. I looked down to find that she had dropped her beloved dog and it had shattered into about 30 pieces. I quickly diverted her attention to a book we had in the car and she never asked for the dog again. It just solidified my decision that we are not cut out to be pet owners. If we couldn't care for and protect a dog ornament, how in the world would we protect a real dog? At least she got to enjoy the dog for almost half an hour.