birthday and sickness...

~February 10, 2010~

Ok, so here's Hunt's birthday day -February 3rd-! He had school that day, but a field trip was planned. The class went to Let's Jump, a jump house place in Keller. All the kids had a blast! They enjoyed pizza and we brought cupcakes to celebrate his special day!

Here are the cupcakes. I made french vanilla cupcakes with butter cream icing. I sprinkled chocolate sprinkles on top to look like mud/dirt and stuck in Monster truck and race flag picks I made. They turned out cute and tasted yummy!
Cupcakes before adding the picks

Here are the picks I made

Cupcakes finished



And here are photos of Hunt at Let's Jump!

In line waiting to get on the bus/van

Walking out to the van

Loading up in his car seat

On our way

There it is!

Waiting to go in

The fun...








Ms. Rebeca gave Hunt a birthday hat to wear.

Yay for pizza!

Getting ready to sing Happy Birthday to Hunt

Enjoying cupcakes!


Ms Rebeca trying to clean Hunt's dirty little face


And finally one last cupcake before getting ready for bed!


It was a busy day, but it didn't end there...

When the three of us got home daddy wasn't feeling well. He decided to stay home and go to the Dr and asked me if I wanted him to make an appointment for me to. Well, since I had been sick for over a week...AGAIN...I decided to go to. So an hour and a half later the 4 of us were at Care Now. Me having strep(oh great!) and hubs with sinusitis and upper respiratory junk it was a good thing we went. And luckily Emma was still on her meds from the ear infection which kept her from getting sick from mama!...UGH!!!! Luckily Hunt stayed well through through it all. What a way to spend part of your birthday huh?! And with his party coming up that Saturday...thank goodness!!!

You're 5 now Hunt...what's been going on with you?...
*your favorite toys are trucks, cars, tractors, semis and trailers and animals
*you've been into playing with Transformers, Monster Trucks and Legos recently
*you love playing with GI Joes and army stuff
*and you like cowboys stuff as well...you LOVE guns!
*you love pre-school(even though you get too excited and need to calm down sometimes)
*you are So smart and at times a little too smart for your britches
*you like to play video games(what a shock)especially the shooting Wii one with daddy and the driving truck ones. you like to play the Nintendo DS to, but we only let you play them on the weekends
*your favorite movies right now are Ice Age, Star Wars, Cars...really any movie. you love to watch movies(we don't watch regular tv shows)
*your favorite food is pizza
*you've read lots of 3 letter words(which we need to work on since it's been a while)
*you can spell and write your full name
*you can write all your letters and most of the numbers up to 30s and with help lots more
*you wear size 5-6(for length) pants and 5-6 shirt
*you are lean and a little tall for your age(compared to the other boys in your class)
*you love books and enjoy all the ones with animals and trucks the best
*your favorite color is green and blue(you said both of them)
*you know most of your address(I didn't teach you the address number yet so you don't know it; I didn't want you to be able to tell a stranger your entire address :)
you know the street name, town and state
*you know both your parents full names

Next I'll be posting photos of Hunt's Birthday Party at Putt Putt...

4 months...

~February 5, 2010~

Emma's now 4 months old!

You're growing and learning new things all the time!


Emma...what have you been up to?...
.you have been holding small objects
.you grab things that are held out close in front of you
.you switched a small person object from one hand to the other once
.you have rolled over several times from your belly to your back and are getting good at it
.you've pushed yourself up from your arms to your hands while on your tummy twice now
.getting really chunky; I SO love the rolls on your leggies and your rubber band wrists...hahaha
.your eyes still look a dark greyish-blue-hazel
.your hair is a light to medium brown, but in the light it has a blondish redish coloring
.you wear a size 2 diaper
.and you are wearing 3-6 and sometimes 6-9 months clothing
.you were 14.4 pounds on January 27
.you had your first sickness...an ear infection(not a good thing)the end of January
.you have a loud little screaming voice when you get upset
.you try to put everything into your mouth and you have a mean bite when our finger end up there..Ha! this may be early teething
.you wake up a few times through the night to eat a little and then fall back to sleep
.your 4 month appt is Feb 16th with Bubba's(fun times!)

Wow look at all you can do!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUBBA!!!

My oldest babe turns 5 today! 5!

Where has the time gone?!
(sniff, sniff)

Wasn't it just yesterday that you were entering this world?! On the day I entered the world years before. A special thing to happen and so unexpected. And then you turned 1, next 2, then 3, then 4...and now 5! I can't imagine life without you! You are such a loving and caring little man! You are the most handsome little boy alive and SO smart!...sometimes too smart!!! HA! But I love you So very very much and know that you are a very special person to daddy and I especially!
With the longest "snuffleupagus" lashes ever!
{"Eat you up I love you so!" and "Love you more!"}

I'll post photos of Hunt's Birthday day soon. Oh and fill you in on how some of our Birthday was spent at the Care Now clinic for a sick mama and daddy...oh yea, joy!!!

Happy Birthday Hunt!
All my love forever and always!

Mommy

~January 30, 2010~

Alrighty....let's see...here's what's been going on with our little family this month...not a whole lot...

Went to the Dallas Safari show early January with some friends Ariana and Mike. Hunt loves going and looking at all the hunting stuff and mounts.

Also early January we had our gift exchange with our great friends Stephanie, Nick and James. Hunt got a Ben 10 movie and watch thing. He likes watching it and has been wearing the watch on and off since then. Em got a cute bull frog book. She just kept looking at it and loved it. I got a cool Aero Garden. I can't wait to try it!





On the 11th the kiddos and I had a nice lunch with grandma at the golden arches. Of course Hunt never complains about going there. I didn't tell Hunt that we were going or that we were meeting grandma there so it was a surprise. He was excited to see her and screamed some when he saw her coming over to help him out of the Tahoe. It was cute. He later told me..."I guess grandma wanted McDonald's to"! Such a cutie! I had to tell him that I knew she was coming, but didn't want to tell him because I wanted it to be a surprise.

The 16th we went to the Fort Worth Stock Show with our great friends Kelley, Ken, Stephanie, Nick and James. We had a nice time and the weather wasn't bad at all! Which if you live here in Fort Worth is good news! It is ALWAYS very cold and possibly ice and rain during the Stock Show. But it was a nice sunny day and not too cold. Hunt started to have a melt down towards the end though, so I'm sure our friends will never want to go anywhere with us again! So friends, if you still read my blog, and are reading this we are so sorry for his behavior! And hope that you will still want to hang out with our crazy, heathen, whiny bunch again!
Anywhoo-here are some of the photos I took of our day.

Hunt checking out the goats.

A lady feeding a baby goat.

Looking at more goats.

Awww...look at that kid getting mama milk!

And these piglets were the cutest!!!

Baby chicks!


Whose this hot guy?

I loved this one!

This rooster's comb was big, but it doesn't look that big from this pic.

Hunt checks out the yard bird!

So handsome!!!

More cute piggies.

Hunt and James.

Hunt playing at the toy tractor booth.



The guy folk enjoying an adult beverage! Nick, Hubs and Ken.

Hunt and daddy and cows.

Ooops...looks like Hunt is getting a talking to.

Because Stock Show water fountain water taste SOOOO good!!!!

And of course Hunt LOVED this mini milk hauler truck!

Hunt watching a milking demonstration.

Emma decides to wake up and take in the sights at the stock show.

Emma and her Daddy!

OHHHHHH girls...I feel you!!!! Ok well maybe not completely, but I know somewhat how you must feel!!!!



Tractor time!

Emma and daddy loving on a horse.

Hunt feeding a horse.


Here are just cute kid pics...


Look at this look! What a toot!


My baby boy turns 5 next Wednesday on February 3rd! F-I-V-E! 5! Good gracious! Already 5! Oh why does time have to fly by SO fast?!!! (sniff sniff)
He has decided to have a Monster Truck theme birthday party. And we're having it at Putt Putt on the 6th. So we've got all the plates, napkins, cups and goodies that we need. And I've almost got the favor/goody bags ready. I'll have to post a pic of the bags and favors. Hunt wanted to invite his friends from school and of course our family to.
We've ordered a cake from one of our favorite bakeries, Texas Star Bakery. Their cakes are so AWESOME! And they do such a good job on the decorating to. This time the cake is suppose to look like a Monster Truck arena with 2 monster trucks and some crunched cars. I can't wait to see it!
Some gifts that he will be getting are talking woody and buzz dolls, legos, a couple of monster trucks on the cake and one wrapped up and army men. These are things that he said that he wants. And maybe a cash register. He has been mentioning it alot. AND...Daddy got Hunt some tickets to the Monster Jams show! He's going to love it! He'll get to have a guys day with daddy! I'm not however looking forward to the daily task of having to tell him that today is not the day or not yet. Because I know he will be asking us EVERY DAY until the 27th of February, when they go.
Wednesday I plan on bringing cupcakes to his school to celebrate his day. I discovered last week that that was the day they had planned on going to Let's Jump. A jump house place. So I'll be bringing them there. I plan on going and watching Hunt and his school friends have fun!
Here are some photos of Hunt's party invitations. We found them at a party store and HAD to add our special touches. I let Hunt roll a tire track stamp across the cards and envelopes and I glued a flag to each one that I made out of cut tooth picks and ribbon. Hunt also wrote his name on all of them and I let him write his classmates names on theirs.
before...

and after...


I made this flower hair do-hicky to match this dress. It turned out ok, but next time I'll do it different I think. This is about as much crafting/sewing that I've had time to do.





I had to take Miss Em to the Dr. on Jan 27th. Poor little babe had an ear infection. I knew the night before that she wasn't feeling well. We were up and down ALL night long...until about 4am. So I made an appointment and we headed to see Dr Coutoumanos. Em got medicine and seems to be feeling fine since then. Oh and she weighed in at 14.4!
Hunt has had a bit of a runny nose to, but has been ok for a couple days now. Now mama has a stuffed up AND runny nose(still not sure how this happens)and 2 days with a sore throat. Ughhhh! At least the throat has felt better!

So I hope to be back sometime later next week(toward the end)with photos of the school birthday cupcakes and jump house.

Until then...

not much time...

~January 25, 2010~

Well with little time here lately to catch this blog diary up, it just keeps growing...in my head. And not here on my pages.

There's been birthday planning going on, fun with friends and a trip to the Stock Show.
So I've got lots to share and tons of photos to post.

I'll be trying to update this week and get back on track. I hate to go longer than a week without posting, but sometimes you just can't help it...