Pre Party

Saturday morning I had lots of cooking to do. I was making cookies and birthday girl had to taste test.

Nana was my saving grace that day. She kept the kids entertained, kept the house picked up and did the last minute touch up cleaning for me.

A classic picture.

The cat literally inserting herself into the party prep process. She was "helping" me make the treat bags for all of our friends.

The boys setting up tents for some much needed shade for the party. Kyle is such a goof ball.
It was a lot of work getting ready and my whole family pitched in. I couldn't have done it without them.

The Actual Birthday

So I like to spend the kids' birthdays with them, just the two of us. It is a special day for both of us.

Brand New vs Just Two

What a difference a couple years makes.

Friday morning for Jillian's birthday we went to the actual Gymboree.
She of course loved it. This little girl is fearless.
The picture below is kind of funny - she was jumping (and she stuck the landing).
After some fun at Gymboree we headed to Build a Bear.

She picked out a hideous Hello Kitty to make and I just couldn't let that happen. So I pushed her to make a bear. She liked the purse for the bear more than she liked the bear or bear making process.

So she wouldn't press on the peddle to stuff her bear, so I had to do it and at the end the BAB guy let a tiny bit of stuffing fly out on purpose. Jillian thought this was hilarious. BAB guy started stitching up her bear and she goes over and presses the pedal. He didn't turn of his stuffer and lots of bear fluff flew everywhere. He got a good laugh out of it and I think that was Jillian's favorite part of the process. I apologized for the mess and he was super nice and said it was his fault for leaving it on. No harm done.

Jillian playing in the fluff and stuff.

We named our bear "Curly Bear" I know not very original, oh well.

Jillian liked carrying her bear box with the finished product inside.

Curly Bear ended up with a birthday t-shirt, birthday cake, flowers in her hair, the purse and a brush and blow dryer set that Jillian insisted on (it is her birthday - the perfect day to give in). She also sing a birthday song that Jilli likes to dance to.

Next we headed to lunch. I think this was our first time dining just the two of us.

Munch Munch... we worked up an appetite that morning.

Jilli styling her own hair with Curly Bear's brush and blow dryer.

Jillian went down for a long nap. While she was napping Nana and I went to pick up Drew for a surprise. Nana and birthday boy Papa took Drew to the Moon Marble Company in Bonner and then out for ice cream. I think he liked having some individual attention and then the whole day wasn't just about sister. He had a really hard time going to daycare that morning without her and cried that day a couple of times because he missed his sister.

After a pizza dinner we headed outside for the biggest surprise. We got a new playhouse. It was for both kids, but Jillian's birthday gave us some justification for it.

Andy and I put it together the night before and it was in our backyard all day Friday. Every time we came up to the house we would have to distract Drew, because he would have noticed it right away.

Exploring the new place.

Drew looks so grown up in this picture. I can almost picture this lady killer as a teenager.

He kept pretending this was his McDonald's. I guess that is a hint that we need to lay off the DDP stops.

Playing in the new house is fun, but not as good as some Nana lovin.

Each side of the house has a different theme. This one is obviously sports, but there is also a gas station, school, ATM and market.

The sand box was irresistible for the birthday girl.

By the time we headed in we had to fish out one bow and one shoe from the sand box.

Daddy and the birthday girl :)Nana playing with the jumping Jilli bean.

So I bought these lollipops a while ago because there were just a buck. What better day than a birthday to enjoy them.

Yes, these lollipops are the size of their heads.

Drew was super excited about these, he noticed them earlier in the week when I got them out.

Monkey see.....Monkey do.

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!!! I hope she can feel how much I love her and that every birthday will be just as great as this one.

Our Latest Jenny Wheat Pictures

Thursday morning we had our pictures taken for Jillian's 2nd birthday. They are awesome as usual. Everyone can check out my chop job of a hair cut I got last week. If you can't tell I don't like it, oh well it will grow.

www.wheatphotography.com/roberts

I have lots of pictures to post from this weekend: Jillian's birthday bash and of Baby Claire Baptism and more. Hopefully I will get them up soon.

A quick funny Drew story: If you don't know Drew LOVES his baby Claire, so Sunday after the baptism he was laying next to on her blanket and giving her lots of kisses. He sang his tiny turtle song to her and he was just laying there. I said "Drew talk to her" and he says to her in the sweetest almost whisper "baby Claire, guess what.....chicken butt." It was so hilarious.

Big Girl Bed

So we were cleaning out all the toys and trying to put all the pieces for each in the same location and we decided to change Jillian's crib into the day bed.

A spur of the moment decision which is good otherwise I probably would have over thought it and been really sad. Andy reading the directions, some one was really smart to think to have them on the bed. If they weren't there we wouldn't have had any.
I brought the princess castle down out of her closet to keep them entertained while the metamorphosis was taking place. Yes Drew likes to play with the castle.

So cute, this is the first time I have seen Jillian sit down and play with the little doll set like this.

Jilli trying out the new digs.

Using the big girl quilt for the first time.

Night Night (just pretending)

A look of disgust, but I am not sure why. I kept asking Andy if he did it right. You can see her sheet under the side rail, that just doesn't seem right, but he swears it is. He read the directions.

Jillian laying on her bed with a lay, 3 bracelets, a little purse, a credit card and a phone. Yikes!

She has done great. She hasn't fallen out yet and there aren't any toys out on the floor in the morning like I thought there would be.

Big Girl Panties

Friday I bought Jillian her first pack of pull ups. Here she is modeling them while throwing a fit. I can't even remember what for.

We are not full time potty training yet, just seeing how she will do.
She usually sits on the potty before she gets in the bath tub and never does anything until today!

I think that is the 2nd time she has got pee pee on the potty. Every time you ask her if she wants to go to the potty she excitedly says yeah and runs down the hall. She just sits there and I have to try and entertain her to keep there for longer than 30 seconds. Oh well, like I said just testing the waters.

Trying to figure out the zipper.

Singing Drew

Here is my little man and one of his new songs he learned from school. I have tried and tried to add a second song about monkeys swinging in the trees, but I think the video may be too long. I will try to tape it again, because it is that cute. This song is about tiny Tim. He gets a little distracted and then I love how he looks at his hands during the bubble part.

I love that he comes home with nice songs and nice words from this new school. It is such a weight off my shoulder, we love our new school.

City Market

Saturday morning we headed down to City Market after some much needed recycling. I had no idea what we were heading into. So unprepared. It has a huge farmers' market and it was so packed. We definitely needed the stroller for sis, but struggled, I mean managed without it.

Impossible to get both looking at the same time.
Scarecrow Drew

Jillian's expression is pretty funny in this pic.

There was people making balloons animals and such. Drew chose a blue sword, so I got Jilli the same thing because I knew she would want his sword if I got her a dog or something.

Drew entertained at the Arabia Steamboat display.

After a slightly stressful short tour of the City Market area we headed to Minsky's for lunch. Yes, both balloon swords took some hits and parts began to pop. Then the blue one turned into this interesting configuration.

Andy and I hadn't paid much attention to it, then we sat down for lunch and Jilli held up the balloon phallus and laughed hysterically. Andy asked her if she had fun at the bachelorette party. It was sooo funny.

On the way to get Drew a hair cut is was no surprise that they both fell asleep.

With his pop eye glasses on, that I obviously didn't fix.

Drew and his cutie new hair cut.