Silly Moments

I finally am posting pictures from Hope's party. I cannot get the video to upload, but I will try one more time tonight. Here are some really silly pictures and some from Hope's party. We had such a great time. There were so many people there. I am so glad they could celebrate with us.

Hope and Isaiah being silly with their Daddy one morning. They were running around being Indians.

Hope's new bike from Grandma and Pa. She loves it!!
Our new little chef!

Chef Hope shopping with her baby.

Princess Belle. She loves all her costumes. Thanks Aunt Kristine and Uncle Scott.

Birthday Girl!!!
Opening Gifts as fast as we could. We only had 30 minutes to eat, sing, eat cake, and open gifts. Phew!

Eating her cake.

Hope's cake. Looks cute...tastes gross. It was really dry. I tried a new recipe and it did not turn out. So bummed. Oh well.

Singing to our girl. Isaiah blowing out her candle.

Going for a ride. He loves Roly Pollies.

Can you please blow the bounce house up already. I love that thing! And that is all she went on the rest of the party. She would climb up and go down the slide and say "more." So she would run back and do it over and over.

All listening very nice.

Daddy jumping with Hope and Jaide.

My two cutie pies. I can't believe I got one that turned out so nice. You should see the rest of them. Ha ha.

Rosetta with her cowgirl boots. She loves them!!!

Happy 2nd Birthday Hope!!

I don't know how Hope can be 2!!! It seems like just a little while ago we were on our way to the hospital to meet our new little girl.

Hope is the sweetest little girl I know. She loves to hug and kiss everyone (after she gets warmed up to you of course.)

She talks so much now and has her own little personality. I love watching her and her brother play. I caught them today with my camera and looking at it later realized that Isaiah took a video of Hope. It is the cutest thing. I will try and post it tomorrow. I don't want to get my camera out in fear that I will forget it tomorrow for the party. I will post pictures and video tomorrow.

But just wanted to wish my little girl a Happy Birthday! She loves to sing that song now. It is adorable! We love you Hope!

Disney on Ice Part 2

After we saw the first Disney on Ice and the kids loved it...we decided to take them to Disney on Ice Worlds of Fantasy. This is the one with the movie Cars in it. It looked really cool online because actual cars drive out on the ice.

We left at 9am for the 11:30am show in Toronto. We were doing great until we had to park. It was a nightmare. Then the elevator we took had no directions on which floor to get off. When we finally all figured it out, we ran to the show. We were 10 minutes late and of course Cars was already on. We saw about 10 minutes of them and then the rest of the show. Isaiah was waiting the entire time for the cars to come back out. I figured they would at the end of the show because the last show we saw all of the characters came out at the end. Unfortunately...they did not come back out. Isaiah was heart broken and so was I. He was crying so hard and I felt so bad for him that I almost was in tears with him. As we looked around there were a lot of kids crying. I don't know if it was for the same reason but it may have been. I told Isaiah he could watch the movie on the way home (thank God I had it) and then he stopped crying and was a little happier.

My mom was with us and she said the same thing happened when we were little. At that time, we wanted the Smurfs to come back on and they didn't. She had two crying kids. You would think Disney would know by how to make kids happy.

It was a long day of driving and in the car. I thought the way home would be peaceful with some sleeping kids, but Hope decided not to nap. She was very funny though. The entire ride home (which was about 2 and 1/2 hours), she blabbed on and on, she put her socks on her hands and was playing, she copied every word and would repeat them like a broken record, she peed through 3 outfits and a car seat, all while Isaiah slept.

Let's say that it was a long day and one I will remember for awhile:)

March 2009

I was doing really well with posting and then...not so well again. Here are some pictures over the last month that will tell you what we have been up to.

Snow White! If any of you know my sister Kristine...you will now if she ever buys you something for your birthday...she can NEVER wait to give it to you. You usually have it the day she buys it...ha ha. So here is one of Hope's birthday gifts. She will be getting more on her actual birthday. She LOVED it!! She wouldn't take it off. She drove home in her car seat in it and napped in it too. I hid it that night since we were leaving for Florida the next morning. I will have to give it to her soon...but she has pictures tomorrow morning so maybe after those.

Snow White and her cute brother! They look like they are at the prom again with that pose! Who taught them that??
Isaiah LOVES this hat that we bought Pa for his birthday. We were there again today and he makes Pa put on his shirt and Isaiah wears the hat. So cute!
Just landed in Florida and yes Hope that is the sun!!!

At the beach with cousins! Beautiful!

Momo! My kids love her! They talk about her all the time.

And...want to take her home. I love how Hope has her hand under her chin...So sweet.

My silly girl ready to go out.

Hope loves to copy everything Isaiah does.

Cousins!! We had such a great time with them. We miss you guys!

CHEESE! This is what she does every time she sees a camera. Hopefully tomorrow the photographer can get a good one.

Last time we were at my parents house, Isaiah was a flight attendant. He would call everyone into the room one at a time and give them their ticket and tell them where they were going. Last time Joe and Scott were going to see the President. So, today he did the same thing but he went even further and was pretending to be on the plane with his Great Grandma. They were talking and taking off and landing. It was the cutest thing. Wow...can you tell Isaiah has been on a lot of airplanes!! Ha ha!

Our little girl!

Hope is talking so much now. Of course it is good and bad...only kidding:)

Her favorite sayings (that I hear so many times a day!!)
Why Mommy?
Where Mommy?
Oh Mommy.
Thank you Mommy.
(notice a pattern here...ha ha)

She finally can say her name right!!! Yeah!! She used to call herself "Home" or "Homey"....funny but so much cuter when she says Hopey.

She toots a lot and like to announce....I tooted...and then says Excuse you Daddy or Excuse you Hopey...then laughs. She thinks she is very funny when she does this.

We also have been reading a lot of Dora books. She picked up on counting in Spanish. She used to say "dos, tres, cinco." It was the cutest thing. I tried to videotape it, but she wont do it anymore. Now she just says "dos, cinco" and laughs.

She also will only drink out of her princess cup, Dora cup, or Ariel cup. If you try and give her another one....a meltdown will occur!! Dave....no Elmo cups! Ha ha!

She loves to play with her babies. And now she must bring one with us where ever we go. (Like I don't have enough stuff to carry...ha ha!) But she copies everything her brother does...so if he brings cars, she has to bring her baby.

She is also not very coordinated. I sweat that girl falls more than anyone I know. She really needs to wear a helmet. I think she even trips over her own feet...ha ha! Hopefully coordination will come soon.

Our biggest update is that she can finally eat cheese!!! Yeah!!! Whenever we used to give her cheese or eggs she would get a horrible yeast infection. But I noticed that the times we tried these things...she was also cutting some teeth. So now that she finally has all of her teeth...we tried cheese and she has been great! It is so nice because the kids have such opposite allergies and now one less thing to worry about. We will try eggs soon.