Coco's Birthday

We celebrated Chloe's 3rd birthday yesterday. Sam and I had big plans for making a Hello Kitty birthday cake. Ace of Cakes on the foodnetwork makes foundant cake making look so easy, I thought what the heck I can do that! We baked our cakes, shaped our cakes, filled our cakes, and colored our foundant pink. Up to this point it was smooth sailing then we needed to cover our round 2 tiered cake in foundant. Now on TV this part looks easy but at our house this was a disaster. It's extremely difficult to cover a round cake without getting wrinkles and creases! Needless to say the cake ended up in the garbage. Lesson learned: somethings should be left to the professionals. So a quick trip to the bakery to buy a pretty pink doll cake and the birthday was saved.

Chloe was tickled pink with all her birthday gifts. 2 Hello Kitty shirts, a Hello Kitty bathingsuit, a Hello Kitty pillowcase, a Hello Kitty outfit, a pink sweater, a little doll, lipgloss, bathtoys, a book, a Hello Kitty doll, and a movie. As you can see Miss Coco loves Hello Kitty and all things pink!

Snowcones, swimsuits, and sunglasses

Every year we have a few beautiful days in February when the sun shines and the temp rises above freezing. These days have some strange effect on me and I feel the need to get ready for spring. By the end of February I’ve purchased all of my children’s summer clothing shorts, shirts, sandals, and swimsuits. The new items are all washed, folded and ready to be worn. Then the waiting begins! At least once a week for the next few months I wish and hope we will soon be able break out the summer clothes! This year I showed an amazing amount of self control, I have not yet purchased any tank tops for the kids ( actually I couldn’t find a store that had any yet ) Perhaps there’s a 12 step program for compulsive summer clothing shoppers; until I find one I’ll just keep looking at our summer stash and long for the sunshine.

Best Friends

Chloe told Connor last night that he was her best friend. Connor thought for a moment and replied "Your my best friend too, well your okay for a GIRL I guess". Being a man of the world with his own set of preschool friends he seems to think being a GIRL is a not cool!

Words of Wisdom

Never Argue with an Idiot. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Yes, a very negative thought. Yet this describes my experience with our insurance provider trying to find an answer to a simple question. Three blue cross reps later and three different answers later this is how I feel.

Things from our backyard

Connor at 4! The boy loves to have his picture taken.

PRETTY IN PINK

As I sorted through family pics I noticed a trend with Chloe. She's always wearing pink! It's her favorite color and will change her clothes during the day if she doesn't have something pink on. When Grandma Nan asked what kind of Valentine candy she liked Coco replied "PINK". For her birthday she has told us she wants shoes! Pink shoes with bows. What a girlie girl she is turning out to be.