School's out!

Tuesday was a very sad day. I had to say goodbye to the world's funnest and sweetest teachers. I know we don't look very sad, but really, we were.


It's hard to know what to do with myself with all this time on my hands. Of course we go to the park....

And when Mommy works, I play with my buddy Mal.

And it is SO much fun to be home in the morning to wake Mina up from her nap!


And sometimes, I go to Mia's house and jump in her pool with all my clothes on! You know what's even better then jumping into a pool with all your clothes? Jumping into a pool with NO clothes!

It's good to be a toddler!


On Memorial day, we went to Ava's house for some fun. Ava has a big girl pool, so we were very highly supervised, but we still had some fun.
Who needs bathing suits?

Once Ava and I dried off, we found the doggy's cage. Ava and I thought it was fun to be the doggies!

My daddy turned 31 on Wednesday. He had a very happy birthday. Last year we had a big party, but this year, we took it easy, with cupcakes and singing. My Uncle Donald turned 31 on Wednesday too! Happy birthday Uncle Donald! We saved you a cupcake!

Mid-Week Bonus Video!!

I have lots of fun in the tub with Mina every night so I thought I'd share my joy with you. Mina splashes!!

Well hello there Buckaroo!
How do you like my caterpillar? Pretty nice, huh?

If you like that, then get a load of this!

What kind of week starts with plastic caterpillars and ends up with real live horsies? A good one!
This week, I had a special picnic with Daddy, Mommy and Mina at school. I got some special cuddle time with the world's best teacher, Mrs. Nicky.


I can't believe that Tuesday is my last day until September... It's a good thing I've got a fun little sister to keep me busy all summer long!


And I also have Hartley to play with down the street!

Hartley and I are such good friends. We do EVERYTHING together!

Hee Hee. We're learning this potty thing at the same time. So far, so good. As you can see, I've been making good progress.

I make the potty flowers grow!
When Hartley and I aren't using the potty, we do other stuff. Hartley slept over on Friday and Saturday night, so we got to spend lots of time together. We had a blast!
At a strawberry farm, we picked some strawberries and played with the horsies. Then, we ate some strawberry ice cream.


When we were home, we focused on making stuff, which is what us toddlers do best!


Mina tries to cut in on the action. Soon baby!

Mother's Day

Seventy five is A LOT of years! That's about seventy three more than I've got, and seventy four more than Mina. But, that is how old my grandpa was on Saturday! Happy Birthday Grandpa! Thanks for the cake!!

We celebrated Grandpa's birthday at his house with Grandma, Aunt Ann, Uncle David and Michaela. We had FUN!


We played and played... until we heard a BOOM BOOM! Thunder!
We got scared (or, Michaela and Mina got scared...) and we jumped up on the couch with Daddy. Michaela was extra careful. She hid behind that pillow so the thunder couldn't find her! Good thinking Michaela!


I LOVE birthdays!
And I also love my Mommy. On Sunday morning, I went into Mommy and Daddy's room with Daddy and brought Mommy breakfast in bed! Mina showed Mommy her new skill- MaMaMaMa. Mommy ate it up! I said now Mina, watch this! "Happy Mother's Day!!" Hee hee. I'm still the big girl around here!
Then, we went downstairs and spent a little quality time with Mommy.

I spent some time working on my big sister skills and taught Mina all about the markers!

Mina decided the day was so much fun, she didn't want to stay asleep at nap time, so she woke up early and played some more! Look how much FUN Mina has when her big sister is upstairs asleep!

It turns out, that wasn't such a good plan, as you can see. By dinner time, Mina had had it! Luckily she got her second wind and woke up enough to get her bath and go to bed.

Happy Mother's day to my Mommy and to my Grandmas!

Not A Total Loss!

Hey there everyone! Mommy was right. We were all pretty sick last week but we did manage to scrape together a handful of photos.

Being stuck in the house all week has rough since I didn't get to play with my friends Mallory, Katie, Jack, Hartley or Michaela. But, it's really made me come to appreciate my little sister more. She's getting SOOOOOO big and fun to play with.


Even she got a little sick of being stuck in the house though. C'mon Mina. The choker hold wasn't that bad, was it?


Well, it wasn't all bad inside. It also gave me time to practice some big girl stuff, like going on the potty! Every time I go pee-pee on my potty, I get DORA STICKERS!! And now, they EVEN let me wear my Dora underwear sometimes if I'm doing REALLY well. I just gotta work on the whole poopie thing now.


That's all for our short week. We'll have lots more to tell you about in the coming weeks as Grampa is turning 75 this weekend, Hartley is sleeping over the next weekend, then Daddy's birthday and then a visit to Uncle Donald and Aunt Kim's house to see Grandma and Pop-Pop. I can't wait!!