Birthdays All Around!

Mallory is three years old! Can you believe it? Seems like just yesterday we were sitting in high chairs goo goo and ga ga-ing at each other. Now we are all grown up!

Say Happy Birthday Mina!

Cake and ice cream and presents! I love parties!


I had so much fun on Saturday, that I looked high and low for another party to go to on Sunday. Look, boys have birthday parties too!
Happy birthday Owen!


Not without your big sister Mina!

Oh no, Mina, get us outta here! I'm scared of boys!

Someone told me that there's candy in here!

Mina and I have had a very good time this week digging in the dirt with Mrs. Katie and Ava!

Mrs. Katie made me a sandbox!

Hey babies!

Stay cool and watch out for boys with water bottles! See you next week!

How big is Mina??

Mina's big now, but she's still my little sister. You'll always be little to me, peanut! Hee hee!

These days, we have another little peanut jumping around - a sweet baby girl named Ava. Ava comes to our house three days a week with her mommy Mrs. Katie. She stays and plays and jumps and laughs. I think that she is very cute, and when Mommy goes to work, I'm happy we've go some fun people to play with!!


I'm also really, really happy when Mommy stays home, especially when Daddy can be home too. When we're all together, we get to eat a lot of SUGAR!
We go to birthday parties for cupcakes.

Happy birthday to Maggie!

And then we can run all around and play with our friends and also any turtles that we might see!

Hug me Katie!!




Katie and Mee-moh...

Now you're talking baby. I'm raising you up right!

I said to Mina, Baby, watermelon is a good start, but you've really got to try some of this!

Yay! Sugar and baseball!

And why stop at sugar when Mal's sharing her fries!

And it is a GOOD thing that I had all that sugar in my body, because I needed my energy for this!

It's Diego!

I met him in person! We had a nice talk about the rainforest and stuff. He was very nice and also very big. Much bigger than on TV.

Abuela's House!

Me and Mina and Mommy and Daddy all loaded up Thursday night with our two favorite doggies and headed south. Where to? Grandma and Pop Pops!! Yipeeeeee!
We had such a very, very good time.
As a special treat, Grandma and Pop Pop said that they had a breakfast surprise for us on Saturday morning...

OOOoooooohh! Grandma- You know Goofy??!!



OOOoooh Grandma, you know Donald Duck too?
Donald Duck might be the nicest, sweetest, happiest Duck in all of Vero Beach I think! Even Wesley got in some Duck time!

Aunt Rose said that she had some special, special friends of her own that she wanted to show me, so we loaded up and drove down the road to the nicest animal shelter I've ever seen and checked out all the kitties, doggies and bunnies!


And that's not all. Pop Pop and Grandma live near the beach, and the two of those crazy grands went shopping for me and the little sister before we even got there. I love my new bikini Grandma!


Not so fast you little slippery squid! I think we'll keep you right here with us on dry land!


With all of the things Grandma does for me and Mina and Mommy and Daddy, we thought it would be nice to get together and thank Grandma with an early birthday celebration!

Dora says: Happy Birthday Gramma, now quit your dillly dallying and give Maddie some cake!!


And, my new nanny Katie started last week. She's so nice and so sweet and we all really like her a lot. She told Mommy I might like to play Candyland, so Mommy and Daddy went and got it. I love it, and I won my very first game!
Go Maddie Go!

Hot Summer Days

It has been hot in North Carolina, so we all thought, lets play in the pool with Hartley! We told Mina about it, but she thought it was a bad idea...
She said... Ooooh!!! Dat water's cold Daddy! Get out from behind that camera and get me OUTTA HERE!

Oh, dry land. Much better for me!

So, Hartely and me played without her, which was fun for us too, because as long as I've got Hartley, I am OK! I GOT YOU!!


Hartley, don't spray me!!! Hmmmm....maybe I can get her back with this hose!


We also spent some time seeing other friends this week. Mommy actually has a freind who had boys, so we met up at Chick Fila to visit with them on Friday!

Mina is such a little flirt. "Hey there cutie!"


While Mina was off flirting, I was playing with the big boys. Some day, Mina...


And, this week was our last week with Mrs. Heather, so we were extra sweet to her and Mal...

And cleaned up all of our messiness! Mina and I are really going to miss them

And also, I got new boots that I thought everyone should see. Mommy wanted everyone to know that it was Daddy who actually put this outfit together for me.

One day in a ridiculous outfit ain't so bad! Well, we're off to Florida this coming weekend to see Grandma, Pop-Pop, Aunt Rose and Cousin Wesley. Yah, more beach time!!