Our fun day :)

We went to the Armament Museum today. Cara was so fabulously pleased with the airplanes!!

A fun spot to relax :)

The boy grabbed his pillow, blanket, Mickey Mouse, Baby (it's a monkey) and his dvd player and went to his tent. He sat here for quite some time, just relaxing and watching his movie :)

An afternoon of Art :)

Alex's lovely painting. I think he enjoyed the fact that he was using his hands more than actually painting!

Let me guide you through this painting of Cara's. Mickey Mouse is in the upper left. He has green arms coming out of his head. Rapunzel is right next to him. She has a yellow head, red hair and a blue body with some very long blue legs...and blue shoes. I asked her to write her name and she drew circles in the bottom left. I asked "Is this your name?" She replies "No Mom, those are circles". As in "duh!!".
This painting will need a little more of your imagination. Cara painted snakes across the top, the blue blob in the left center is a lion. He is mostly head and mane with a skinny body going out to the right and a red tail. Right next to him is an elephant. For some reason, the head is at the bottom of the blob and the body goes up. Who knows!! Then the mauve colored blob in the bottom left is a dog. Oh yes, the blue squiggles next to the elefant (this is on the right center of the page) is a giraffe. She lastly had to draw a circle around the entire picture.

I just thought I would share a bit of our day with you :)

My surprise trip :)

Have I mentioned lately that my husband totally rocks??? Well, he does. He told me FOUR months ago that he had bought my 30th birthday present. 4 MONTHS!!! These have been a very tortuous few months!

Blake set it up so his parents would babysit the kids, and he and I got in the car and headed west. I still had NO idea where we were going or what we were doing. He finally tells me we are going to Biloxi. This really told me nothing. Finally, we start playing our travel games, one of which is 20 questions. I had to play 20 questions to figure out what we were going to do :) I totally guessed after 14! It was.....

Cirque De Soleil--Alegria

I was so excited! I have, literally, wanted to see Cirque de Soleil my entire life. This was so amazing!! We went and checked into our hotel, then he took me shopping to buy something pretty to wear for the show. I picked out a beautiful floor length gray-ee swirlyish floor length dress. Apparently while I was trying it on, he decided to go and buy me a new matching set of earrings and a necklace :)

Onto the show. Not only did he get me tickets to see the show, our seats were in the front row. As in, I could reach out and touch the people if I had wanted!!! Now, we've see Cirque de Soleil on tv, but it is NOTHING compared to seeing it in person!!! I cannot believe how amazing it was :)

I don't think he will ever top this. It was so amazing. We weren't allowed to have camera's at the event, or even have our cellphones on, so I don't have any great shots of the night, just some amazing memories :)

A view feom Cara's eye

Herself in the bathroom mirror

Her most favorite brother

The ceiling fan....not so sure why this is important!

The clock. One of her favorite things ever

the outlet beneath the clock.....

the chairleg of the bench in the room with the clock....

Return to Neverland. She enjoyed watching it this morning

Her foot. There were MANY pictures of her foot. This is just one.

Her bowl of goldfish...from afar :)

All in all, she took 193 pictures of things she loves. A lot were of the ceiling fan, the cuckoo clock, her foot and her brother. She is just so funny!

Agent P jammies :)

Silly kids....

Cara just being a cheeseball!!

So, Cara LOVES Phineas and Ferb.....and now, so do we! She saw these jammies at Walmart and just HAD to have them :) I tried to talk her into maybe Tinkerbell jammies, but no. She wanted these ones. It's just adorable! Perry and Candace are her favorite characters...They need to make Candace pj's....

Alex's Room

This is Alex's room at the moment. He LOVES his tent/ballpit that we got him for his birthday. It's just cute to see him and Cara playing together ;)

Happy Birthday to my Baby Boy :)

A few hours after he was born :)

The morning of his first birthday...what a cheeseball!!
The morning of his second birthday. Still a cheeseball, just bigger :)

Weight: 32lbs - 92%

Height: 35.6 in - 85%

Head Cicumference.....still very large :)

Alex is doing just fabulous :) The doc was "impressed" with his headsize...but then everyone is! Alex has defenitly entered the terrible two's, but we are dealing with it. He loves to do everything by himself and thinks he really knows what is best. This, of course, results in a lot of spankings, but we are getting it! He is so different than Cara. She's a climber/daredevil, he likes caves and closets. She really tries to make people happy. The boy likes to push the boundries like I've never seen!!! It's different having a boy, but in the last two weeks, he's gone from Daddy being the favorite to ME being the favorite. Yay! It gets a little tiring at times, as he's just started wanting to show you everything. "Mom, come on" is a favorite phrase. I am loving being the favorite, though :) I hope this next year is a little easier than this past year....or rather just the past 6 months. If Cara is any indicator, it might just get easier....Here's praying that it does :)

Alex and Brooklyn's Birthday Party

We had a fabulous joint birthday party for Alex and Brooklyn this past Sunday. Alex pretty much didn't know what to do gift-wise, but when it came to the cake, he blew his candles out (super cute) and chowed down on his HUGE slice of cake :) I will be posting more pictures later!

just some more randoms...

I kinda think the boy looks like Spock in this shot...Cute picture of Cara though.

They rarely look at the camera at the same time...they never smile at the same time...if at all!
This is a normal look for him when he isn't getting what he wants.