Happy Birthday Sylvia

April 5, 2010 – 9:21 pm

I can’t believe I’ve been away from blogging so long that I actually missed Sylvie’s 2nd birthday. This year her birthday fell on a Wednesday which meant it was a Grammie day. My mom made cupcakes for Sylvia which Nicholas helped decorate. Sylvia loved them!


When Daddy got home from work we opened presents. She got a shopping cart from us along with a few other toys.



I don’t know if its because of the balloons, the birthday sundaes or that is is just plain loud in there, but we always seem to end up at Red Robin for the kids’ birthdays.


Then on Friday we went to TGI Fridays to celebrate with Scott’s family.




Sylvia enjoyed another sundae there , but decided it was easier to lap it up like a dog instead of using her spoon.
Sylvia had one more party at my mom’s house a couple of weeks later. This time she shared the spotlight with several of her cousins, and I’m pretty sure she enjoyed these cupcakes too!

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  1. grammie   -  

    !those big, brown eyes sure are beautiful! Fun pictures…she’s such a sweetie! Can’t believe she’s 2 already!

  2. Betsy   -  

    For a second I thought Chase was Johnny…Then I remembered Johnny is 17:) They are all getting so big so quickly! What sweet kiddos.

Just in case anyone is wondering why we want to get rid of our dog…

March 17, 2010 – 11:51 am

And she is quite proud of it!

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  1. Cara   -  

    That looks all too familiar. Our dog likes to bring me skunks, possums, and dead cow parts, it’s so gross.

  2. Jamie   -  

    Oh Kate. That picture made me crack up.

    Where is the rest, I wonder? LOL

  3. Laura   -  

    Oh dear. That is quite gross. I’ve got an idea, move to the city and have no yard…our bird dog has yet to catch anything with all this cement around. ;)

  4. grammie   -  

    awwww…she’s smiling! She was so excited and it was so gross! Find any takers yet?

  5. Betsy   -  

    Aww, Ells:) I like Laura’s idea…Not as much wildlife in DC! Just a lot of dog parks. How perfect.

Happy Valentines Day

February 14, 2010 – 8:00 am







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  1. grammie   -  

    could they possibly be any cuter? I don’t think so! Happy Valentine’s Day to my precious little ones too! Love you to pieces.

Dress Up

February 8, 2010 – 2:07 pm

Friday night Sylvia got to play dress up with her cousins Joy & Juliet.  They each came out with a princess outfit on and Joy had even put a little makeup on the baby girls.  Well this was really Sylvia’s first experience with playing girly things and she loved it!  The next day she rummaged through her drawers and found her bathing suit with ruffles which she wanted me to put on her.  I went down and found the bag of tutus and pettiskirts I use for photo props – the same ones she would scream about if I tried putting on her .  Well now she wants them all on at once and screams if I try and take them off.  So here is my new found girly-girl in her glory

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  1. auntie joan   -  

    How fun to look through all the pics that I’ve missed during the last few weeks! Your kids are adorable and you always manage to catch the cutest shots. Love the new girly Sylvie :)

  2. grammie   -  

    Sylvia a girly-girl? I can’t believe it! Leave it to a cousin to get her to do what mommy never could!

Four

February 2, 2010 – 11:06 pm

I say the same thing every year, but I can’t believe my oldest baby is this old already!


His favorite things right now (or should I say the only thing he cares about at all) are trains. He has quite an imagination too. He can make anything into a train – a toy snake, plates, straws, cars, remote controls, boxes. If an object can’t be a train in his mind, it will always still have something to do with trains – it will be something to fix a train or for a train driver to use, etc. Its seriously all he thinks about!

To celebrate, first we opened presents. We didn’t get him any trains, so he wasn’t too enthused. He was pretty excited about the new bike he picked out, but claims that it wasn’t a birthday present since it wasn’t wrapped up. :) I beg to differ. We had dinner at Red Robin and then took him to a different toy store to let him get something with the money he got from his great grandma. You guessed it – he bought a train.

This face is what he does now when I ask him to smile for me:

Last Sunday we had his birthday dinner at my mom’s, so thought I would add a couple of those pics as well.


And I can’t leave this rascal out either :)   She loves pushing the buttons on my camera which is the only way I can get a pic out of her.

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  1. olivia   -  

    Happy 4th Nicholas! My oldest, Levi, turned 4 yesterday too and it’s funny to me how similar the two of them are…love of trains, half-smiles for the camera, even birthday dinner at Red Robin!!

  2. grammie   -  

    Such a big guy! He told me today that when he gets tall like his daddy he wants to be a train driver…then he added that he has to eat his supper so he gets big! He also told me that he would give me a ride on his train but not in the engine. I would have to ride in the freight car! Hope all of your wishes come true Nicholas! I love you!

A Boy and His Train

January 26, 2010 – 9:49 pm

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  1. Kamra   -  

    I love this shot! Is that by any chances a Lionel? It looks similar to one that we have that used to be my husbands dads.

  2. Katie DeBoer   -  

    I don’t know if its a Lionel (and Nicholas is sleeping with it right now or I’d check), but this one used to be my husband’s dad’s or grandpa’s too!

Cousins

January 26, 2010 – 12:42 pm

Nicholas loves goofing off with his cousin Joy!

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  1. grammie   -  

    so precious…cousins, neighbors and friends! I love it!