Making Progress

Another sticker on the potty chart means Monkey has earned her second surprise, a Disney Princess nail polish set!  

That red string around her neck is holding her "shiny gold medal" because they played Olympics at school today.

She wanted her nails done as soon as Smoke got home; Cinderella blue toes and Little Mermaid green fingers.

(Not to take away the spotlight here, but I also feel obligated to congratulate Froggy on her first photobomb. Well done Pacified One.)

Yummy

I wonder if Froggy fingers taste the same as frog legs?

Growing Froggy

Our little Froggy is trying to sit up and roll over.

4th of July in Florence

We went to a small town nearby called Florence to celebrate the 4th. Froggy pretty much just sat around looking cute.

If perhaps a little unimpressed.


Monkey met a clown that painted a pretty patriotic butterfly on her arm.

 

And she got to ride a pony!!

TWICE!!!!

A Sister First

It's Monkey & Froggy's first night sharing their room.  I think Smoke is having separation anxiety and withdrawals but that's what baby monitors are for. 😉

Froggy Faces

Doggy Rides

Hi-ho Brownie, away!

Momming

Pa and my girls made sure I had a lovely Mother's Day. As usual. Pa likes to spoil me and lately I've had a yen for kitchen gear so he got me a beautiful shiny new crockpot. We have a small one but I tend to fill it up to the tippy top and it's hard to take to potlucks and such. My shiny new one is BIG and has a shmancy locking lid. YAY! He also got me a pizza stone which I'm really excited to experiment with. And I got me a 12 inch cast iron skillet. I've been watching too much Pioneer Woman lately and have convinced myself I can't cook without a cast iron skillet.

I started my morning snuggling my sweethearts.

We had a lovely breakfast with some silly faces.

Then we went for a drive to the lake and threw rocks.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MONKEY!

Monkey turned 3 today.  It was pretty exciting.  The day started out with a bubble bath, while wearing her birthday crown of course.

Then she got dressed in her special Birthday Princess shirt.

And ate her favorite breakfast, waffles with whipped cream and a glass of milk.

After that it was time to just relax for a while.

While Ma did some major birthday prep.  Just check out that cake!

She got her very own Minnie Mouse balloon.

And her favorites for dinner: chicken nuggets, French fries, macaroni and cheese, and chocolate milk.

She also discovered that she likes Ma's sweet & sour sauce.

Then it was time for that amazing cake.

Even Froggy got a little taste.

And finally...PRESENTS.

A new princess for her birthday train.

Minnie Mouse dress-up costume and Candyland game.

A new dress for church.

A "Min-Min" outfit.

And her very first dollhouse, because her pretending and imagination skills have exploded lately.

Now it's just time to play and relax with the family.