One little monkey

You know that song "one little monkey jumping on the bed..."?

Yeah....

Our little monkey and gravity have been getting awfully close lately.

The scab under her nose was sustained when she fell during Olympics day at school. The rest happened during a full on head over heels tumble all the way down the stairs. Skinned nose, bumped head, extra damage to the aforementioned scab, and what I suspect will be a nice little shiner come tomorrow morning.

Bless her heart, once she got calmed down she said "I gotta try that again,"  climbed to the top of the stairs, and carefully went bump the rest of the way. 

Totally fearless this one. Unless one of her toys makes a sound. Then forget about it.

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.)

Overheard

Smoke:  How hungry are you?

Monkey:  Ummm...three and a half!

Guess who had a cookie with blue frosting...

Monkey cracked up laughing when she saw herself in the camera.

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!!!!

Smoke's New(ish) Ride

This Lady is on her fourth vehicle in the almost five years I've known her.  I can't say anything bad though because she always gets exactly what she wants for exactly how much she wants to spend.  Actually....I'm not allowed to buy my own cars anymore.

This time it is a 2013 Chrysler Town & Country Touring Edition minivan (because one additional child means you need four times the space).  The van is loaded with leather, a dual DVD player with two sets of headphones, remote self opening/closing rear doors and tailgate, and a ton of other stuff.  She got it for the same payments as her lease on a base model 2014 Honda CR-V while ending the lease 18 months early.  She wanted to keep the finance worksheets as a trophy because when all was said and done she worked them for $4500 off their original offer.

And Monkey likes it too because she can get into the van and up in her seat all by herself (but we still have to work on how to safely exit the vehicle).

Monkey Is Growing Up Faster & Faster

Big girl waiting for her swim class to start this morning.

Just about every night we watch an episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse together in our bedroom before bedtime.  It's Monkey's favorite show. She usually climbs into bed with Smoke and me to watch it, but tonight she wanted to sit in our big chair all by herself instead.

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. 😉

She Is A Monkey After All

She couldn't wait to get home.  Monkey had to have a banana as soon as we got out of the grocery store.

Fishing

Minnie Bows

Smoke made Monkey some hair bows to match her outfit.

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.

Swim Class

They sang happy birthday to Monkey at swim class. You can't see the HUGE grin on her face but she was so excited.

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.