May

I have decided that May is the busiest month of the year. Yes, even busier than December.  Here is a quick recap of the month.

Nothing says 'welcome spring' better than crazy make-up in soft spring colors.

Allie's one day attempt and potty training.  She did well for that one day, then the rest of the month was so busy, so we are still enjoying diaper changing duty around here.

Madison dancing at a benefit concert. ' Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy'. I am pretty sure that we wore those tops when I was in drill team forever ago.

 

Madison graduated from D.A.R.E

C.J. lost his first tooth.  It wasn't too loose, but eating a laffy taffy at G&G's house provided enough pull the get it out, as for the tooth it was never found, probably in his tummy, but the tooth fairy came anyway.

 

C.J. is playing his first year of coach pitch and loves every second of it.

 

He is on a team with two of his cousins, so that makes it even better.  GOOOOO GRASSHOPPERS!

 

Emma earned her green dot t-shirt for mastering all of the 2nd grade skills.

 

C.J. was the 'little dog who laughed' in the nursery rhyme 'Hey Diddle Diddle' for his school program.  He told me just prior to this picture that he was not going to smile, and he didn't...silly boy, singing is not his thing.

 

Going to Home Depot, on the other hand, and being able to build a bug cage was right up his alley.

 

Selling stuff is another activity he enjoys very much.  This day it was fruit roll-ups and gushers.

Madison her her 5th grade program.  It was a patriotic program and it was very good.  Madison has loved 5th grade. She had a great class, and while the thought of her going to middle school next year makes me queasy, she is excited about it. 

Madison also danced at Lagoon again this year.  They ended up taking first place in their ballet and third in their tap dance.  It was a fun day.

 

Are you exhaused yet? Allie certainly was. While waiting for the solar eclipse she fell asleep after Tom sat her on the couch for half a second.

I didn't get a good picture of the eclipse

 

But you could see it pretty well of you looked though 4 pairs of sunglasses.

 

C.J. and Emma earned their Liberty Kids badges for the school year.

and C.J. graduated from Kindergarten, crazy but true.  He is excited to go to 1st grade minus having to stay at school all day long. He also told me that he will be sad not to be able to eat lunch with me everyday, I am sad about that too.  He did a great job in Kindergarten.  He loves to read and do math and play with his friends, but I think he is the most excited about summer out of all the kids.
more to come on the month of may soon...

happy happy and Easter

  I guess I never realized when Allie was born on the 7th of April that there would be times when her birthday would fall on Easter. Not that it is a bad thing but it just makes for a busy time.  Her birthday was the day before Easter this year.  It was a fun day.

We woke her up with her breakfast favorite of pancakes with "bipit" syrup.  She kept looking at us like were were crazy as we sang Happy Birthday to her.

Following a mini celebration we headed down to see if the Easter Bunny had stopped at our house. The bunny always makes a stop at our house on friday night becasue there is no way he/she (the gender of the eb is still under debate at our house) can hop to everyones house in one night.

This little one didn't care to much about her basket of treats just the fact that she had 3 binks and her favorite blanket made it a good morning for her.

Emma was excited to get some new clothes and treats from the EB.

Madison was happy with her loot

and C.J. was excited about his mini football.

Emma had a present for Allie to open that morning, then we were off to G&G Bogh's house for a day of Easter fun and Birthday celebrations.

We started by making paper boats that were blown across the floor with a fan.  The kids had so much fun.  they were split into age groups.

I would like to say that our kids boats did really well, but that was not the case.  If you want an awesome paper boat ask someone else becasue the boats we helped our kids with didn't make it to far before they tipped over and sank.

It was fun though.

Then we moved on to celebrate Allie turning 2.  she was a bit more excited this time, but the candles were still a little much for her.

Her 2 cherries cake.

After cake we played some BINGO.  As you can tell Allie loved playing, well eating the treats anyway.

C.J. could not get a BINGO and was not shy about letting me know he was not happy about it.

Emma was very intense about the whole game.  The games were a distraction while the eggs where hidden outside.

The hunt was on,  There were tons of eggs to be found.

Tom was incharge of keeping the big kids in the house so the little ones could have a chance to get their eggs first.  This picture shows me that there are probably more big kids than little kids in teh Bogh family now, which is so crazy.  They are all growing up so fast.

Allie kept handing her eggs to grandpa.  He would open each one and show her what was inside and then she would close the egg.  After each egg had been opened and closed several times she took each one and emptied the contents into a box.  She liked playing with the plastic eggs much more than she liked the candy inside.

Easter Sunday.  This was the best picture that I got of all of the kids on Easter Sunday.  Allie was acting crazy and would not hold still.  She didn't want to stand by the big kids she just wanted to be by herself.

As soon as I snapped a few pictures the big kids ran in the house to change their clothes. Allie didn't mind letting me take a few pictures of her by herself.

Happy Easter and Happy Birthday baby Allie.

She's 2

I am still a little bit in a state of shock to the fact that my sweet baby is 2 years old.  Where did the time go.  Each year just flies by faster than the next.

 

From this (6 weeks)

 

to this (1 year)

 

to now (2 years)

Really I still feel like I should be using that excuse that 'I just had a baby' to explain why I haven't been on top of things the way I should, or why my house is a mess.

We love this little lady so much.  She is always happy and easy going as long as she gets what she wants and has your full attention, if not then look out 'cause she can throw fits with the best of them.  You could say that she is spolied, but that would be an understatement.

She is still very much a daddy's girl.  When he is home he is the only one in her world.  He has to get her milk and buckle her car seat everything, (I think it is pretty endearing) unless she wants to do it herself.  We hear that a lot 'my do it'.  She still loves her bink and blank and would run free outside at all times if we let her.

She went to the bathroom on the potty 4 times the other day.  Since then nothing, but I am okay with that, I don't think I am ready for that milestone yet, maybe in a few months.
Her favotie food is 'i keem' (ice cream) and she asks for no less than 15 times a day.
She loves to wear dresses and skirts and likes to pick out what to wear.
She loves to read books especailly ones with animals in them, she loves to make all the animal sounds.
She has to know where everyone is at all times. Every morning she asks 'wheres emma, wheres cj, wheres mammy, where daddy go?'
Every morning she wants to go bye bye.  She will put her shoes on and head for the door.  When I ask where we are going she says bye bye with daddy.  She loves that man so much.
She likes to snuggle and watch 'pat pat' (Little Einsteins).
She loves to draw on everything.  None of our other kids have ever written on the walls.  I find new pen and pencil marks on a daily basis.
Her favorite game is tickle she will chase you around and say tickle tickle and if she gets you then you can ticlke her back.  She loves it when the kids run away from her, she thinks it is so funn.
My favorie is when she asks for a hug and kiss.  She is so loving and sweet.

I love that she has a little bit of natural curl in her hair.  I don't know how long it will last, but it is so cute.

And her long eyelashes.  When she was born she didn't have and I was kind of worried, stupid I know, but they are so long now, dark at the base and blond at the ends, just like mine.  They make all of her silly face pulling that much more endearing.
The other day C.J. told me he knew who the 'real boss' was at our house he said it was Allie and he is exactly right.  Happy Birthday to my favorite 2 year old.