Claire Turns THREE!

As much as we parents hate to face it, our kids never stop growing up! It's so hard to believe my sweet baby girl is already THREE!! To celebrate we took our first trip to the Magic House!

The kids loved climbing up the three-story "beanstalk."

And we spent a good bit of time in the Bob the Builder room!

Then we found a room dedicated to making bubbles!!! So much fun for Claire and I both!

I was grateful for the full-body bibs in the water play room!

Giant Legos?? Yes, please!

After lunch the kids played outside in the sand while Daddy apparently daydreamed.

Look at my babies!

We loved these giant foam building thingies.

Peek a boo!

Another round on the beanstalk....

A bubble pipe organ!

Claire did a little whirly bird dance in this cool room.

And afterwards we stopped by Jilly's cupcake bar for giant cupcakes! Claire stole the one with the green gumball and made Logan eat the one with the pink one, which he was not at all happy about! But on your birthday you should get whatever color gumball you want, right?

Happy birthday to my super sweet girl!!

Love you so much!

Mama

Not Exactly Bette Davis's Eyes....

Here is some interesting eyewear, courtesy of Grammy!

Hee hee

Love you, my silly boy!

Mama

Cinderella's Tea Party

Claire,

Once upon a time we were invited to a tea party with Cinderella!

But you were a little bit ungrateful for the invitation.

The other little girls, however, seemed a bit more appreciative.

But after an initial warming up period (read: when the other girls had finished tea and were having circle time with Cinderella) you settled in for a cupcake and a cuppa.

mmmmm

This may have been your fifth or sixth cup, actually....

Yep, still drinking!

The other girls had quite a bit of fun with Cinderella though.

And everyone lived happily ever after.

Love,

Mama

March of Dimes 5K

For the last two years I have been walking in the March of Dimes March for Babies fundraiser with my good pal Lisa. This year, since Lisa is off having fun in Australia (the nerve!), I enlisted my neighbor Kelly to run it with me! We have been following the Couch to 5K running program for the last few months and it was finally time to put all that training to the test! And when I found out that Pappy had started running back home in Slater, I asked him to come on down and run it with us!

Skip and the kids got there after the race started, so they played around on the grounds in Forest Park until we crossed the finish line.

But WAIT! Here we come up the hill to the finish line! (and seriously - who ends a race on an UPHILL??)

Look! There we are! STILL RUNNING!

Crossing the finish line! The guy with the paddle is scanning our numbers for our "official time." To show what kind of newbies we are to the 5K circuit, we didn't even see what our official time was! Ha! We were somewhere in the 31st minute though!

Catching our breath!

My awesome neighbor Kelly! She is the best workout partner ever!

Yay us!

Yay me! (Logan said I did great, even if I didn't win!)

The kids really scored with the balloon people!

And then rocked out to the Motown band!

What a day!

Love,

Mama