Saturday, May 5, 2012

Dress Up

Aunt Hillary got the Ann Elizabeth a princess crown and scepter for her birthday.  She also brought Sterling a Captain America mask and shield.  They LOVE dressing up in them.  Ann Elizabeth is also obsessed with the jewelry Sterling got her for her birthday.  She loves anything girly and actually cried to get some shoes I tried on her at the store the other day.  They didn't really fit, as I said in my last post we are having some issues finding shoes, so I let her carry them through the store and when she forgot about them for a moment I put them back.  She LOVES shoes!!  Anyway here are some pics from one of their many dress up days.



 We have a lot of these faces these days.  She is normally a really happy girl but sometimes we are just a bit dramatic.



Friday, May 4, 2012

"I'm having lots of birthdays"

That was Sterling's comment after anything birthday related was mentioned.  We had his family party right after his real birthday but we finally had Sterling's birthday party with his friends.  I postponed his party until spring since it is usually freeeezzzzing around his birthday.  Last year his party kicked off the Snowstorm of 2011, our family barely made it home in time and my mom and Jameson really almost got stuck in the snow. The year before it was so cold we kept the leftover drinks from his party in the garage in a cooler and the ice stayed frozen and the drinks stayed cold for a month. 

So, I decided March or April would work out better.  His birthday came and went and it was a beautiful sunny day.  However, the day I chose April 22, was so cold.  We had it at the park and the wind almost blew the kids' cupcakes away!  But they had so much fun.  I'm glad we had Sterling's jacket in the car.

 Lightning McQueen had to stay in the box until the last minute.  I think there was actually a point that the wind actually moved the box a bit.

 "Cheese, now can I go play again!"
 Sweet girlfriends!  Ann Elizabeth is obsessed with chairs, especially pint-sized ones.  She goes around the room looking for what she can back up to and sit on.  Mom got these cute chairs for AE and S and she loves sitting in them when we play outside.

Also, even thought it was so cold out Ann Elizabeth has no close-toed shoes with a hard sole.  As she is walking now the soft-soled ones won't work outside, and as her foot is still a size 3 (barely) most shoes in her size are crib shoes.  Any suggestions for shoes for babies with tiny feet?  We had the opposite problem with Sterling! Crazy!
 Happy Birthday Boy!  He is getting so big!

 Trying to blow the candles out as we try to make them stay lit.  It didn't really work, but he thought he did it anyway.


KerKer came to take KiKi home on his way in from drill in South Carolina.  He came in time to play for a while after the kids left.  Ann Elizabeth enjoyed swinging with him and loves snuggling these days.