Dylans 3rd Birthday Party

His actual birthday isnt for a few weeks but had his party early. Daddy and I decided that a garbage truck and recycling theme would be fun. I will admit I did not come up with the ideas all by myself but had a blast decorating. For about a week and a half I collected empty boxes, juice containers, drink cup from resturants, applesauce and fruit cup containers, you name it I saved it to throw all over the playgroud area.


I made flowers out of cardboard boxes and used yogurt cups/fruit cup containers as the center (sprayed paint them yellow).


His happy birthday banner was made from magazine covers and then a picture of Nana and Papas garbage man holding a sign that said Happy Birthday Dylan.



On the tablecloths I used green as the main then cut a long road from a black tablecloth. Daddy made houses from construction paper and the driveways were newspaper. The kids table the food was in trash cans and we had die cast garbage trucks from Waste Management.



Daddy and I made Dylans cake. It was fun working together to decorate a garbage truck. I have to say I am quite proud of our efforts.


For party favors I gave each child a Trash Talker T-Shirt (boys were whit and girls were pink) and made bottle cap magnets. Here is a picture of Dylan with his shirt on.


All the kids had a blast.












Singing happy Birthday and Opening Presents









The fun that 2 (almost)one year olds can find at a birthday party.....

Bye Bye Pacifier

Wow! Today Dylan came up to me and Aunt Nikki and said he wanted to give his pacifier to the recycling man. This was to be done on his 3rd birthday which is only a month away. He went and gathered them and off we went to the recycling bin. We have pictures to prove it. Nap time was hard an as he is trying to fall asleep now he is sad. Colby went through the same thing For a few days. I'm so proud of him for doing this all by himself.

My Dear Little Dylan!

If you know him you got to love him :)! He has such a sweet smile and some charming eyes! He says some funny things and loves to be silly. All of these things dont help when he just will NOT listen. Mommy feels as if she is losing her cool more than not with this sweet child of mine. Its hard to handle when Colby was polar opposite at this age. Becky always said "Colby just isnt a normal boy". Of course I thought she was crazy all boys acted like Colby ;). Now I see what she means. I have been blessed with a normal hyper acting non listening its my own world Boy! My mom keeps reminiding me that if I am consitant with him and try not to let him see that he is getting to me that one day he will get it. My question is "When?".....age 18????

So I have decided to list 5 things that make me smile when I think of Dylan
1. he is hilarious
2. he always wants me to have his 2nd monkey to cuddle with
3. the pop noise he makes when he kisses
4. he loves to sing (Chuggington, Blast off, Mickey Mouse Club House)
5. his giggle

Oh how I love you my Dear Little Dylan!!

Abby's Milestones

As you have read my summmer has been so CRAZY!! My precious little girl grew up quickly right before my own eyes! She began to crawl at the beginning of the summer and now she is lightening fast! She even does the crab crawl especially when she has dresses on. We call her "our little crab".

Pulling up was accomplished too and there was a time when she would pull up on the coffee table or ottoman and then stand there screaming or crying because she had no idea how to get back down. Thank goodness that didnt last long and she fiqured it out. Her squeal is piercing to the ears.

Then she began to wave and let me tell you how adorable it is when she waves!! Sometimes its with one hand and sometimes you get a double wave. When she first began to wave her best wave was when daddy came home from work and he said "hi Poopsie" and she immediately waved at him. He melted :)! I do beleive she knows how cute she is when she waves because she loves to give you the wave and an adorable smile when she is getting in trouble. Makes us laugh which isnt going to be good for her learning right from wrong.....we are in trouble already.

Ms Katie taught her how to drink out of a sippy cup! Abby would only do it if we took the valve out and tipped the cup back. Of course mommy was getting worried thinking she would ever drink out of a sipy cup and she would require her milk from a bottle once she turned one. Neither one of my boys ever used a bottle for cows milk and I was not going to let her win this one. So i shipped her down to Mrs Becky and Ms Katie and told them they had one job while they were babysitting. It worked!! Then about a week later we were at Monkeys Jungle and she was fussing so I was going to let her chew on my straw and to my surprise she was drinking my diet coke :)! Sippy cup and a straw all within one week. Whoo Hoo!!

She says Mama all the time and is starting to try and say Dada. She makes lots of other sounds too that actually sound like she is trying to talk chinese. The boys love mimicking her. Speaking of the boys they love her. Colby is very gentle and always wants her around to play. He wants to give her hugs and kisses before she goes to bed, loves to feed her, and keeps asking for Baby Blake (Blake would have been the boys name if Abby would have been a boy). Dylan loves her too but he shows it in another way. He is ready for her to play for real and is somewhat rough. All we keep telling him is that one day Abby is going to slug you andw e arent going to say a word to her. He does want to give her hugs and kisses too and will be the first to want to go into her room when she wakes to play with her.