Brooks turns 2!

Saturday was destined to be all sorts of ... wonderful? :) Last time Maryland had an official blizzard (that I lived through) was 1996. Apparently there was one in 2003 or 2004 - but I had moved to Utah. Moving foward - Brooks birthday also happened to be Saturday! Freaking 2! Holy cow - the amazingness of the past 2 years blows me away. I love this lil' kid so much, and can't believe he's a 'kid', not a baby, nor a toddler. A KID!

Mitch spent 4 hours driving (which should have been an hour round trip driving) to pick up my sister and her girlfriend & son so that they could come over for Brooks birthday (bless Mitch's soul....).

It was such a fabulous day, regardless of the weather. (Have I mentioned how much I despise snow?). I hope Brooks knows how much we love him and how grateful we are to have him in our life for 2 years now!

Brooks obviously loves all things "Yo Gabba Gabba" - his favorite character being Brobee. I knew I wanted to make a Brobee cake, but I am no cakebakewhiz. (Even though I did work in a cookie decorating store for 2 years...). I was determined to only use ingredients I had in the house - and running out of cake mix, I ended up using tinfoil for the horns - but otherwise, I think it was a success because at least you can tell what "it" was supposed to be? :)

The favorist thing I made was this pretty rad (for a non painter/talentedcreative type) was this frame... til I realized they all had their hands up like suliting Hitler... Ha... Uh..

Happy Birthday Brooks!

It's been quite a while since I updated this - and tons has taken place! (But I will save that for the Christmas card...). Alas, it's a good place to update on my kids lives so that I can eventually print it out and they can have a mini-update book on their lives. Or Such.

Today was calling for freezing rain (Icing). Scared to death to drive anywhere - but not wanting to keep the kids stuck in the house all day - I bundled them up, and outside we went. Of course it turns out, it's sunny and probably in the 40's... But some silly photos for fun (all off of my phone, so not high quality at all...):

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.

There are seven million.

~Walt Streightiff

Sometimes I do silly things that make my children think I'm not too awful - or was it that I was trying to avoid homework.... Either way, for them, it's a win - win situation! :)

****Obviously my talents do not lie within construction paper art.

The Damage:

In case you didn't read, or I haven't cried to you - Addy chopped her hair. All of it. Here's some of the 'damage'. I don't have any "post-damage trytofixit" photos for now because I'm still trying to take it all in that, that my daughters hair is gone. Addy's her hair cut once (November 2008), and it was mostly just to be like "Hey You've officially had your hair cut before you turned 3". But now sadly her long lucious hair is gone. But don't worry - boyish looking or not, I still dig the kid :).

Brooklyns Word's

I absolutly love toddler-hood. It's by far my favorite stage - and mostly because the toddlers don't think of picking up scissors and chopping their hair off - because yes, yesterday my 3 year old did that! :( (P.S. my flash card works in my camera, but if I put it in my computer, it says that I must reformat, or that no photos can be found--- any one know whats going on!?!)

Anyhow, Brooks says "Baba" for bottle, "bebe" for brobee (his stuffedbrobee from yogabbagabba) 'blankee', shoooe (Addy used to do this too, SO SO STINKING CUTE!) and his favorite - "ELMO". We got him a stuffed 'Elmo' Yesterday and he immediatly grabbed it, 'kissed it', hugged it, and said "ELMO". heart. BREAK. Love that kid.

I wish I could post photos but since I can't retreive them off my flash card right now - so deal with a cute silly video of Brooks .