YOOOOO GABBA Party!!!!

Cousin S’s 3rd 2nd Birthday party was her school party.  A, Gramma and I got to go too!  It was a great Yo Gabba Gabba party!

 

MUNOOOOOOO he's tall and friendly

FOOFAAAAA.....She's pink and happy!

BROBEEEEE...the little green one!

TOODEEEE.....she likes to have fun!

PLEX....a magic robot!

 

Cupcakes came out fantastic!  Weird that Auntie H requested purple cake – but hey….she’s weird 🙂

As soon as A saw her cousin at the other side of the room, she HAD to get to her right away…so she crawled under the table and made her way to the prime spot right next to her best cousin!  It was so sweet…she loves her so much!

 

'I'm coming Cousin S!"

"Front row to the candle show!"

"How come I didn't get a cupcake?!"

Haha - No cupcake for you A!!! Soon - but not yet!

Cousin Al gets a cupcake!

 

 

SuperGLEE party…

We had a little GLEE/Superbowl party over here.  Took just a few nights of shoving things in closets to make this place presentable!  Oh – and hanging some quick Ikea curtains so we weren’t in our normal fishbowl!

We started off the day with a little hiccup – Auntie H and Cousin S had a little accident on the way, so they never made it … Sad face.  But we sent the husband to check on them & A and I met up with our friends E and baby PD & went walking on the boardwalk to see all the insane people jump into the ocean in 40 degree weather!  We thought it was just beautiful out!  However we were dressed in winter coats & the girls were all bundled up in their strollers…not half naked in bikini’s and such running into the ocean that has been snowed in for 2 months straight!  (not that you’d ever catch me running anywhere in a bikini…pretty sure not even in the privacy of my own home!)

ok so weird - i totally just got this off the Long Beach website and this was the first photo i clicked on, and its totally my friend N who just spent the whole day here and we love her! there were thousands of people and she's in the photo I randomly picked...weird! She's on the right 🙂

After a nice walk outside, we came home & finished up our cooking & started the party!  I didn’t take too many photos but here were some of our guests!

Little C

Little G

E & Little PD - who was being very camera shy! (sorry E for the bad photo...we are working with what we had!)

Cupcake Pro & Apprentice!

Aunt D and I made those neon cupcakes…and little K helped decorate!  The husband thought they were delicious!  He ate 8.

This was a great superbowl party!  So many babies and friends and family…and I was kept busy enough that I didn’t have to watch a single second of football!  But I did get to watch Glee with my family once the football was over.  It was great!

Thanks everyone for coming.  Maybe Auntie H will make it next year!

A makes little boys cry…

A’s going to be a handful.  A already is a handful!   This is really only my problem for the most part, until she enters someone else’s house, looking all sweet, and then….

Yea – A makes the boys cry.  I have to say, she really didn’t do anything this time, but something about her made these cuties “worry”!

Aren’t they adorable!

G on the left, J on the right

G has magnificent eyes.  One day A will be very jealous of those!  Hopefully one day J won’t be so scared of A & she can move her one girl show into the family room with these guys!  She decided on her own that she didn’t want to be the cause of J’s sadness so she went to empty my bag in the foyer!

Sorry Mom! I'll just play in your stuff for now!

Maybe we’ll try again another time and no one will have to worry – she’s really a nice girl.  She won’t let you mistake that for a push over, just ask cousin S, but she’s so sweet!  All she wants to do is give kisses!

Snow bunny…

First, Happy Birthday Grandpa & Cousin A Mash!

There are some babies who never see snow.  Granted, they live in way warmer places than we do, but up here there have definitely been years with just some flurries here or there.  This year – we’ve had more snow than I could ever need.  Snow…Ice…Sleet…gross.  When it falls its beautiful….the next day….its dirty.  I hate dirty snow!

I knew I wanted A to get to play in the pretty snow!  It took us about 30 minutes to get dressed for this playing in the snow thing…A had layers and layers, booties & mittens, a hat and a snowsuit.  Mommy had layers of ski clothes, a hat and no gloves.  How can I use a camera with big snow gloves!

Reminder, all I had was my zoom lens….which meant I had to put A down in the middle of the lawn and then jump through the snow to get away from her far enough to get some good shots!

This is how it ended!

How long did this take to go from sitting pretty in the snow to face planting???

28 seconds….I had a video but its not working so I’ll post that later!

 

Feeding time…

A is feeding herself now.  There’s not much she won’t eat, and if she sees you eating, she wants some!  She might only eat a bite or 2, but she wants some!

The one thing she won’t do…FEED HERSELF HER BOTTLE!!!!  It’s her way of manipulating me!  As soon as she sees the bottle, there’s whining and grunting and I hand it to her…and she pushes it and plays with it and then Mommy swoops in and holds it up for her.  Her arms go out to the sides and she breathes a sigh of relief as she eats!  I have no photos of this because I can’t possibly hold the camera AND the bottle!!!

Favorite foods include butternut squash, blueberries, clementines, Nagahama miso soup & vegetable gyoza and Sharon’s mac & cheese.

 

Yummy Yummy!

Isn't she cute in the morning?!

"oh a bottle...get over here..."

"Mommy...this is too heavy..."

"haha - fat chance Mommy!"

 

 

Oiy Hannukah Oiy Hannukah…

A’s first Hannukah!

She went to 2 Hannukah parties, got tons and tons of presents, loved all the wrapping paper (like all good babies do) and at the end, asked when Hannukah is coming again 😉

First party was at Grand Uncle & Aunt’s house with lots of cousins and a serious amount of presents!

Opening A's first Hannukah gelt....next year she can eat some!

 

Crawling away ... as usual

Favorite dog!

 

 

Next party was with Grandpa & B and A got to match PJ’s with Cousin S 🙂

A & Grandpa

With Auntie H & Great Gramma!

Princess Sophia

Matching Ladybugs!

I can’t believe this was 2 months ago.  Time is flying.

Baby in a basket…

"Oooh I'm in a basket!"

"What can I find in here"

"OOOH a Q!"

what is the face???!!!!

This is our new basket for our living room.  It’s intended to hold on to our things like throw blankets, toys, remotes….but A’s way cuter in it than any of those things!

Happy New Year!

Yea yea…its still 2011…even if it’s not Jan 1 🙂

We had Auntie E and Aunt D over for a Taco night & A tried to stay up wayyyy too late.  She’s really excited for 2011!  Plans include sleeping, eating more and more, playing, making new friends, having a kick ass 1st birthday party,  celebrating a lot of holidays with all her favorites, walking, running, dancing, jumping, swimming and way way more!

Here’s how we said good-bye to 2010!

Happy 2011 everyone 🙂

On the move…

I went to open my camera to take some photos the other day and sadly, my daily use lens was broken!  Something happened to the part that attaches to the camera body.  So I’m left with my zoom lens.  Its a great lens…for sightseeing; for spying on people; for seeing up someone’s nose from 10 miles away!  Not so great for getting baby to stay in one place while you capture adorable moments because she won’t stop crawling to you!

"Where do you think you're going Mommy?!"

"Down the hall huh..."

"I think I'm going to come too!"

"Yup...made it down the hall....now where...?"

"Oooh I know..."

"Almost there..."

"Ahhh little long sleeves and my playroom!!!!"