Happy Birthday To Me!

August 16, 2011

Here is my 33rd birthday celebration at work:

 Yummy cupcakes by Christi!

 My delicious tres leches cake that my hubby had waiting when I got home!  Mmmmm.  I wish I had a piece now.  Instead, these 33 year old eyes are getting heavy so I'm going to call it night after this post.  More updates will be on the way....

Art in the Tub

August 14, 2011

I got the kids some new bathtub markers to play with and Hudson drew me a masterpiece right away!

Fun At The Splash Pad

August 12, 2011

I decided to take the kids down the road to the new Splash Pad!  They loved it!  I loved it!  It is such a great park with a perfect set up.  The kids had fun splashing and running though the water.  After they were done on the splash pad, we walked over to the playground where they played until they were dry enough to get back into the car and head home.

Katrina's Birthday Party

August 7, 2011

We had a party-packed weekend!  Hudson's next birthday party was, his girlfriend, Katrina's party.  It was our first time to attend a Chuck-E Cheese and I hope we don't have to go again!  The bathrooms were completely disgusting and I felt like I needed to coat myself with anti-bacterial lotion from head to toe!  Then it was next to impossible to get Hudson out of the hamster tunnels.  I had to hide and pretend I left him in order to scare him out.  I was sooooo angry.  It was not enjoyable at all.  I didn't allow him to have his goodie bag due to the fact he would not leave when it was time.  When we got home he asked me to come sit on the stairs with him so we could have a chat and he proceeded to try his very best to convince me to hand over the goodie bag.  No luck Chuck!

John's Birthday Party

August 6, 2011

Hudson's buddy from school, John, celebrated his 5th birthday at The Woodlands Recreation Center.  It was a Lego themed party so the kids got to build cars out of Legos and race them.

Oh Londie Lu...

August 2011

I feel like a broken record as I continually catch myself telling people London is a feisty one but boy is she!  This girl does not lack personality! 

She finds dinner time to be entertainment time.  I think she feels like her special chair puts her on a bit of a stage.  She makes faces, sings songs, talks non-stop, and usually tells us how much she doesn't like her food...."I don't like it!" she says.  Unless there is ketchup for her to stick her fingers in and then she tells us, "I like ketchup! mmmm!".  She's also a big fan of chicken, lunch meat (not on a sandwich), and fruit.  Right now her fruit of choice is either grapes or apples.

She is suddenly Ms. Independent.  We constantly hear, "No, I do it!".  She wants to walk into school (no more carrying her) with her backpack on, holding Hudson's hand...soooooo cute!  She must walk up and down the stairs all by herself.  If you try to help her in or out of a vehicle, you can be sure a tantrum will ensue.  However, she is still super, duper snugly and sweet as pie.

She is a major girlie girl.  She finally loves hair bows and she has a major shoe addiction.  She loves walking around with a purse and sunglasses.  She loves anything soft that she can hold close, wrap around herself, or feel with her fingers.  She's a girlie girl...no doubt. 

She gets in trouble a lot for saying, "Hush your mouth!".  I've decided to start ignoring her because getting onto her only makes her say it more.  It is very hard to discipline her because she is a little parrot. If I say, "London, no!", she says, "Mommy, no!".  It goes on and on so I just have to put her in time out and hope she gets the point.

She is very, very smart.  She has been able to count to 10, knows all of her basic shapes and colors, and can say her ABC's ever since late/spring early summer.  She has already started to memorize her favorite books.  Some of which include: Brown Bear, Good Night Moon, and Little Princess.  She LOVES books.  We usually have to read through nearly every book she has when I sit down to read with her.  She also LOVES puzzles and it amazes me how fast she can do some of the more difficult ones.  She also really wants to start sitting on the potty all of the time.  She gets really mad if I'm in a hurry when changing her diaper and I don't let her sit on the potty for a while after I take her diaper off.  HOPEFULLY this is a sign she'll be easy to potty train when she gets just a little bigger.

Those Dang I-Teeth!

August 3, 2011 (yes, I'm that far behind!)

London was having a hard time with her last few teeth coming through so she decide to take her frustrations out on her friends and sunk her teeth into them.  She actually met the "3 bite limit" at school so I had to leave work to go pick her up.  I had recently taken her binkies away but the school suggested I give them back until her teeth come in.  So, we got to go through breaking the binky habit twice.  However, giving them back to her did work and she stopped biting her friends.

This was the day I had to pick her up (she was very happy to get those binkies back...so much so that she thought 2 would be better than one!):

Real Steel

Guy's Day Out at the movies:

Jason used a little bribery to snap Hudson out of a naughty spell.  For some reason he had been acting up at school a little bit so Jason told him if he could be good for the entire week then he would take him to a movie.  Jason had his fingers crossed that Hudson would hold up his end of the bargain because he really wanted to see Real Steel.  Hudson was very good so off they went!  Hudson was very excited that they also got to eat a hot dog and ice cream while they were there.  Jason said the movie was like a robot version of Rocky so he had good reviews.

Pizza With Daddy

I'm getting there...slowly but surely!!  I've got to speed things up with my blog backlog!

Back in the day, Jason used to work at our local Sonic knock-off (I need to ask him what it was called because I can't remember anymore!).  They used to make pizzas there and Jason learned the techniques to making some quality pizza crust.  Therefore, he is our resident pizza maker!  He and the kids had fun making pizzas for dinner one night.  I must say, they were pretty delicious!!

Shoes

This girl is addicted to shoes!  If there is a shoe on that is not on someone else's foot, she claims it as her own.  She loves the sound of my high heels clicking on the tile.  

We were at a friend's pool party and I spent more time returning all of the stolen shoes throughout the day than I did playing in the pool.  However, I have to say, there is something terribly cute about a small little girl wearing around grown up shoes!