Mykell's Birthday Party

Did I misspell my daughters name, you are wondering?  Did she have a birthday already?  Man, they really do grow fast!  No, no, no... this is a different Mykell, not to be confused with our baby McKel.  This Mykell did however, inspire our baby girl's name.

My friend Nichole threw a princess-themed birthday party for her daughter Mykell and we were invited.  Our whole family walked the 3 blocks to their house, since the weather was actually not horrid.  My poor Jesse must've felt terribly out of place at the Princess party.  What a good sport.  The girls all got tutus and necklaces, pink-painted fingernails, and hair makeovers (not Av, I don't think she could sit still long enough for these fancy hair-dos).
Here are some party pics:

Nothing sweeter...

Avril checking out the party scene

Yup, I think I could get in to this princess thing!

What do you mean, the party's not for me?

Mykell, the birthday girl is on the right, and is 5 years old!  She absolutely LOVED opening her presents.

V Day

Valentine's Day is way more fun when you have kids.  Then you have an excuse to hand make fun Valentine's Day cards, just like back in the days of elementary school.  I got all excited to have Avril and McKel help out.  What?  They're too young you say?  Nonsense.  Well, McKel may be a little young to handle the scissors but that doesn't mean she couldn't help out.  I was inspired by looking at my friend Lindsay's blog (Lindsay, you didn't even know I stole your idea... sorry!) and I decided to make heart shapes out of little footsie-prints.  So fun!  Avril loved having her feet painted pink.  McKel thought it was pretty cool too... at least I think.  Here was the result:

On the back I let Avril do some artwork scribbles and we wrote a nice V Day message of love.  We made some for the grandparents that we delivered as well.

Little did I know that my creative hubby pulled out the lovey dovey paper and glue as well.  Here is the Valentine I found when I walked downstairs:

 I just love my smoochy poo Valentine :)

Oh, and its hard to tell from this pic but I left my lovey a special note on the mirror with soap:

Notice how I am carrying both of my mini Valentine girls.  I am super Mommy!

So my other idea for Val Day was to make a yummy scrumptious fruit pizza from a recipe I found online.  Nothing says I love you like a fruit pizza, right?  Well, here was what happened with my first attempt:

Somehow I don't think this is what was supposed to happen.  Nevertheless, this still tasted scrum-diddly-umptious and got gobbled up very quickly.

And here is my 2nd attempt, the finished product:

Now that's a Valentine you can really sink your teeth in to.  I'm pretty sure the hubby liked it since the entire thing disappeared in a matter of minutes.

My Valentine surprised me with taking the night off of work and treating me to dinner at Cafe Sabor, a fave of mine.  Papa Bryan babysat little Av, and little Mick joined us to dine sleep while we dined.  It was a fabulous love-filled day!

Bragging Rights

Today is McKel's 2 month birthday!  She also had her 2 month check up at the doctor... which meant shots :(  So not fun for mommy or baby.  The Doc showed us her stats and said to keep them for bragging rights.  He said McKel is measuring about a month ahead.  I'm not sure if being big is something to brag about but if so, McKel totally takes the cake.  We were sure right about her being a BIG, beautiful baby.  Here are her 2 month stats:

Length:  61.59 cm  (97%)
Weight:  5.58 kgs  (86%)
Head Circumference:  39.75 cm  (76%)

In case you don't believe me:

And here is what McKel looks like at 2 months:

 She just keeps getting cuter!

Zzzz's

Last night McKel slept straight from 9:30 pm until 5:00 am. That's 7 1/2 hours! If only I could've enjoyed it properly. Instead I kept getting up to check on her and make sure she was still breathing. I am used to her waking up every 3 hours to nurse. I wonder how long she'll sleep tonight.

Both kids are in bed and I was so excited to do a quickie post and get to bed. However, I got sucked in to blogger world and started looking at fun blogs. Now my mind is racing with thoughts of all these new fun projects I want to do, and cool new things I want to learn how to do. Then I just get discouraged since I can't even finish my current projects with all my mommy duties. Uggh. How do all these other mommies do it? Slowly but surely, I'll figure it out. I'm still getting the hang of this being a mommy of two... two of the sweetest, most adorable precious angels in the whole world. I can't say it enough... I just LOVE my girls :) 

Little Courtney Crockett (just over a week old) and McKel.. 2nd cousins.  She makes McKel look like a giant!  Isn't it cute how they're latching arms?

McKel was so happy to have found a friend somewhat close to her size.

Today I walked in to my room and found this little miss mischief in mommy's make up drawer.  I'm not sure Avril has quite figured out why it's called "lip" stick.  Or else she thinks her lips extend way up onto her cheek.

Avril's so proud of herself for figuring out how to apply make up all by herself.

Today was the Super Bowl.  Packers vs. the Steelers.  We got a special treat!  Shelby came for a visit (now lives in Montana before leaving for the Army) with his friend Skyler.  I really didn't care who won but I decided to root for the Packers since its not nice to steal.  So yay, my team won!

Here is McKel watching the football game intently.

Go my favorite sports team!  Make a goal touchdown!

No words

I think I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves.  I'm feeling like a sicko today.

 

 

 

 

Spring Fever

Is it still January?  We are so ready for winter to be over.  Jesse pulled out our new wagon from Santa and took Avril cruising in it.  We all have a bad case of the Spring fever.  We've had it with playing indoors... lets go play outside!

Some of My Favorites

We just got the digital images back from our 2 week photo shoot with McKel.  I was going to post a handful of my favorites, but a handful turned in to 2 handfuls... and then some.  I am so bad at choosing favorites.  They're all my favorites.
Brian Regan does a funny clip about favorites.  I found the quote online... he is referring to a kid getting a snowcone:
"GRAPE! I'm gonna get grape, or cherry. They're both... favorites, so either one is good, but if they have both, I'll get grape, because grape is a little more favorite. But if they don't have grape it's like alright its fine, cause cherry's favorite anyway. It's like another favorite, but not as much. Not as much favorite. But they're both good. They're both good."
These are my favorites.  They're all good.  :)