Monday, January 11, 2010

Wesley's 2nd Birthday Party At Home

Friday night we celebrated Wesley's actual birthday with a small party at home.  That afternoon Wesley and I made brownies together.  This was our first time in the kitchen together baking (without him on my hip) and I must say he is an excellent helper.  We made brownie cupcakes and he stuffed a Reese Cup in the middle of each one! YUMMY!  Too bad his #2 looks slightly LARGE compared to his brownie cupcake.  Oh Well, the brownie was good!  Who cares how silly it looks!


Now this child blows on his food ALL THE TIME! He tells me "it's hot mommy" and blows on his food. But when he sees fire he is like a deer in head lights and will not blow out his candle!

Moving on to the gifts...His first gift (from Grammy and Pops) was a Tommy (a.k.a- Thomas the Train) locamotive "Lady" she is battery operated and shows all the men train how it is done....did I say that outloud?


Next Wesley got a drill (from Aunt Lauren and Will) that moves and makes noise!! Oh he was THRILLED!!


On the next gift, guess what he used to help him disassemble the packaging??? The drill.


The night before Collins read to Wesley all about NC State Baseball and Wesley made him read it OVER and OVER again 5 times before he would let him continue.  Without knowing my parents got Wesley a ball and glove!! Wesley went to the moon and back! He was so excited!!  We might have a baseball player on our hands and a few broken windows in the years to come!


Wesley also received a dump truck from Uncle Ryan and we were unable to get good pictures of him opening it because as soon as he saw it he said "open that daddy!" and pretty much chucked it at him! 

Wesley and his Grandparents!! The boy had no time for pictures he wanted to play ball!!


Wesley, we love you so much and you make us so proud!! Happy Birthday!!


Thank you to everyone who remembered our sweet boy on his 2nd birthday!

Friday, January 8, 2010

Happy 2nd Birthday Wesley

Happy Birthday Wesley! I can't believe how much you have grown in 2 short years!


You are so loved my busy little boy!


Where you are today on your second birthday on Jan 8th

1. Food Likes: Anything sweet, pasta, shrimp
2. Food Dislikes: Green beans, corn
3. Favorite Toys: balls, tools, and trains
4. Favorite Phrases: "I donna know" or "Where are we?" (in the car)
5. Favorite Playmate: His beloved sister or sissy
6. Favorite Movie: (when you get to watch TV) Bob the Builder
7. He still has a pacifier at nap/night (soon to be elminated) and two blankets he sleeps with
8. Wesley is a momma's boy - and I LOVE IT!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WESLEY!!

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Welsey Talk



I have to write this down before I forget because Wesley is at this awesome stage of really exploring his speech capabilities and he is so funny to talk too and listen too.

Wesley use to refer to himself as the "Worker Man" now if you ask him if he is the worker man he says "No, I am the man."

Ask him if he wants to go to bed....immediate response is "NO WAY!!!"

In the car to MOPS he asked me "Wesley eat grass?"  I said "No Wesley doesn't eat grass cows and horses eat grass."  Then for fun I would name lots of family members names to see if they eat grass...
   Does mommy eat grass?  - NO WAY
   Does Wesley eat grass?   - NO WAY
   Do cows eat grass?   -  uh huh
   Does Daddy eat grass?  -  No way! 
   Does sissy eat grass?    -  uh huh-  oh-  NO WAY  (we laughed the whole trip)

Final one...Wesley loves batteries.  Yes batteries.  Weird...um, yes.  Well he tends to put them in his pocket and store them  for in case he needs them for an emergency~ I guess. We went to our neighbors' house and they had a flashlight on their refridge and he pulled it off and tried to get it to turn on but he couldn't.  He went up to my neighbor and said "It broke, it needs batteries" and pulled out two batteries from his pocket.  The boy is prepared!!

New Year's Eve Party

Happy New Years!!  This year we decided to bring in the new year with Oyster Roast!  Everything was perfect except the rain, the 5o'clock news missed on seeing!  Oh Well, the party must go on!

Some of the best moments of the nights were watching the children. I missed out on taking a picture of all the children but we had a total of 10 children here.  I think they all had so much fun!



About 9PM it stopped raining.  Then the pary moved outside.  Wesley loved the idea of playing outside in the dark!


The Oyster Roast.  The Oysters were wonderful!  Even people who do not like orsters normally thought they were yummy!! Must be the new pot we got after our last oyster roast!


The Master Cook! 


The guest of honor was Donna and Baker! They came all the way from FL for our oyster roast. Just kidding!  It was so wonderful to see them!


The life saver for me was having my mom here for the party!  She was such a help with watching the children.  Thank you mom!!
                                       
Daddy and Wesley New Years Eve!
                       
I am such a lucky girl!! I have some wonderful freinds.       

I think the party was a success!!   Everyone enjoyed themselves!! From big to, to the small to the unborn!


Britian the Party Girl!
                                           
Happy New Years!!

                                            

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Christmas Round 2

The weekend after Christmas my parents came down to celebrate Christmas with our family.  Oh the kids were excited to open presents again!

Lawson helping Wesley opening presents.  He was not too thrilled with her help!!


Lawson received a digital Barbie Camera from Aunt Lauren and Uncle Will.  She is now like her mommy...she doesn't go anywhere without her camera. I will download some of her pictures soon!


Wesley just being cute!! His funny moment of the morning:  Lawson was not acting her best and she and I got into a little battle of the wills (saying it nicely) well as we got a little louder Wesley stands in the middle of us puts out his hands like he is trying to separate a fight and says "Stop guys, stop!!"  That helped lighten the mood!


Lawson getting some extra love from Nana!


Wesley got a new tractor and said "Cool"



Then as soon as he would get a gift he would say to Dah "Open that Dah, Open that!!"  Dah was very busy all morning

Cooking is not a womens job in this house. Collins got a new Bunt Pan (ours was bent/eaten by our dog Chewy).  He was very excited!


Then the kids got a new microwave.  Wesley was thrilled!! He now doesn't have to make the beeping noise any more and this spins in order to cook the food more evenly! Big plus!!


And lack of patients is apparently genetic...look at his face waiting for food!!


Thank you Mom, Dad, Lauren, Will and Uncle Ryan for all of our wonderful gifts!! 

Christmas Baking

Christmas is not complete in this home until someone makes Sugar Cookies...per my husband. So Christmas evening we made Christmas cut-out cookies.  Cut out cookies was not a tradition in my home growing up but it will be in my childrens' home.  Grammy and Lawson showed us how it was done!!


Don't forget about little guy.  He had an important job to pick out the cut-outs.


Then we got to decorate. Someone was caught red handed stealing some toppings...not mentioning any names...


Everyone got to decorate a cookie or 2.  So much fun!


I bet you can pick out the kids cookies!


Final Results- YUMMY YUMMY!!

A wonderful yummy tradition to start in our family!! I think it is a hit!!

I have some catching up to do on blog land...it is already 2010 and I am still posting about Christmas!!

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Back to Christmas Morning

TIME TO OPEN PRESENTS!!
After a wonderful Christmas Breakfast Casserole it was time for presents!!

Mr and Mrs Claus...someone was still asleep...


A sweet Christmas hug from my little girl!


Pops and Grammy got some wonderful gifts!  A scrapbook from Gale to James and Taylor got Grammy a authentic Hurricane Jersey. 


There are way to gifts to capture them all but some of the funny moments was Wesley opening up all of his gifts with his screwdriver! 


The theme for the morning was being a Worker Man or Woman!!


Everyone got to participate!!


Our Christmas was AMAZING!! Thank you to Grammy, Pops, & Taylor for all of the wonderful gifts!! We are so thankful!


Today we are preparing for my parents to come into town so we can have Christmas with them!! Yippee Round 2!!

Also, today is my birthday!! I am 29 agian, and again...oops and again!! I have to remember as I look in the mirror and see a few more lines on my face it is not how old you are but how young you feel....I still feel 25!

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Christmas Morning- Santa has delivered

There truly is nothing like Christmas Morning when you have children in the home.  Lawson woke us all up very quietly and said "Merry Christmas!! I think I heard jingle bells last night and Santa was here!!" Yippee!! Christmas Morning has arrived!! My favorite time of the year!!

Grammy holding the kids back for the big reveal!


Can we come down now???


Santa has visited our home!!!


Look at that!!!


Wesley wasn't so sure!


Then he found the tool bench (for both children) and he was all warmed up!!


Wait..look a here...there is a train table too!!


In a matter of minutes it was taken apart


Lawson playing with the train and Wesley being the "Worker Man" and "fixing" it!


Look at Miss Lawson testing out her new ride!!


Lawson making sure Santa ate his cookies and the Reindeer ate their carrots!


Lawon checking out her stocking but wait...why is daddy's tool set out???? Yikes!


Time to take a chocolate break and we will get back to Christmas Morning!!