Anora's Second Birthday

Just gonna load this one full of Pictures

Favorite Picture of Tink and I

Some of the decorations for the party.

I loved this balloon tower.

Mommy's homemade strawberry delight cupcakes.Wreath I made

Anora opening her gifts.

Anora had a wonderful 2nd birthday. Thank you to all who were able to attend. For those who were not able to make it....we missed you dearly. I know that if you could have been there you would have. Anora is loving her new outfits and so is Mommy.

That is one serious little face

Someone musta threatened to take her cupcake

Chef Anora

I came home last night to Daddy and Chef Anora making homemade pizza's for Tink. I have been having an awful time as of late getting the little one to eat much of anything lately and she just Loves Cheese Pizza as most kids do. However I can NOT eat the same thing night after night so I came up with the idea to try individual sized pizzas for Tink. We used cooked biscuits cut in half for the crust, pizza sauce and of course cheese for our oh so fanciful pizzas. Anora loved the idea that she got to help.

Stirring the sauce while the biscuits bake

Still stirring and looking oh so cute.

Still stirring..... thanks to Aunt Sarah for the chef hat and
Aunt Tammy for the Apron

Finished product. Peeling off the cheese.

After all that hard work all she ate was the sauce.

I tell you I just can't figure the kid out. She loves cheese, she loves bread but only ate the sauce??? UGH!!!

Oh well I think she had a great time being able to help cook as she says. We love having her at the counter that is why we bought her the tower. We envisioned this very thing when we bought it. We both love being in the kitchen, Daddy cooks and I bake. Who knows maybe someday she will be the next great chef.

Sweet Angel

Anora and I had a wonderful morning this morning. I awoke to her crawling next to me to cuddle and get warm. You see she sleeps with us and it is the best part of my day especially now when she would much rather run around and play than hold still for hugs and kisses. I love having her cuddle in next to me and lay there quietly until she falls asleep. She will snuggle into the crook of my neck and I can feel her breathe against my neck. And then just before she falls off to sleep she sits up and ask for one more kiss. It is the best thing ever. I truly treasure this time as I know it won't last forever. Can you see why it is the best part of my day. I get to hold her and cuddle with her first thing in the morning and last thing at night.

Anyway as I was saying after our few minutes of lying there and trying to talk our selves into getting up we crawl out of bed. I'm carrying her on my hip while I get her breakfast and my breakfast and my pills (she won't let me put her down.) We head over to the table to sit down, I put her in her booster seat. She begins to cry again and lets me know she needs more cuddle time. Okay no problem. I put her on my lap and begin eating my breakfast as she eats hers on my lap. I tried to give her a blueberry waffle but she has requested what Mommy is eating a Cherry Pop Tart. Okay so we have pop tarts together. Daddy calls to on my phone to make sure we are awake as he does every morning. And as Anora does every morning she shows whatever she is eating to the phone as if Daddy can see her and then she shows him that she has milk to drink as if he can see this as well. She then leans into the phone for a kiss "mmmmmmm" and a hug she pretends to hug it and then says "byeee" and waves to Daddy. It is all too cute and sweet. After I finish my Pop Tart she puts hers down and turns around in my lap to face me and look into my eyes smile give me a kiss and hug me. I melted. So what if I am late getting ready for work if she wants to have a little more time with me so be it. This too won't last forever. I have to grab these moments when I can as they will become every so assuredly more and more spaced apart. Anora then gets down from my lap takes me into the bedroom and wants to get back into bed. So I spent the next few minutes lying in bed with her stroking her hair and telling her I loved her more than anything else in the world.

I only hope she stays as sweet as she is now. She is such a love bug and sweet hearted little girl. I hope that never changes. I would like to think it is because she is surrounded by tons of love. But I also think it is just who she is.

I love you so much Tink and I hope you continue to be so loving and warmhearted. And just know that Daddy and I will always be here for the hugs and kisses.

THE Halloween Costume

Okay for those of you still with me, forgive me it has been awhile since my last post.

I shall give you some insight into my crazy, crazy mind. Sit back relax and laugh.

I have known for sometime what Anora's Halloween costume would be. I had it picked out in early August.

So I purchased a cute little treat bag to coordinate with her costume.

Then I had these shoes special made on Etsy to match her costume.

Now drum roll please...............

THE costume.

Isn't it just magnificent. I mean really could it be any stinking cuter? Okay so I put off buying the actual costume until October the 1st when technically they went on sale. Previous to that you could only pre-order. Well I got my first taste of being a parent and not realizing that you have picked the most popular item on the planet for your kid. October 1st came and everyone, and I mean everyone everywhere was sold out. Only a few places were still even taking pre-orders "just in case" they got another shipment. No guarantee. My heart sank. I just knew how adorable she would be in this costume and I suddenly felt like I had failed her. Now I know she has no idea about Halloween or what it means she is only 21 months old for cripes sake, but that didn't matter. I was set on seeing her in this costume and having everyone else see her in this costume.

So as I said I put in an order for a backorder paying just as much in shipping as I did for the costume itself, just to give myself more time for the costume to come in and get her in time. I crossed my fingers and prayed.

In the meantime I went out and got her another costume that I am not at all that pleased with. It is some fairy costume, but I bought it on the off chance that if THE costume came through then this could be used for dress up throughout the year.. I had to do something, I mean she could not NOT get dressed up and go trick or treating right??? Then of course I had to buy a coordinating treat bag. I couldn't very well use the one I already had. It has paw prints, Hello paw prints and fairies DO NOT mix. Then I had to buy coordinating shoes. Did you see the poodle on the high top tennis shoes people... High top tennis shoes don't go with a fairy costume either. Not too mention if i put her in that hodge podge outfit I felt like someone might figure out my dirty little secret. I felt it SCREAMED "I screwed up and am not a perfect Mom".

As most of you know I finally got the costume this week on October the 26th. The day it arrived I opened it in front of Anora and as soon as the box was open she gasped and said "CU" which is how she says cute. It was the moment I dreamed of. I took it out of the box and handed it to her still on the hangar. She turned and showed it to Grandma and said "cu, cu". I am still beaming; she loves it as much as I do. Then I take her to the bathroom and stand her in front of the mirror so I can put the hat on her. She is so excited and keeps saying "cu, cu, cu, cu over and over again. I stopped myself there because I wanted to wait for Daddy before I tried the rest of it on. I didn't want him to miss any more of this. So I went back to work dreaming about the 2 of us coming home to share this magical moment when we put her costume on and she runs around the house all happy and we hug and beam at our "fricking adorable" baby. Well for anyone who has had kids knows they run hot and cold. So for the entire night I keep asking her to put it on and she says "uh uh", she is cranky and I fear that if I struggle with her to put it on now that she will not want to wear it on Halloween so I back off....a little anyway. I asked her the next night for about an hour and then let it go.

Well when I was home today for lunch she was in a great mood so I tried and she let me put it on. She was excited and happy to see it on. She wanted to put it on in front of the mirror so that she could see. I had to take pictures and video since Daddy wasn't there. Sorry Daddy I couldn't pass up the oppurtunity. I hope you forgive me >

I know not a great pic but its with my phone so I can't really hold still enough.

And now for some video...

And now her shaking her butt so that the tail wags.

Keep your fingers crossed she is in a good mood on Sunday and I get a picture perfect Halloween.

Well thats all. I hope you laughed a little along my long winded journey.

Love,

Craigslist find

I have been on the hunt for a preschool climber for Anora since she has started with the climbing. Daddy has been checking craigslist everyday for this climber most of the time people wanted $400 dollars for this thing USED. I know it retails for $600 but come on she is only probably gonna use it for 18 months 2 years tops before we get her a full sized swingset. Anyway we found this one for $200... much better I can live with that even though I still think it is way too much money. Anora loved it and we almost couldn't get her inside for dinner.

This is my favorite picture of her that I got that day.

Just chillin on the bridge

She liked sitting on the stools in the little kitchen clubhouse.

Too cute she is standing on her tip toes playing with the fold down table.

Thinking about going down the slide.

Fun with my hat

Anora found this hat in her closet from last winter. Obviously it was too big last year but I think it will be just great this year. Too fricking adorable!

Sorry no pictures

I felt I needed to put up a new blog but I have no pictures as I can't get my new laptop to cooperate with my camera. I will figure it out soon though. Anyway wow how time is just flying by, she is such a big helper and has gotten almost all of her teeth. She has been on a teething spurt as of late and when she does they just come in one after another. I guess its good on one hand because it is over faster and not so drawn out. On the other hand it means she doesn't eat very much nor take very long naps all of which lead to a very cranky baby.

She helps with everything now, laundry, putting her toys away, cleaning up, sometimes she gets a little over zealous and does things that mommy and daddy don't want done.. like turn the fan towards the wall, something Grandma does at naptime. She sees you do something one time and she is ready to jump in and help. Like I was putting my clothes in the hamper and Anora started rounding up any piece of clothing she could find and putting it into the hamper. I tried to explain to her the diference between dirty clothes and clean clothes but I believe it went over her head as evidenced by the blank stare on her face.

I have much more to update but I really like to post pictures so I will try to get them uploaded soon.

'til then