Pumpkin Patch

Last Friday me, Mike, the girls and Mike’s parents took a trip to Hammond to visit Ms. Heather’s Pumpkin Patch.  The last two years I brought Lilly to a pumpkin patch in Metairie so I could take some festive pictures of her (2009 and 2010), This year they were only open in the afternoon, aka naptime, so we decided to try out the pumpkin patch that all of our friends rave about.  We also combined it with some quality Amaw and Apaw time.  And now…the photobomb!  These are only picture from my camera, my MIL took tons of pictures too that I can’t wait to see.

Lilly and her pumpkin

I absolutely love this profile shot of Lilly, it shows her beautiful hair color as well as her crazy curls!

“Nook, Tigger’s eating at the pumpkin!” I love this kid

Pumpkin = ottoman in Raelynn’s eyes

She’s in the “I love my feet” stage

Lilly chasing Daddy

 

I found him!

 

Daddy was much braver than me..that thing would make me sick!

Daddy and Apaw hanging out with Raelynn

This is what Raelynn did for the majority of the trip

Oh the zipline…this made m very nervous

But Daddy was never far behind

He let go for a second, but stayed within arms reach

This was the second time, can you see the smile on Lilly’s face?

I sear I have 3 kids sometimes!

Amaw helped Lilly bounce.

[Insert picture from Amaw’s camera here]

I’m leaving a space for the picture that Apaw took of Mike and I acting like fools and bouncing on those red balls and laughing so hard we almost died!

Lilly picked out two very cute pumpkins

Then ran around some more

My baby pumpkin

She is so cute!

A Half Birthday Cake?

Do you remember two years ago when we celebrated Lilly’s first half birthday?  Well keeping with tradition I decided to make another half birthday cake for all of the April birthdays (Lilly, Raelynn and myself) in our house.  Lilly choose chocolate cake and pink frosting..smart girl knows how much Mommy loves chocolate! 

 

The first steps, leveling the cake then putting the filling inside

Crumb coat then in the freezer

After the crumb coat set I iced it and decorated it, then back in the freezer..I wanted it to stay nice and moist until the next day.

At first it looks like a plain ole’ birthday cake

Then you look at it from another angle

It’s only half a cake! I put lots of sprinkles and some luster dust on it to make it sparkle.  All girls like sparkles!

Just an artsy shot I took

 

The cake only took up half of the batter so I also made 24 mini cupcakes and froze them.  We will be eating those soon with mint icing on top of them. Daddy got to choose the icing of the cupcakes since he had to eat the pink sparkly cake last time :)

Baby Pumpkin

Raelynn and I went to our first playdate last Wednesday while Lilly was at school.  Raelynn had a wonderful time being an only child for the day.   I am really enjoying spending alone time with my baby girl, and giving her my undivided attention one day a week. 

The playdate was a lot of fun it was just moms and babies under 15 months.  So it was nice to have an adult conversation without a toddler interrupting.  They had a pumpkin set up to take pictures with I took oh about 100 pictures..her a a few of my favorites.

Swimming in the tub

Last week I asked Mike to give Lilly a bath so I could fold some laundry. Lilly normally takes a bath in her bathroom in the normal sized tub, no bubbles and a couple of toys.  Daddy put Momma’s normal bath routine to SHAME!  It took me a minute to figure out what was going on when I saw Mike walking from the girl’s bathroom to our bathroom with all of Lilly’s bath toys.  Moments later I hear our big tub filling with water. 

 

Look at all that water!

“Sticky bo-bos”  (bubble bath in Lilly speak)

This is Lilly’s “piggy duck”  it’s a pink rubber ducky with a big nose and ears.  I’m not really sure what they company was thinking when they made it but Lilly loves it!

 

After this awesome bath night I’m very surprised Lilly has not asked to “swim” in our tub again.

“Hey that’s not where I left you” II

We have a rolly polly baby now! She won’t stay still for anything.  If you put her on the floor she will barrel roll all around.  The other day I put her on her play mat, sat on the couch leaned over to my left where my lap top sits to check something then felt a cold little hand on my leg.  Raelynn rolled over to me to say “hello momma!”  It actually scared the poop out of me, at first I didn’t know what was touching my leg.  It took maybe 10 seconds for her to roll over and grab me.

 

Little stinker!  She started off in the middle of that mat next to her.

My cute nosey little girl

Playing outside

I’m sharing these pictures in one post but they are from different days. 

 

Cutie Raelynn watching Lilly and I play with sidewalk chalk.

Lilly wanted me to write daddy a note! 

 

Up, up and away! I wish I could say I thought of this myself, but I have to give credit to my obsession with pinterest for this one.

Lilly’s flower loot!  She collects flowers every time we go outside.

 

More flower loot up close

Just playing with my camera

bubbles! (or “bo-bo’s” in Lilly speak)

 

She’s such a ham

Cutie pie watching us play outside again.

Baby piggy toes

And baby fingers :)

Action shots

Mike got behind the camera again during Lilly’s soccer practice last week…

We also took professional pictures so you may notice a costume change.

 

Chasing a hoop..Lilly’s favorite game by far

Bringing the hoop back to Coach

Time for a water break, “Daddy I’m coming”

 

Cheese

Chasing Mommy with the noodle

She thinks this is hilarious

 

Action shot..she got me!

When is doubt duck!  I think this is right before I tripped on the noodle and fell on my butt.

Payback…Mommy’s turn!

 

Another fun week of soccer in the books!