Happy 30th Birthday, Cam!

Happy Birthday to my sweet husband! Today he turns the BIG 3...0!!!! He's almost in a different age bracket than I am! Okay, he is, but he's still young at heart which is one of the many things I love about him.

So in an effort to keep things fun for his 30th birthday, I planned a surprise party, but in the beginning stages of that, he mentioned he DID NOT want a party of any kind, so I canceled that and decided to go with something cheesy, but meaningful.... I spent all night last night cutting out and making 30 of these candles that have 30 reasons why I love Cam on them. I taped them all over his car at work (so I'm really hoping, Cam, that today is not one of those "blue moons" where you happen to look at our blog... unless you already have and have seen this post and now know what's waiting outside for you on your car... in that case, SURPRISE!); and yes, Hallie helped! I'm so grateful I am able to spend your 30th with you, and many more to come! You are the sweetest husband and the best Dad ever. I LOVE YOU!

Preschool Fieldtrip: the Science Museum

This month I was in charge of the preschool fieldtrip so we went to the science museum, Hallie's favorite place! We have been learning about our five senses so the kids got to review and use all their senses with the fun things the museum had for them to play with. Here are the kids with Stephanie (one of the other teacher's/mom's).

There was a slanted room which is built on a slant against gravity (the weirdest feeling ever)... three of the seven kids got injured after playing in this lopsided room, two of which had blood... in hindsight, we wouldn't have gone in there!?

Sydnee is looking at the slant in the floor thinking, "That's not right." The poor girl has just learned to walk and her Mommy decides to take her in the most dangerous incline ever... have at it Syd...


She doesn't know what to make of the slant, so she just joins the rest and falls down...

There was a cool water table (where Sydnee thought it'd be funny to keep licking the water from it off her fingers; as demonstrated below)... YUCK and HELLOOOO germs!?


Me, being the germaphobe that I am, I start having a panic attack on the spot and pour all the hand sanitizer I can on her hands, only for her to do it again when I'm not looking. I can only imagine what kind of sickness she'll get from that in another week... H1N1 anyone??


They also got to touch and see some sea urchin's, a star fish, and crabs from the Atlantic Ocean. They even got to see the sea urchin's eat fish and shrimp that the worker's fed them! That was a fun treat!

Here's Hallie touching the star fish which is on top of this snail...

Hallie's 4th Birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HALLIE!!!

Hallie turned four this week, and last weekend as a special gift to her, Daddy took her on a date to see "The Princess and the Frog" movie. Hallie wanted to get dressed in nice clothes and was looking forward to their date all week, and they had so much fun going together.

On Hallie's birthday, I taught preschool, so we had a little birthday party for her with cupcakes and then Daddy came home for lunch so Hallie could open her presents from her family and the grandma's and grandpa's. Hallie got a view finder from G&G Drake, and she got doll clothes for her American Girl doll from G&G Voge.

Hallie's party is next weekend... so stay tuned!

The Girls in Their "Pretty's"

Sydnee has developed this obsession with dressing up in tutu's and jewelry lately, it's so cute. When she wants me to put her dress-up clothes on she says, "Mommy, pretty's? Please?" Once I put the tutu on, it's a fight to get it off at the end of the day. Last year for Christmas, Aunt Nicole made the hot pink tutu for the girls and Sydnee has kind of taken possession of that one and doesn't like to share it. So, since Hallie's birthday party this month is another princess one as well as a dress-up party, I decided to make Hallie a tutu too (mine's the pastel colored tutu) for her party. One night, I caught the girls playing princesses in their tutu's, it was so cute!

Sledding

We took the girls sledding a couple weeks ago and this was Syd's first year sledding, she actually did pretty good in the cold, considering her feet are still so small (size 2 shoe!) that they don't make boots small enough for her, so we had to improvise with lots of pairs of socks and a size 4 boot! We all had fun, especially Hallie. She was able to go down the kiddie hill all by herself this year and she loved it! Sydnee and I were ready to go LONG before Daddy and Hallie were, but I'm so grateful that Cam stayed a little longer to play with Hallie. He's such a good Daddy!

I love this picture with Cam and the girls!