Happy New Year!

May the new year bring
The warmth of home and hearth to you.
The cheer and goodwill of friends to you,
The hope of a childlike heart to you.
The joy of a thousand angels to you,
The love of the Son and God's peace to you.
- Irish blessing

Thanks to Make and Takes for the great glasses idea!

Baby Girl turns 3!

Happy Birthday, Pretty Layla! (Although you're hardly a baby anymore...I'll always call you my baby)!

We had a great time celebrating with you at Chuck E. Cheese this evening. And we talked a lot today about your party we had in June.


And, just for fun...a picture of you, 3 years ago today!


And the fun part of turning 3...interviewing you on your new favorites.

Color? yellow and green (really? I've never heard this before, but I guess I haven't really asked, either)

Food? Yogurt (that's pretty true, but also exactly what she was eating when I asked) she's a pretty good eater, except for dinner, she doesn't eat anything then)

Show? Dora

Character? Dora

Song? "Jingle, Jingle little Poop" followed by giggles from both her and Big Brother. Oh the joys of having an older brother for such a sweet little girl. She had been singing Jingle Bells just moments before (that's what reminded me to ask these questions) and I know that's what she was talking about.

Book? Dora, of course

Sport to play? I don't have sports...pretty true, she just gets stuck with whatever Big Brother wants to play

Sport to watch? Just Spiderman. Pretty random, but that's another of Big Brother's favorites.

Holiday? Christmas

Snack? blueberries (again, that's what's currently in her bowl), but she often sneaks sandwich cheese all by herself

Thing to do with Mommy? "have a snack" not really sure what that means, but it's what she said

Thing to do with Daddy? wrestle

Thing to do with Peyton? play air hockey

Place to go: bowling

Best Friends: Austin, Alex, Ayden and Reuben

Animal: baby elephant

This is very fun to compare to what was said almost one year ago.

Overheard

Things Mommy and Daddy overheard last night, long after bedtime, but obviously before there were actually sleeping children upstairs...

"It's boring"

"When is it going to get dark?" Remember, where we live at this time of the year, it's dark at dinner time.

"Layla is wasting water." We should've listened to this one and taken action, when we finally did we found not water, but soap, all over their bathroom.

"What are we doing tomorrow?" This is a question asked every single night before going to sleep.

"When's it going to be summertime?"

"She's bothering me." It has been requested many nights for her to be in bed with him, we tried it, this was one of the responses, but when she was then moved to her own bed, a meltdown occurred because, "I wanted her in my bed." My inside voice (that's the one in your head): "Well, then don't complain about being bothered, we are being bothered by your constant voices hours after you are supposed to be asleep...NO MORE NAPS for Miss L."

"Do better at posting on your blog." Oh, wait, that was my inside voice again. But as you can see, I'm back and trying to be more regular in my posting. I've already completed most of the post about the special activities of today, but I need Miss L to answer some fun questions for me tomorrow and then I'll post for all to see how we celebrated her birthday. And maybe someday, I'll get caught up and actually go back and post about our fun fall and Christmas activities of 2009. But, for now, my goal is to simply stay current with all the fun we're going to be having each day in 2010.