Sesame Street Live

Sunday our family went to the Fox Theatre in Detroit and watched Sesame Street Live. This was a very fun musical for Carys to see and it was very fun for us to watch how excited she was. The show with intermission was 90 minutes long. It was about the new music teacher on Sesame Street, Jenny, waiting for the truck to arrive with all of her instruments. In the meantime, all of the animals and monsters that lived on Sesame Street found items to use to make music, the trash can, their feet, their voice, etc. It was a great time.When the music started Carys started yelling "Elmo". She didn't really become interested in Elmo until our trip to the Anthony's. Since then, we watch Sesame Street on PBS, bought a video and play with the Elmo dolls at the store. We were going to buy a souvenir at the show and I presented Carys with a choice of the big Elmo doll or the little Elmo doll. She saw that ball and it was all over. So we have added one one more ball to our huge collection.

Glamour Girl

"I love my new jewels. I look and feel so G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S!!"

Back to December

Sorry it has been so long since there has been an update. December was crazy and full of a lot of fun things to do. The best was Carys got her cast off of her arm!! YEAH!! Her arm is 100% back to normal use. She never missed a beat with her cast. Carys continued to color, paint, bake and build. Right before her cast was removed we had a huge snow storm. We all bundled up to go out and play. No mittens would fit over Carys' cast, so we improvised. Her mitten consisted of two of my thick footies. She loved to climb up the snow mound that her daddy shoveled and tried to make snowballs. After playing in the snow we came back inside to have some hot coca...hot oval-tine and milk for Carys. We spent a lot of December baking. We made our first gingerbread house. Carys enjoyed eating the candies that were meant to decorate the house. We also baked and decorated tons of cookies. She was so cute to watch putting on sprinkles and the colored sugar.

Carys also enjoyed her second Christmas and her second birthday. Both of those events deserve their own post with photos. So...please keep reading.

I'M TWO - my birthday in review

My Puppy Pinata

My Puppy Cake

My Puppy Shirt

Carys' 2nd birthday party was as fun to plan as her first. We had a puppy theme because our little princes LOVES, LOVES, LOVES dogs. We had puppy invitations to get people ready for the puppy themed party. Tim and I made the puppy pinata...only because two other people...you know who you are...said it was easy. It really was easy and was so fun. Tim and I also made the cake. Some food items for the party were hot dogs, corn dogs, hush puppies and puppy chow. Carys received lots of puppy related items as gifts, books, craft items, kitchen items, homemade blanket, and a jeep. She also received things for her baby dolls, which she also LOVES, LOVES, LOVES.

Our Christmas in Review

We had a wonderful Christmas this year!! Carys' big gift was her kitchen. She has always loved to play with her cousin's kitchen and most recently her friend Taylor's. We had her kitchen set up and ready to play Christmas morning. Carys came out and noticed the presents under the tree. She picked up a few and moved them out in the middle of the floor...then it happened...she noticed her kitchen. At that point any hope of opening gifts was over. She played with her kitchen until we had to leave for Grandpa and Grandma Davis'. She opened more gifts there and then we were off to Grandma Barb's and Grandpa Greg's for more gifts. Later in the afternoon, after her nap, she finally opened a few gifts here at home. It wasn't until the day after Christmas that she opened the remainder of her gifts and her stocking from Santa.