Lovin' Life: April 2010

I love being a mom to three awesome kids. Every day I get plastered with slobbery kisses and big squeezes. My favorite things in the world! They also are very excited about warm fuzzies and filling up everyone's bucket. At the beginning of the year we started putting all the warm fuzzies we did in a jar, when the jar gets full we get to do an activity that the kids all agree on. Tennessee and Addie have been pretty creative at what they can do for each other and us. Today they unmade our bed. Tennessee proudly announced that he "got our bed ready for sleep". Addie clarified, "that means we messed it up"! The other day as I was taking the kids to tumbling I spied this message on the side of our car.

I love it. Tennessee loves writing us all love notes and taping them to the walls or in this case writing it on our car. He is such a sweetie. Addie has copied this and we have cute notes from her too. I'm not exactly sure what they say but we feel the love :) I think we all enjoy doing something nice for each other secretly and the good feeling we get inside. It's made our home happier and each of us more thoughtful towards one another.

The day has finally come, Addie's Birthday!! She has been talking and planning it for weeks. She wanted everything that she saw in the store ad's and she had a list of everything she needed for the party! At the top of the list was a bike. She has been wanting one since Christmas eve when she asked Santa for one at the mall. (That was the first we'd heard of her list to Santa: Bike, Lego's and a box of nails. Sadly she didn't get any of that for Christmas.) We were in Idaho for grandpa's funeral and stayed through Sunday which was her Birthday! We were staying at Cody and Geri's and Addie woke up at 4:30 Sunday morning talking. We always have a cousin sleep-over when we stay over there so Scott and I were downstairs completely oblivious to Geri & Cody's wake up call. Geri walked in the door and Addie immediately announced "today is my birthday"! She was too excited to sleep :) Geri finally convinced her that she needed to go back to sleep so she wouldn't be tired for her first day of being four.

In Idaho we celebrated with family, a Butterfly cake (which she really wanted a pink dinosaur, another thing we found out after the pan was bought) and ice cream. She decided the butterfly was okay but cupcakes had to be at the party with her friends. We also had an Easter egg hunt with cousins. It was a great day and not too windy.

Wednesday we celebrated with friends. Addie woke up to balloons, birthday banner and streamers all over the kitchen. The best thing was a pink shiny bike hidden inside a play tent! She was so giddy and couldn't wait to take it for a spin. She told us she really wanted a princess bike like Savannah but the pink one with butterflies and flowers would be okay. She definitely knows what she wants.

That morning Addie had dance and then it was party time! When she got back home the cupcakes were done and all the finishing touches were in place. She was ready for the friends to come and the fun to start. It was a little tricky planning her party. She only wanted to play, no games. We did make a princess craft out of a wooden spoon and played some silly games with the kids.

She refused to play the games so she sat on my lap while I played duck, duck goose and chased kids around holding her pretending to be a monster. She laughed and begged for more, but didn't want to be put down :) When Addie got hungry (which if you know her happens every few minutes) we fed the kids strawberries and grapes and then it was time for presents, CUPCAKES, and ice cream cones. The kids were all soo great and it was a wonderful party. I also had some mom's help and they were amazing!Addie wanted it to be her birthday everyday!

We also had fun celebrating together. We had an afternoon of playing and of course eating cupcakes. Tennessee and Parker were also excited to give Addie their present that Tennessee had wrapped all by himself. They were even more excited to help her unwrap it!