Two kids and one dog later...it has been 4 years!

It has been 4 wonderful years!
2004 - The Crescent&St.Lucia,
2005- Private Cabin in Gatlingburg,
2006-Steak dinner at home with 4 month old Sweet Pea,
2007-A night out on the town
2008-Ritz-Carlton and Nick and Sam's. This year I was surprised by "L" with a luxurious stay at the Ritz-Carlton where we enjoyed a desert tray of chocolate covered strawberry's, two bottles of Champagne (no we did not drink both...one was a souvenir!), another large bowl of strawberry's with whipped cream, elegant in room breakfast and several gifts from the hotel. The Ritz Dallas was just ranked the number one hotel in the U.S!Because a few things happened that were not up to their high standards our one night stay at the Ritz was complimentary! Wow, we really did feel like royalty at the end of our stay. Nick and Sam's was nothing less than the best. We enjoyed our four course meal over several hours. The next week on our actual anniversary I was surprised when "L" took the entire day off! I had Bible study at church that day and the kids had school, so he spent a few hours at home doing laundry! I was then surprised by a beautiful bouquet of flowers. Later that night we took the kids to Memaw's and enjoyed a quiet meal at a local little Jazz bistro. This year felt like an aniversary extravaganza!

My wobbly steps

For the past week I have been taking lots of solo wobbly steps. Tonight I decided to walk across the play room! That was 15 steps in a row before falling. I am still just under 9 months...early walker like my big brother! My teachers were very sad today...because I showed them how well I was taking my steps. In just a few weeks I'll have to graduate to the walker room. They decided they would let me get a little better as I will be the youngest/smallest walker in my new room.

Big smile for the camera! This is how happy I am to finally walk!

Quick mom get the camera! See me walk!Now I just want the camera!

Oh No! Reveille needs a diaper!

Early one morning Sweet Pea thought Reveille was missing something, after all he had a shirt on...but no diaper. So Sweet Pea ran to his room and attempted to put a diaper on Reveille. Oh No! Before he can finish Reveille has a dirty diaper and now Sweet Pea needs a wipe. So its back to his room for a wipe.

Sweet Pea gets Reveille all cleaned up. When were done, what do we do with it? We roll them up and take it to the trash............

Not if your Sweet Pea! He chunked the fake "yucky" diaper into Cupcakes room! And then he shut the door! Not sure if he was making a statement...but that is not what we do with our diapers! It was pretty funny that is what he did with his first pretend dirty diaper. I guess we know what were in for!

I want to be just like you...

During lunch time today we sat upstairs for a movie. Little Cupcake watched as Sweet Pea sat at his table enjoying lunch while she had her bottle. I guess that was really boring because she quickly gave up her bottle and tried to take his food. Sweet Pea became frustrated trying to defend his food. So I made Cupcake her own bowl of cereal and sat her at the table with Sweet Pea. Then she realized he had a cup and she only had a bottle. So it was back down stairs to make Cupcake her own cup. She had a blast pretending to eat her cereal and drink out of a cup.

What Sweet Pea is doing:

His new favorite word is not "No" but "No way"

He is talking in a lot of sentences ex: "Sherman he eat it" "Washer the car" "Here it goes dump" (playing with his dump truck)

He is trying to negotiate with us: "How about a cookie" or "How about a cracker" or "How about juice"

He tells Sherman: "No running!"

New verse : I will put on Gods armour to stand against the enemy - this one is harder. It comes out I will Gods armour against enemy

What Cupcake is doing:

Preparing to walk. She lets go of everything and stands on her own, but has not attempted to add the walking part.

She is a climber in a mater of seconds she can scale the pick nick table, slide or just about anything else she sets her eyes on.

She Babels: "Da Da" "De De""La la" and more but not "ma ma"

She waves: although never when we want her to and really she only waves to Sweet Pea

At Church Cupcake is learning how to praise and worship. Her teacher said she is often the example on how to praise. She also gets saran aided with " Jesus loves me" prayed over is learning about the Bible and learning developmentally things like her reflection. What fun she is having.