Sophie's 2nd Birthday!!!

We celebrated Sophie's second birthday by having a party at our house. We got a bouncy house and she had a blast! It was really hot outside but she could have cared less...she just wanted to play outside and bounce, bounce, bounce!!! It was so much fun watching her play with her little friends! She is such a sweet little girl and in our opinion is ridiculously smart. She has really developed her own little personality in the past year. She is very opinionated about most things and luckily (I guess) is able to speak well enough to make herself clear about what she wants (or doesn't want). She loves to lay in her bed before taking a nap and "read" her books (she has many memorized). She also really loves to watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Superwhy, Seasame Street, Clifford the Big Red Dog and Curious George. We definitely try to limit her t.v. watching time which usually isn't too difficult since she loves reading books and playing with her toys. She also started going to My Gym classes in September and absolutely LOVES it. She gets to play and sing songs with other little children her age. She asks all of the time if we can go to "Mommy's gym" or "your gym" when talking to me...I guess when I refer to it as My Gym she gets confused...I really can't believe that my baby is 2 years old...can't wait to see what this next year will bring!!!





Her cake was really cute. A nurse who works with me made it and did a wonderful job!!!

Giving Sam a hug...

Checking out her new backpack that Aunt Heather gave her...too cute!

Her new Pinkalicious motorized car...

Sam and Landon playing ball

Cake and ice cream, doesn't get any better...

Opening more presents

Next morning on her car, she loves this thing and Sam really likes it too (the Pinkalicious theme doesn't bother him near as much as Daddy)

Edisto Vacation-August 2010

We went on vacation the 3rd week in August to Edisto! We went with the Mathis family, Mimi and Big Daddy and YiaYie and Dave. We had a great house right on the beach with a pool! It was perfect for the kids! We had lots of fun all week and Sophie and Lawson played all day everyday! We went crabbing one day too which was lots of fun! Looking forward to many more family vacations with the same crowd in the years to come!!!

Landon, happy as can be!

Sophie enjoying a bag of goldfish while crabbing

Dave with all of the crabs we caught, yummy!

Daddy and YiaYie walking (swinging) Sophie back to the car.

Fun in the pool!

Sophie and Lawson

Sam and Mimi

The view from out deck outside the house

What an amazing tree!

Happy baby on the beach

Lori and Kade visited us for a day!

Building sandcastles

Dave and Jon cracking all of the crabs. Out of all of those crabs we got about 2oz of meat. If you ask me it is definitely worth buying crabmeat at the store but I guess it was all about the experience?!?!?!

Heather and I making cookies!

Mimi reading a story to Sophie and Lawson

"Surfing"

Mommy and Sam enjoying the pool!

Lori and Kade

Hanging out with Big Daddy on the beach!

Lawson, Sophie, Landon and Sam all trying to play with the same toy

Playing with Big Daddy in the "tent" that they made in the living room!

Sophie, Sam and I took a day trip with some friends (Amy and Marianne) down to meet Lori and Kade for lunch and some beach time at Sullivan's in early August. It was definitely a memorable trip!!! Amy and I braved having 3 kids under the age of 2 in my car on the trip down. We made all in one piece and met Lori and Kade for lunch. We had a good lunch then headed to the beach with 4 kids and a TON of stuff. We noticed that there was a dark cloud overhead but thought we had some time to play on the beach...we were wrong. By the time we got to the beach and got settled we played for about 20 minutes and then a monsoon came. Looking back, it is something that Lori, Amy and I will laugh about for years to come but at the time it was NOT funny. Luckily there were nice people on the beach that felt sorry for us and helped us get some of our stuff back to the car and all of the kids. We went straight back to Lori's house and put all of the kids in the bathtub. Needless to say, we had 4 tired babies (and mommies) after all of that. We still had fun spending time with friends!!!

Attempting to get a picture of all 4 of them was impossible and, as you can see, Marianne and Sam were more interested in trying to eat sand.

Look at their mouths...yuck! (Notice the black cloud in the background?)

Wonder what this sunscreen tastes like?