~These are the Days~

Well our summer days have been so much fun I thought I would do a blog all about our fun adventures... from water parks, the zoo, birthday parties, swim clubs, ice cream cones and fairy gardens... Enjoy the photos!

Henry Has learned to giggle, laugh, grab toys, roll over and scoot. He enjoys sleeping in bed with his sister and really loves when she laughs at him. They truly are best friends!

Isabella has celebrated at many fun parties this summer, she went to Chuck E Cheese for the 1st time ever when celebrating her cousin Ricky's birthday, then went the next weekend to Nate,Zach and Andrews party at Chuck E Cheese too. She went to the Tutor time family picnic at a big park, went to Zoey's 4th Birthday and they had real horses with pink hair and purple hoofs (to match the my little pony theme), and most of all celebrated her own star spangled 4th birthday party in style.



We have gone to the Toledo Zoo as a family and Fisher Price had a toy demo station set up for the kids to try out new toys....

One day we also went to a local fish farm and had a nice lazy Sunday afternoon family day!

We spent a nice family fun Sunday at the Huron Valley Swim club and stopped over at a friends to see the new pet baby llama.

One special Sunday was spent making a fairy garden outside for Isabella's fairies to dance play and sleep over in any time of day or night...

So here ends our story of the summer of 2008, we are gearing up for a fun and busy fall with travels to PA, Reptile land, the zoo and the start of the twirlettes for Bella and Pre-K in September. Dad will travel to Grand Traverse Bay for work/golf.

Henry's 1st Halloween this October and his 6 month check up in September and maybe a tooth or two... so stayed tune for updates and fun photos~these are the days will remember~ All our love The Stro 4.

Bloobie & Henry

Here is Henry at the Birthday party for His cousin Ricky on Sunday. He is teething so we got him a blue teether that well is shapped like a boob. So we named him bloobie!

Henry and Isabella had a great time at the party.

Earlier in the day we went to visit llama's at a friends house and went to the Huron Valley Swim Club. What a nice weekend we had :)

My oh My have we grown...

Some days it is hard to remember he was so small, so i have to get out there photos the few there are of the "tiny days" and think wow how we have grown. At 4 months he weighed in at 23.5 pounds and is 27.5 inches tall.

I must admit it is hard to hold him some days and other days I find myself looking at other people's babies and wondering how fun it must be to still dress them in baby clothes (did I mention he wears 3t shirts!), or still use a baby car seat (he is now in his big boy Britax Marathon), or maybe be able to carry him with one arm (and not rip it out of the socket).

Then I think wow am I just the luckiest mom to have 2 perfectly wonderful kids and we love them just the way they are!

KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!

HaPPy 4th Birthday ISaBelLA...And Many MoRe!

Oh the places we did go,
So we went to the great Wolf Lodge and celebrated in style the biggest, best, bestest Birthday Bash for our Big Girl Isabella.

She had so much fun playing and splish splashing in the great water parks, she also loves
the game room where she would win tickets to exchange for a prize.

Isabella and daddy spent many hours playing Magiquest an interactive adventure game with a wand and whimsical tasks that take you throughout the hotel and earning gold points and ruins so that you and your magic wand can take out a fire breathing dragon.

They also took some time out to have some father daughter tee time.

And with mommy we spent time in the Spa doing relaxing girl things..oh yeah and threw in a bit of shopping and ice cream too!

Knock Knock....

Who's there it's Willey Woof and a plate of warm cookies!

We came home after a long weekend of fun in the sun to prepare for the home style backyard birthday bash with our favorite friends and family.
What a great afternoon we had a pinata filled with candy, a Mickey mouse ice cream cake, goody bags filled with toys and candy, the bounce house and best of all the kids got to make your own ice cream sundae. lots of fun we had and Isabella was a star!

This last weekend we were supposed to go up north to a family reunion & a birthday party near east Lansing.....
we'll we had to cancel out and retreat. Henry poor man got a bad diaper rash that required a lot of love and no traveling. We have stumbled on to Penaten a German diaper creme (thanks to my sister) and switched to cloth diapers (bum genius & happy heinys).
They worked like magic, today i tried to put him in a conventional disposable and in hours his heiny was red as can be and irritated.

So we hung around the house and spent some much needed family time together and had a blast playing with the kids, we even took Isabella fishing in Dexter to the fish farm. What a fun time she had with daddy!

Next weekend we are hoping to get to the swim club and spend a nice day together as a family and maybe have a picnic.

I will post the photos soon!