Fiona's Big Day!

Happy Birthday sweet Fiona!!!

This is one amazing little girl with a personality that is starting to explode!  Here are a few things I'd like to share about Fi, she...

loves to mimic faces, laughs, sounds and gestures

loves veggies and fruit, even broccoli!

is terrified of animals, so sad

crawls fast

is not too interested in learning to walk

finally sleeps through the night

loves everything about Ruby

will follow Ruby anywhere

has one tooth

says "Hi!" and tries to say "Ta-da"

waves hello and blows beautiful kisses!

 

Family Day

We had an awesome day today with some of Kevin's family!  They came down from Wisconsin to spend some time in Chicago and we were lucky enough to spend a day with them!  We spent some time strolling through Brookfield Zoo then had some pizza at Giordanno's.

 Cousins!  Kaity, Amber, Ciera, Ruby and Fiona...

 Awesome picture of Kaity!

 On to Giordanno's.  Mmmmm, Giordanno's...

Stacy and Kevin...  Ruby kept asking me, "why are there two Stacy's?" Too cute!

 I predict that Ruby won't stop talking about Ciera for weeks!  They had a great time playing together!

 There are not too many pics of Fi and I together!

 Jake and Kaity...

Today is the day Fiona fell in love with goldfish crackers...  She would have eaten them by the handful if I would have let her!

 Introducing Walrus Bill...  and Walrus Ruby...

 My girls!

 The gang...

Recent Portraits

This portrait session was for Ruby's three year and Fiona's 9 month photos.  We were trying to make it look like Ruby was floating away with the balloons but the best we could do was have her jumping at them!  Fiona in the bath tub...  crazy cute!

Party Time!

Ruby's 3rd birthday party was a blast!  She had fun decorating (or playing with the balloons) with me.  I had fun decorating the windows with crepe paper, an idea I stole from my friend Lisa!  Thanks Lisa and Melanie!  (By the way... I've seen your Dinosaur Train birthday decor on Pinterest!  Nice!) 
 

When Uncle Tommy and Auntie Arwen pulled into the drive way Ruby started jumping and saying, "My cousins are here!  My cousins are here!"  Then all the other guests arrived and we had tons of fun.  Dinner, pinata, presents, birthday video, cake... and a lot of playing inbetween!

This was our first pinata, and I loved it!  Pull a string, no bats - swinging - head wounds...  Easy!  Ha!  When you pull the right string the bottom comes off and the treats pour out!  Ruby's bigger cousins did an awesome job of letting the little ones find treats and toys first!  Tommy was so cute too...  He found a hot wheels fire truck and was happy with just that one toy, he didn't need any more! 

Presents!  Ruby received some really cool things!  Hamper with a ton of dress up items, including this fancy crown, butterfly wings, and the crocodile hat!  (just to name a few)  She received Dora bed sheets, Dora microphone, bathrobe, a sing and read Leap Frog Karaoke game, jewelry box, Jake and the Neverland Pirates sword and spyglass, new special charm bracelet charm, matching game, special occasion Ruby plate, Mickey Mouse fish (pictures to come later!), Wonderwoman invisible plane and little people Wonderwoman figure...  I'm sure I'm forgetting a few!  Prior to today she had received some other gifts, including a fish tank from Mommy and Daddy! 

Then came the cake!  Happy Birthday lovely girl!  I went with a fish themed cupcake cake, although the pictures I ordered from looked a little more like Nemo that this one did... but that's ok!  The kids loved it!  Ruby and Tommy had crazy fun smearing bits of icing on each other!  These two cousins are buddies!

And at the end of the day, Ruby's sugar high carried her for quite a while.  Somehow I got her to pose for a few more cute pictures...

Ruby's list of favorites - for today!

Number - 3
Gift - Dora sheets (although she said cake first - but technically that wasn't a gift! Ha!)
Birthday party event - cake, pinata and dancing
Song - Rocketship Run and Moon, Moon, Moon; both by Laurie Berkner
Color - pink
Food - peanut butter and jelly
Drink - chocolate milk
Book - One Love (Fiona's new valentines book) based off of Bob Marley's song
Superhero - Wonderwoman