MY BABY IS 1!!!

My sweet son Troy-I love you more than words can express. I am honored to be your mother and love every moment I spend with you. HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!! I can't believe my baby is 1. A year has really gone by?? Here is Troy doing what he does best-finding food! He loves to eat and I caught him under the chair the other day nibbling on Cheerios. He drops food from his tray just so he can have a snack when he gets down from his highchair. Good thinking, my boy. He is a very smart, handsome little guy who always has a smile on his face. He walks around laughing just to laugh. He is a joy to have and I just absolutely LOVE him!!

So I am wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving and wishing my son, Troy, a wonderful Happy Birthday. Thanks for being just perfect.

Peacocks and Breakdancers

Hmm..ok well I am not good at posting pics in the order I have in mind. Oh well. There are tons of pics on this post. ...yes these are Halloween cookies. Surprisingly enough I do know how to bake. Grandma sent Melia some wicked awesome sprinkles so what did we do with them..we sprinkled..

Melia and I had tons of fun making cookies. This girl doesn't really like sweets but man she loved these sprinkled cookies. Ok seriously-I want her hair.

Don't you love when they are just that tired..

Random order...Nana enjoying Troy. Nana came a few weeks ago for a week. She had a blast with the kiddos. I love Troy's face in this one.

Troy warmed right up to Granddad. I can't believe Troy is a year old in a few weeks..Thanksgiving Day actually.

A peacock is on here why? Well this will start you off on the zoo pics...these are running around everywhere at the zoo..they can be mean, too. You have been warned..

Melia obviously thought it would be more fun to be in with the animals..

Why would she not push her own stroller? It is like the dogs you see walking themselves...leash in mouth...love this girl./

Work that sass!!

So sweet..

Getting annoyed are we?

Kisses!

She is definitely the funny little girl. She loves to make us laugh and she is quite good at being the little comedian. Karyn, remember when Grandma would call me a comedian? I thought it was some kind of monster and i would just nod and smile but really I was terrified. Sweet imagination! Wonder why I didnt just ask what it meant..

Love those pouty lips!

First thing she has anyone do...read books to her. Loves her books. After i read her 4 or 5 books for her nap or bedtime she re reads them to herself. She has such a good memory that she really can read them back. I listen to her on the monitor. Oh so real quick funny story..we were at the park yesterday and this quite plump little boy, Hayden was there. We have met him before. He tells me he is 3 and his dad is 5. Of course. Well this boy really is plump..like wow dude you could play NFL! So anyway he starts what I think having a seizure on the ground..oh what? You are breakdancing? Of course. So we all look on and that beautiful sight. Then Melia is climbing on something and he tells her "Don't do that! Stop! You are going to hurt your weiner!!" He tells her this a few times..I tell him"Oh sweetie she doesn't have a weiner. Melia is a girl." He thinks about this and says Oh well does he have a weiner? (pointing to Troy) I tell him yes. Hayden then grabs himself and says "I have a weiner. it's right here. It is my pee pee." Hmm..thanks Hayden and I don't think we should be having this conversation anymore. ha ha Anyway..kids are hilarious.

Progress

Umm...ok so I have been taking a sculpting class? As some of you may know I want to try out a figure competition. I am aiming for one this spring so we'll see what happens. I have a trainer named Erik who is now my main man. I love him. :) So I really didn't feel like putting these pics up but just in case I get horribly out of shape someday my kids can look back and say Wow Mom...why don't you look like that anymore? And that will motivate me to get in touch with Erik again!

Anyway...it is a lot of fun doing this kind of training and I am going this Friday to check out a competition to see what they are all about.

Pardon the goofy smiles...I HATE getting my picture taken but Erik wanted to see some pics as he hadn't seen me since we started about 5 months ago.

Halloween

Halloween was a blast! The kids had so much fun. Nana and Granddad were in town so that was, of course, so good to have them here for the fun evening. Melia was so gracious and at the first few houses was putting candy into the candy bowl of the person handing out the candy. So sweet but when she did get it...bring on the candy! Oh pics are out of order and there are a lot but enjoy!

Happy with her candy! Time to put into piles which she had fun doing. She is all about sorting and color coordinating..

Mommy and her monkey. I must say Troy did awesome. He just took it all in

We met up with Melia's little friend Madyson. They did some trick or treating together but Melia seemed annoyed b/c Madyson was afraid of all the scary decorations.

Troy warmed right up to Granddad.

Setting off on our trick or treating adventure..

Umm..come on I am waiting..

Casting a spell...

Treat

Nana sent some costumes for the kids and they are so cute. We dressed them up last weekend to see how they would look. Beauty.

I think it is safe to say Troy looks absolutely adorable. He didn't mind it at all. He crawled around as if he wasn't even wearing a monkey suit. Who can honestly say they could do the same?

Melia is all set for Halloween. Every morning she tells me "It's almost Halloween, Mommy!" Our neighborhood goes all out and everyone already has their decorations up. I am talking lights and pumpkins and inflatable things. It's awesome.

I am tired but wanted to get these up before Monday starts. Hope everyone had a good weekend. We did. :)

Obsessed

Yes I am obsessed with these 2 little ones. I just cannot get enough of them. These 2 pics of Troy are actually a month or so old. But just love them so had to get them up. I just wanted to report that my little man is walking now! 10.5 mos and he finally let go of the table and went for it. I can't believe it. Time sure has flown by b/c he will be a year so soon.

Patiently waiting (yet looking quite annoyed) for his food.

Melia came up to me the other day and handed me my phone and said "Call Daddy ok?" I told her that Daddy was at school so I couldn't. She told me again the same. I just took my phone and said I would later. I guess while I had been putting Troy down for a nap Dan called and Melia answered it and he told her to have me call him. Guess I should listen a little better!

I have some preview pics of the kiddos in their Halloween costumes that I will post later today.

Square Pants

I had to write this one down. Melia and I were in the store a few weeks ago and she saw a SpnogeBob cake. She really wanted it. I told her she could have one if she threw her binky away. She still only uses it at night so not a biggie but I thought I would try it. Well when we got home she ran upstairs and got her binky and said "I throw my binky away Mommy." And throw it away she did! She was so proud of herself and we even went out to the trash and put it in the can. About 10 minutes later..."Where'd my binky go??" ha ha

I will just make the long story short. The babysitter ended up giving her a binky that day for her nap as Melia was so upset she didn't have it. So she didn't get the cake that day. The next day I told her she would have to throw another one away and sleep w/o her binky to have the cake. Well...

She obviously threw it away...again.

And Mommy is obviously a sucker b/c she is still sleeping with a binky.

My little painter

I took Melia to an art class a few weeks ago and she loved it. So I bought some finger paints for her and finally got around to letting her go at it.

I love the tongue. Why do kids (and adults) stick out the tongue when concentrating? Must help.

My beautiful little girl.

So serious...

Dancing Queen

These are the last pics I am posting from Grandma's trip. My recent pics are now piling up and I need to get those up but I am too lazy to upload them right now. I just wanted to write down a funny story about Melia before I go too long and I forget to. By the way Melia loves to dance and this is her twirling around. Obviously she got dizzy-see below. So Melia loves to "call" people on my phone. She pretends to call quite a few people and they always talk back b/c I hear her say"oh yeah, ok. Oh? yeah ok." So the other afternoon I leave Melia watching Dora and go upstairs to get Troy from his nap. I come back down to find Melia moving a stool over to the backdoor which is locked and she can't reach the top lock. She is on my phone saying"yeah, ok. ok. yeah." I just laugh and wonder who she is "talking" to. I then hear the lock click and she is out the door still on my phone. I am changing Troy in the study. I then walk out and see the garage door opening. I know Dan doesn't have an opener so I am like What is going on?? I walk outside and I hear "I got it Daddy!!" Melia was on a chair in the garage underneath the garage opener. To sum it up...Dan had called me and Melia picked up the phone. Dan asked her to get me so I can open the garage door. Why would a 2.5 year old need help?? So she did it herself. I thought that was very cool she found a way to do it but then thought..Nice, now my 2 year old can get out of the house and backyard.

So this week has been a good one so far. I have some newer pics of the kids and another good story from Melia. Oh the other day at the gym well..the gym I go to is nothing but huge and I mean HUGE Hawaiian or Samoan guys. They are huge. Covered in ink. My kinda guys. So anyway they are not just tough looking they really are tough men. So I was doing squats and right next to me is this huge dude and his friends. That Kelly Clarkson song "Since you've been gone" was on. All of a sudden I hear super loud from this huge man Since you've been gone..I can breath for the first time! I'm so moving on yeah yeah!" So he actually got those high notes and I just started laughing. I couldn't help it. It was awesome. I looked over at him and he just gave me the "Yeah that's right" nod. Beauty.