Zoe's Birthday

Zoe had her 2nd birthday in May. My baby is getting so grown up and so big.

Here are me and my mom decorating her Birthday cake.

It was a cow. I don't have any pictures of her blowing out the birthday candles because we didn't have candles. Silly me.

Zoe got a tricycle from Mommy and Daddy. We actually returned this one because she kept falling over and hitting her head. We got one of those big wheel type ones that is lower to the ground. Much safer.

Other things she got for her birthday was:

A lovely hat

coloring books

regular books

sidewalk chalk

big crazy sunglasses

and a table and chair set

Here's Arleigh wondering what is going on.

Papa and Aunt Laura at her birthday party.

Nana

Zoe looooves Uncle Josh and Aunt Laura.

It's so nice and extremely fun when everyone comes to our house. And luckily we have a big enough house for everyone to come to!

Thanks Everyone for Zoe's presents and Birthday Wishes!

Fun Stuff

I wanted to update our blog but we haven't down loaded any new pictures yet and so I will just make my top 10 list of things that have been happening lately.

1. Zoe is a little chatter box. She is such a good talker now. I can pretty much understand every thing she says. My favorite thing she says right now is "Pan-Pan". Yes, that is Zoe for Pancakes.

2. We have a fish tank, in the fish tank I have a crab. Last week my crab shed it's skin and now is twice as big as when we bought it. I didn't know crabs shed there skins. Pretty cool.

3. We have tulips everywhere. And as silly as this sounds, I did not realize that there were so many color of tulips. I thought they only came in red!

4. Three nights in a row Arleigh slept for seven hours. She slept till 6 am!!!!!!!!! (The down side--she only slept till 4:30 last night)

5. Zoe is my big helper. She always has to help do dishes. Well, she likes to play in the water while I do the dishes. But she thinks she's helping.

6. Arleigh is also a chatterbox. She coes and gurgles like there's no tomorrow.

7. We got a free exercise bike off of craigslist. Oh I love craigslist.

8. Speaking of Craigslist--we got an incredibly lovey, friendly kitty for Zoe off of craigslist. His name is Tigger and he must think he's a dog because he follows us around like a puppy when we are outside.

9. My roses aren't dead.

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10. We have a big enough house that all my family likes to come and hang out here. Yay!!

April

In April Ben's parents and little brother visited us for a week.

Here is Grandma holding Arleigh. It was so nice to have some extra help with the two kids. And I think the grandparents enjoyed themselves.

It snowed one of the days they were here, so Grandma and Zoe and Uncle Justin made a snowman.

Uncle Justin played the Wii most of the time he was here. Zoe helped him.

Ok, I really don't know how much help she really was. But she sure liked having him here.

We went to Craters of the Moon and had a picnic. Ya it was a little cold, but a lot of fun, especially when Arleigh shot poo at Ben from 2 feet away. Ah...good times.

Justin was very helpful with Arleigh when she would stay up till Midnight and wanted to be held. Thanks Justin!!

As I was looking at pictures I was surprised that we don't have any of Grandpa with his grandkids. Sorry Grandpa!

It was fun to have them here and we look forward to seeing them in July again.