Happy Birthday!

Do you know the best part about having a birthday on Sunday? You get to celebrate ALL weekend long! Jena and I celebrated our birthday in June. We started off the weekend with a friend party on Friday. This was the first friend party for Jena and she was so excited she could hardly wait. She actually counted down the minutes until her friends would get there.

We played "Pin the hair on Rapunzel"

We played this "Pop the Balloon" game (We actually call it "monster mash" at Halloween time, but I thought it would be fun to do at a birthday party) We made bracelets, but I didn't get a picture of that.

We opened presents and took a group picture.

Then had ice cream sandwichesSince Jena's birthday was on a Sunday, we let her have her big present, a new bike, a day early so she would actually get to ride it. Of course, she loved it! She was even more thrilled that she had just learned how to ride a 2 wheeler just a few weeks earlier and now she had a fun, new bike to show off her new skill.

We took Jena to dinner that night for her birthday since we wouldn't go on Sunday. She, of course, chose IHOP. My kids love that place.

Here she is opening the rest of her presents on her actual birthday.

Remember that part on Despicable Me where the little girl squeezes the unicorn and yells, "He's so fluffy!!!" That's exactly what she was doing here. She has wanted a pillow pet forever and I just couldn't disappoint her.All the birthday presents. She spent almost an hour setting all her presents up like this so I could take her picture. She wanted to make sure everything was seen...even down her her markers and stickers.We spent our actual birthday going to church and then we had dinner at my in-laws house. We go over there once a month for family dinner and it just happened to fall on our birthday this month. It was great because we got to pick what we wanted for dinner and then we brought cake and ice cream for dessert.

Singing Happy Birthday

Our annual birthday picture

There she goes!

Jena learned how to ride a 2 wheel bike in May. I was surprised at how quickly she caught on. She had been asking me for a while to teach her, and every time we took off the training wheels, I would get too frustrated and just put them back on after only a few tries. One Saturday afternoon, we started practicing again and she picked it up so fast. Our new favorite thing to do together is go for a bike ride. She is so proud of herself. She lets everybody know that she can ride a 2 wheeler!

(These pictures were actually taken a while after she learned.....after she got her new bike for her birthday.)

All Boy

Dreyson is ALL BOY! He is a very busy little guy who always has to be doing something. I often get comments on how busy he is. Here is proof that Dreyson always keeps us on our toes....

We have made 2 trips to the ER with Drey in the last month!

The first one happened when he jumped off my bed on the day of Jena's preschool graduation. Jena and Drey were practicing flying (they are absolutely convinced that if they just practice enough, one day they will take off) It is not uncommon for them to do this and I really didn't think much of it. I have tried to gently break it to them that no matter how hard they try, they won't fly, but they don't believe me. So, when both kids showed up wearing a pair of Jena's dress up fairy wings, I didn't even blink an eye. Little did I know that they were planning their flying lessons in my room. Off MY bed. My bed is pretty high. Drey still has a hard time climbing up on it. I was in the other room and when I heard the scream, I KNEW something was wrong. So I ran in there to see them both lying on the floor. Apparently they jumped together, arm in arm. Drey could not walk on his leg. He would just collapse. So, being the awesome mother that I am, I told him to go lay down and then we would see how he felt when he woke up. Classic mother response right. "Take a nap. You'll feel better when you wake up." Ha! Except he did not feel better. I finally decided that I had better take him to get checked the next day when he still would not walk on his leg.

He had a suspected fracture (they couldn't actually find one, but due to the fact that he would not walk on his leg for almost a week, they suspected a toddlers fracture) in his leg and got to wear a splint for 2 weeks. The longest 2 weeks ever!

This one happened during a pillow fight with a cousin. Pillow fight. Sounds harmless, right? Dreyson fell and hit his head on the end table at my parents house. I was actually already at our pediatricians office with Jena for her 5 year old well check. I got a phone call from my niece who was at my parents saying that Drey had hit his head and was bleeding really bad and I needed to come back right now. I got to my parents, saw his head, and turned around and headed right back to the doctor for stitches.

Oh Dreyson, we love you! Please no more ER visits for a while.

Preschool Graduation

Jena graduated from preschool in May. I can't believe Jena will go to Kindergarten in the fall. It just doesn't seem like she should be that old yet. She loved preschool SO much and looked forward to going everyday. She especially loved her teacher, Miss Marci.