My 3 year old

Harper and I snuggled on the couch watching Robots (the only movie that we are capable of watching currently).  I said "What would I do without you?"  


"Play by yourself."


I love my 3 year old.

So, her birthday flew by.  We didn't do anything spectacular, she got to take some princess cupcakes to daycare to share on the day and I made her a 3 shirt.  Notice the amazing colors?  Guess who picked out the materials?  It includes neon yellow glow in the dark paint as well.  













Then we had a gathering at Grandma and Grandpa's pond so she got a big cake and some presents there.  I had been planning in my head to have an actual party for her with her friends, but those plans kind of fell apart.  She still had fun and she's doesn't know that we could do something way more awesome than a party at Grandma and Grandpa's (which is kind of awesome, just no friends).

Jana caught a 17" bass with Harper's Barbie fishing
pole.  It pretty much set the standard for all fish
you were supposed to be catching for her.

We didn't get to do it all

We had a fun morning at the public library's kickoff to summer.  They had all sorts of fun games, crafts and food to start the summer reading program.  Harper, as usual, was slow to warm up.  A little bit of pie though and she got more adventurous.

She did some salad spinner art, got a library tattoo and even stood at the mermaid to let me take her picture.  We did the cupcake walk twice and the second time she won a cupcake!

We stood in line forever to get her face painted because she wanted to and it was SO close to her turn she chickened out and didn't want to do it anymore.  She had decided she wanted popcorn (more food of course), but the event was over and there was no more popcorn.  I had to take a sad little girl home.  As I went through ALL the things she had done, she pouted that she didn't get to do anything else.

Oh, yeah, Ryden was there too.  He got pie and fistfull of frosting and squirmed and wiggled and tried to escape.  Towards the end he almost fell asleep but no such luck.

Ryden's week

I discovered three new teeth in Ryden's mouth that weren't there a week ago.  With the one that came in last Friday, that makes four teeth in a week.  Plus getting over hand, foot and mouth, this was a very grumpy week for the kid.

He also started trying to take steps this week so hopefully he will be walking soon!  At some point I realized that he is now 13 months old and should be walking soon.  The last month went so fast.

Hand, foot, mouth

UGH!  Ryden has hand, foot and mouth, yuck!  Harper had it this fall and now Ryden has it.  Supposedly it's going around, I took him to the doctor this afternoon to confirm my diagnosis and he was the third baby with it she had seen today.  It could be worse, but I feel bad, I know that it probably hurts but there's not a lot to do about it.


On a brighter note, he cut another tooth.  That makes 5, it wasn't the one I thought was going to come through next though so hopefully another one will pop through shortly.

A teamh

I'm so lucky that Harper and Ryden get along so well.  There are, of course, times when she gets mad at him or vice versa, but for the most part they get along.  They are becoming friends now, yesterday Harper snuck up on the counter to get some cereal with Ryden in tow.  He just wants to be where she is.  She got her cereal and the first thing she did was give him a piece, like they were a team.

Tough choices

Nate has been gone for a week now.  Ryden doesn't know the difference, but Harper does.  Most of the time she isn't worried about it.  There are times when she asks about him or just mentions him while she's talking.  I'm just not sure how to deal with it.  How do I explain to her that Daddy needs to get help and I can't be responsible for him anymore?  Hopefully someday they will both understand that this decision is what is best for all of us.

Big kids

Last week, Ryden officially started standing on his own.  Every day since then he has gotten better and better.  It is only a matter of time until he starts taking steps from that position.  

My other child, you know Harper, has apparently learned to use the mouse.  We have been trying to get her to figure it out because she likes to play games on the computer, but it was not going well.  Tonight, we were watching Pixar shorts on YouTube and she was running the mouse to pick new videos.  Amazing.

They are both growing up so fast.  I'm so lucky to have such amazing kids.