Birthday #2

Next was Mommy's Birthday. It was on November 5th and she probably wouldn't want me to tell you how old she turned. I will give you a hint though... it starts with a 3 and ends in a 1. Me, Grayson and Mommy went to California to celebrate. Mommy and me went to Disneyland on her actual birthday. Grayson was too scared to come with us. Typical.

Birthday #1

We have had many birthdays in our family the past couple of months that have come and gone. Mine was first. I turned 5 on September 30th!

There are so many things I can do now that I am 5.

I can read about 10 books

I can cook chicken nuggets by myself

I write any word you tell me how to spell

I can dress myself and Grayson

I can shower myself

I can organize a day of events

I can put on a movie in the playroom

I love to follow directions and start art projects on my own

I can put on my own make-up just like Mommy

And much more...

To celebrate my birthday, I had a few friends over to watch the new Hannah Montana Movie and we had a Rock n Roll good time!

I got a lot of great things for my birthday including matching pj's for Sally and me, a desk and my very own I-pod (videos I made to come)!

Mommy also made me breakfast in bed. Big Pancakes, my favorite!

It was a school day on my birthday and Mommy went to school with me for the whole day. I told everybody that that was best part of the whole day!

And to end the day we went to dinner with Ellie and her mom. It was a great day!

A spooky Halloween!

I hope you had a spooky Halloween. We sure did. Here is a video of me trying to get the trick or treaters to our house.



Here are all the pictures of the Halloween fun we had...

We found...

a black widow spider in our house today! Mommy killed it and threw it out the window. We were so scared! After we inspected the whole house and sprayed our spider spray, we did some research. We read about the spider in Grayson's special spider book. I learned that black widows are all girls. But that made made me very curious. How do they have babies?

Me: "Mama, if black widows are all girls, who is their hun?"

Mom: "Black widows eat their husbands after they have their babies."

Well, that is pretty crazy.

Later today, Grayson and I were watching a show. Gray kept on asking Mom if he could get all the toys he saw a commercial for on tv. (We do that everyday). A Transformers commercial came on.

Gray: "Can I get that for my birthday Mom?"

Me: "Which one do you want Sweetie?"

Gray: "Optimus Prime"

Me: "Ok Sweetie, I'll get it for ya."

I always take care of my Grayson.

Grayson's quote of the day

Tonight Gray crawled on Daddy's lap and said:

"Afton is my girlfriend and Mommy is my girlfriend and Daddy... Daddy, you are my Uncle."

Back to School... and blogging!

It has been a very fun filled summer with oh so many activities and trips. I will fill you in on that later. First, I must tell you about my first day of school. Grayson and I are going to Newcastle pre-school this year. We go at the same time on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. My mom might like it even more than we do, but that is hard to imagine. Gray and I are in different classes but we get to go in together and leave together. It is sooo cool.

Grayson's teacher's name is Miss Charlotte. He is very good at saying her name. Grayson said the best thing he did there was make a monster out of play-doh. I laughed when I heard that one. I asked him how he made it and he told me "magic". Very impressive. When Mommy asked him how his day went, he said "it was great!" with the biggest smile on his face. He was also very excited to tell us his friend, Ben was in his class. That made me happy because I was excited to tell everyone that Sydney was in my class, she is Ben's sister. We love hanging out with them.

My teacher's name is Miss Kathy. She is so nice and fun. I really like her. I loved at the beginning of class when we got to "introduce" each other. I met this "cute little, little boy" and he was my friend for the day. I can't remember his name though, I will try better next time. I love school and am so excited that we are back!

Easter

Yes, it's true Easter was a month ago but I had so much fun this year that I had to share it with you.  For the first time,  Mommy let us decorate and dye eggs.  It was so much fun, I wish I could do it every day.  I remind Mommy almost daily that I want to do it again.  She just keeps telling me that we can only do it once a year though.  Grayson and I drew special designs on the eggs with crayon and then we dipped them in the dye as many times as we wanted.  I really love all the colors we came up with.

The day before Easter, we got to go to a really big Easter egg hunt at the city park.  They had a big field covered in plastic eggs and when they blew the whistle, we ran to get them and loaded them in our baskets.  Grayson didn't want any "girl colors" in his basket, so he kept throwing eggs out after Mommy put them in for him.  He is so silly.  Lots of the eggs had candy in them but a few had golden tickets in them.  We got 3 golden tickets!!!!  We were so lucky.  We took our golden tickets up to a special table and they gave us huge baskets with big prizes in them.  I still carry the big fluffy bunny I won everywhere with me.

On Easter Sunday, we dressed up in our very best.  Mommy took our picture and then we learned about Jesus and the Resurrection at church.  After church, we ran around the house hiding eggs for each other.  I LOVE EASTER!  I can't wait till the next one.

March, April, May...

I am sure many of you are mad at me for leaving the picture of bloody Grayson up for so long. I laughed and laughed about it. But so much has happened since then. Lots of catch-up to do. I will start with one of my favorite things that happened in the past moths.





A month ago, we celebrated my Grandma Thelma's 80th birthday. It was so much fun. All my family from my daddy's side came to visit us and we had a big party in a hotel in Salt Lake City. We dressed up, took pictures, played with our cousins and even got to do a program.





I sure love my Grandma Thelma and my Grandpa Johnny. I wish we got to see them more. I love going to Canada to visit them.

Oh, Grayson

Last week in the middle of the night, this is what Mommy found. Grayson covered head to toe in blood. This poor kid has had a rough time with bloody noses lately. Somehow, he manages to get blood everywhere when he has one. Even his feet! How does this happen?! Who else in the world has to take a bath every time they have a bloody nose?

A trip to Sunny CO

A few weeks ago, without much warning, Mommy packed us in the car and drove us to Colorado for a much needed vacation. We were missing Nana, Bumpa, Nash and all the Blandfords. We had so much visiting them and all our dear friends we left behind in Colorado.

We saw the musical "Beauty and the Beast" and Nash's school.

We had so much fun digging into Nana's dress-ups.  Grayson loves Batman

We had a great time playing with Marin and Susan.  

They are the best neighbors on the planet and it was hard saying goodbye again.

Be Milne on Valentine's Day

I can't even tell you how much I love Valentines' Day.  I had the best time picking out cards for my classmates and then signing them.  I also made cards for Daddy and Paige.  I loved getting out all the supplies with Mommy and making great works of art.  She let me cut, punch and glue and everything.

Grayson loved making Valentines for his class too.  He insisted on giving everyone squirt guns for their treat.  

Mommy made us these t-shirts for the big day and for our class parties.

p.s. Mommy finally let me cut my hair. I love it, I can't stop staring at myself in the mirror.

The Visitors

Two weeks ago, we were so lucky to have visitors from Colorado!  Nana, Bumpa and Nash came for a quick weekend trip.  We read lots of books and ate lots of good food together.

We all took a trip to see the new Draper Temple which is just a quick walk from our house.  Grandpa Glade and Grandma Coralie came down for the tour too.

Me and Grayson loved he Bus ride up there the most!

Thanks for coming to visit us, Nana and Bumpa!  We can't wait to see you again.  Hopefully, we make it out there next week and get to stay for a long time.