Max's First Birthday Party

Max's First Birthday Party didn't quite go as planned this year. The kids and I all got sick a couple days before the party, so after much discussion, I canceled the party. However, since we had all the stuff, we set it up and had a family party instead.

Here are the favors... gold paper crowns, swedish fish, magnets of Max, and there were also little sailboats for the kids.


Max enjoying the sun on my parent's lanai.
Max hitting Dave in the head. I'm sure Dave deserved it.
Our happy family!
The cupcakes my fabulous sister made.
Max in his birthday crown.
Sophie torturing Max. She wasn't pulling his hair, she was just lightly running her fingers through it, and you'd have thought she was stabbing him. He was totally freaking out.
Max and his crown cake. Also courtesy of my sister.
Turns out he's not a fan of cake. Must take after his dad, because everyone knows how much I love cake.
I can't believe Max is already one. He is talking, he says book, ball, Mama, outside. He walks everywhere. He's such a fun and happy boy.

Sophie is Officially Three

Some interesting things about Sophie:

1. She LOVES princesses. She calls me Princess Mommy and herself Princess Sophie. Also, to her, pink means good, pretty, all is right in the world. As in "Mommy, my teeth are pink" (after she's brushed them). She does have a tough tomboy side however. She loves to make mudpies and roll around and get dirty.

2. She wants to play at the park every day with her friends. Rain or shine. She can't wait to have playdates. Although she is still mastering the art of sharing.

3. This kid loves her some t.v., movies, that gray snow that's on the t.v. every once in a while. It's all good to her.

4. She loves Max, but does not want him touching her stuff. Or his stuff for that matter. As long as he's sitting quietly staring at her, she's happy. Otherwise she's calling him a bad baby.

5. She really, really likes sandwiches. She eats other food, but she is pretty happy with a sandwich and some water. She keeps asking me for a zebra sandwich. I'm pretty sure she means a sandwich in the shape of a zebra, but just in case I'm wrong I'm not questioning her too closely.

6. She's got the potty training down pat. I'm super impressed with her, and happy that I didn't really have to do anything but stock a prize box for bribing purposes.

7. She loves to read to herself or have someone read to her. During time out I find her sitting on the floor in her room reading.

8. She is the most stubborn person I have ever met. She gets that from Dave. She can also hold a grudge (she also gets that from Dave), she is still talking about the time I spanked her and it's been almost three weeks.

9. She tells me she loves me and she also tells me I love her. She tells me, "Mama, you miss me", even when I haven't gone anywhere.

10. She is fascinating and changes everyday. I can't wait for tomorrow (although I'm seriously apprehensive about 10 years from now).

11. She adores Dave. I mean full out ADORE, she thinks he hung the moon and can't get enough of her Daddy.

12. She has such a wonderful imagination, it is so wonderful to see her pretending to be a princess, monster, puppy dog.

Sophie on her second birthday. I can't believe how much she has changed.

Trying on her new clothes on her third birthday.

Sophie's Third Birthday Party

We held Sophie's third birthday party a couple days ago. I'm getting tired just thinking about it. The house is finally clean again... just in time for Thanksgiving. We had so much fun at the party. So many of Sophie's friends were able to come and enjoy the day with us. We didn't have any party games, but we set up play tents in the backyard and had lots of paper and crayons for the kids to play with. We had a garden party theme this year, so lots of butterflies, caterpillars, and flowers throughout the house.
Sophie requested pink cake, but she had to make do with pink cupcakes and Chocolate Crunch Cake. Crunch Cake is the traditional Edgerton family birthday cake and it's so yummy. I was tempted to color the icing on the cake pink, but I got busy and it just didn't happen.


Here's Sophie in her birthday finery. I bought the pink pettiskirt for her when she was about seven months old and since it has a super adjustable waist it still fits.

You can see Max's new teeth in this photo. He was a great little guy during the party and loved all the attention he got from the ladies.

Sophie's birthday tutu didn't make it through the entire party, I was super glad I put leggings on her when she took her skirt off in the kitchen in the middle of the party.



She couldn't quite blow out her candles by herself so Dave and I helped.





Sophie received so many wonderful gifts. She is now enjoying serving tea on her new tea set to all her new dolls. She also got several new books. It's always nice to change out her bedtime story for something new.



Here are the favor bags I slaved over... kidding it really didn't take that long to cut out the green bags so they looked like grass. I got the idea from Martha Stewart courtesy of my friend Sherry.

In the favor bags was a flower hair clip for the little girls and a tic tac toe bag with felt X's and O'x along with a little wind up caterpillar.
Sophie had so much fun at her birthday party. We're also having a mini celebration on her actual birthday with more cake and more presents from her grandparents and us. I guess I better go through her toys and get rid of some of the things she doesn't play with anymore or all her toys are going to take over the house.

I'll leave you with an image of Dave after two and half hours of a three year old's birthday party...

From Sitting to Standing

Max hit the eight month mark a couple days ago and promptly pulled himself to stand in his crib. He had pulled himself up one time prior on a toy designed to encourage standing, but I was quite impressed when I found him standing up in his crib instead of napping. He can also scoot along on his tummy anywhere he wishes to go and he moves fast! I am vacillating between pride that he's growing and doing all this fun stuff and horror that he can get into anything he wants to. It illustrates that our house is NOT baby proof. You might have noticed a little bruise on his head in the second photo, that would be his first injury, he got that when he headbutted my dresser. He's a tough little guy though and barely cried.

He also has two teeth now. Other than some teething issues he is still a pretty happy little boy. Max loves that he can now eat real food and munches away on Gerber Puffs and Mum Mum rice crackers throughout the day.

Rock and Rolling Max

I can't believe Max is 7 months old. It seems like time has just flown by. Max was a little late to the rolling game. All his little friends were rolling long before he managed to move his giant baby body off his back or tummy =). Although now that he's mastered rolling he can propel himself around a room and even into another one if he wants to. I watched him yesterday roll across the office to Sophie's play stroller, turn it over and proceed to chew on the wheels. I don't think it will be long before he starts crawling. Which will present some problems since Sophie isn't inclined to share her toys (or his for that matter). I spend a lot of my time telling Sophie to give Max back his ball or car or whatever he happened to be playing with.