Abby's 2!!

It's crazy to think that we have a 2 year old on our hands. This 2 year has come complete with tantrums, crying over things like being told that "no, you cannot wash your hands in the sink for 10 minutes straight with the water on high" or "yes, you do need to put on clothes to go outside." But along with the tantrums comes many hugs and kisses. It is so fun to watch this little person grow up right in front of us and makes thinking about having another one even more exciting.

May 29th marked Abby's official 2nd Birthday. We decided that the weekend before her birthday was a perfect time to get family together to celebrate. It was a fun weekend, so I'll summarize in pictures. 

Helping Grandma water the garden.

Inspecting her "meowing" kitty cat card from Uncle Clint and Aunt Becca

Trying on her new helmet for her new tricycle! 

Inspecting the new ride (we had actually let her try it out when I first got it and she had stuck a cracker in the bucket in back, which someone forgot to take out) 

Taking a ride (she still cannot pedal it on her own)

Where are all my presents?? 

Bubble lawnmower, they both needed to play with this, at the same time, which then turned into tears.

Feeding her babies in their new highchair. 

I'm not sure where she gets her flexibility from.

Bath time, jammies, and then watching a movie together. 

The fire was bright, so she insisted on wearing her sunglasses

Smore time!

Andrew make FIRE!!

 This is Abby's actual birthday. I once again got a cupcake from Nadia's for Abby, which was delicious. She enjoyed it and ate it all but the frosting. 

Trying to take a swing. 

Our summer is busy as usual but we did manage to find some time to take Abby to her first Brewer game. We had hoped that we would make it to one in Milwaukee, but were unsure if this would happen, so we settled on taking her to the Brewer/Twin game here in Minneapolis. Abby made it 6 innings which I was very surprised about. By the time she got strapped into her car seat she was fast asleep so I would say it was a successful trip to the ballpark. 

First ballpark dog

Why eat the bread when you can just eat the hotdog?

Watching the game...I'm sure this lasted about 5 second before she started climbing on the chairs again.

Enjoying some ice-cream.

Always has to have her finger up her nose:)

Well that about sums up May and early June. We are now into July and lets just say our last week of June was pretty fun, filled with an adventures to the horse track, 30th birthday parties, bacheolorette parties, and a whole week up at the lake. But I'll save those stories for next time. 

Easter and Mother's Day Picture Dump!

I'm a little behind in getting pictures up, but late is better than never. We have had a great past month, starting with Easter and ending with Mother's Day. Easter, like always was great. We headed home to my parents in Wisconsin and participated in the annual egg hunt at ended the weekend down in Milwaukee with Andrew's family. I'll summarize Easter in pictures.

Looking through the family Easter basket. Yes, I am a 29 year old that still searches for her Easter basket. 

Blowing up balloons with Grandpa, in big girl undies. 

Coloring Easter Eggs!

Matching cousins.

Kaiya trying to show Abby where one of her eggs was located.

She thought that she had to put all of the eggs she had collected back on the ground.

Finding eggs with Kaiya.

Gavin about to make his first solo walk across the bridge.

Made it!! (she did not want to recross and had to be carried back across)

Best Friends walking hand in hand. (This may be one of my favorite pictures!)

Watching a movie with the cousins.

Yup, that's as good a family photo as we're going to get. 

The month of May started our busy "summer" weekend plans. I'm pretty sure that there are only 2 weekends until September that we do not have something planned. I can also not count this as summer yet, since it is still 40 degrees out and there was frost last night, but at least the grass is green and the flowers are starting to bloom. My parents visited for the weekend and I had planned for awhile that we would lay brick edging around the house. We picked up all 10lb 228 bricks from the store at 9am and finished the whole project at 4pm. My mom took the task of watching Abby for the day, while Andrew, I, and my dad dug, leveled and laid the bricks. Yes, I did lay most of the brick, although there are no pictures of me. Andrew does not take pictures, but believe me I did a lot of the work of laying bricks. I did not dig. I am extremely happy with the way it turned out, but if we had to do it again I'd rent a edging trench digger machine (which I learned from a recent patient that it would only cost about $50 to rent for a day).

Sunday marked Mother's Day. It was special to once again have my Mother here and celebrate together. We packed up early in the AM and headed over the Florian Gardens in Eau Claire for lunch with the extended family and Abby's great grandma. It was great to have everyone together and Abby had a wonderful time smelling all the flowers. 

Yup, she picked one of the flowers off.

Great Grandma and her all her great grandchildren.

Grandma and her grandchildren

And to sum it up the following are just a couple random pictures from the past month from my phone.

Giving her a baby a bubble bath

                 Making Waffles

Practicing to be just like mom! :)

I don't know how she gets herself into these situations.