who would have thought...

...we would ever see Aaron & Dave having tea parties and tagging along to Princess parties?

Congratulations to Marti, Dave & Aila who are expecting another baby this winter! Aila will be a great big sister!

a cute little photo collection

I have a handful of photos from the last month that I've had in my blog file waiting to post. Since I'm behind on blogging I've decided to take the weight off my shoulders and dump them all into this file...

enjoy




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Does not play well with others

While you won't any see photos of Lola taking toys away from Celia or screaming "NO" in Lily's face you will see plenty of other photos from our family filled weekend in Illinois here.

Fan impressed with miniature horse

Lola got to visit with her friends Hal, Becky & Fan over the weekend.
First she fed the fish in the pond. They really like bread crumbs. Who knew?
Second she twirled like a princess on the porch.
Third she showed Fan her farm animals and last she took out all of her medical equipment (Erica's doctors kit) and gave Fan a physical. Lucky for Fan she passed the health exam and didn't need a shot or a follow up appointment. Congrats Fan!

It was great seeing you all! Unfortunately I don't have a photo of Lola & Hal since Lola decided to keep her distance. Hal was lucky he scored a high five on our way out the door.
Poor Hal.

Jen's Baby Shower Extravaganza!

Congratulations again to my pregnant BFF Jenny for being pregnant! Gigi, Lola and I traveled to Ottawa Hills this afternoon to attend her baby shower. While I was disappointed that there weren't live elephants at the event I was pleased nonetheless with the elephant cookies. Lola was also very impressed with the cookies as well as the lemonade. Lola did get some red frosting from the cookie on her perfectly white dress. Gigi has been instructed to use Oxy Clean (RIP Billy Mays) and get that spot out tomorrow. Good luck with your task Gigi.

Jenny's baby shower was magnificently put together by her Mom and sister. Like every party Mrs. L throws it was FAB! Jen used one of her nursery painting as the theme. She special ordered a self portrait of Kong, an elephant in Thailand, who actually used his trunk to paint the masterpiece above. Kong's artwork was put onto the invitation, mugs, tea bags and probably more stuff that I forgot about already. Amy used her letter press to create all of it. She's awesome.
Make sure to check out more photos here.

Now it's time to sit back and wait for little Stella or Caden to make his/her debut!!!!

Love you Jen!

Happy Birthday My Love

xoxo

The Erica Mystery = SOLVED

A couple of weeks ago Lola announced that her bitty baby had a name, Erica. We were curious as to where this came from since we don't know any Erica's aside from Erica Kane and Lola doesn't know her. Maybe there's a girl at school named Erica? I asked around and found out that wasn't the case. I was sitting at home one afternoon thinking about this and pretty much coming to the conclusion that we must have a house ghost named Erica and she is haunting my daughter... then the phone rang and on the other end, just like Nancy Drew, I hear Angela's voice "Emilee, I know where Erica came from"




Erica is a dancer on the Summer episode of Yo Gabba Gabba!
We (Aaron, Ian, Lola and I) went to the TV, turned on the trusty DVR and launched the Summer episode. Sure enough there she was, "My name is Erica and I like to dance!" Lola gave a big smile and said "Erica!"