The Girl's Princess Birthday Party

We did a combo birthday party for both the girls. Today is actually Courtney's birthday, but to make it easier on family far away we combined the girls' celebration together. We invited lots of family and friends and we even invited Princess Belle. We hired a princess to come and she did the whole party. It was perfect! The girls were all so entertained and enthralled.

We started the day by singing to Coco as she woke up. Then we brought her down stairs and she got to open all her presents from Mommy and Daddy and Nana and BopBop. She was definitely overwhelmed by all the presents. Soon Grandma came with "Uncle" Paul, and she and Caylee opened more presents. We all hung out and I made Coco a special birthday breakfast. Meanwhile she wanted to sit in her high chair and eat Cocoa Crispies. Since its her birthday I let it slide. After a while GakGak and Mimi came over. Courtney was so excited to have so many people over all for her. She played with her new toys all morning long.

Daddy invited everyone to go down the street to Chili's for lunch so I could get the girls down for naps, get ready and clean up the house.

Our friend's the Mier family offered to host the party, because we had too many people and not enough room. So we headed over and dressed Courtney and Caylee in their princess dresses. They were so cute! I worked on setting things up and guests started arriving. Courtney just loved all the attention. Caylee was a little more shy about all the chaos.

Daddy hired a "Princess Belle" to come to the party. She was so great. She did the whole party, magic show, face painting, balloon animals, dancing, singing, pictures. So when she walked in Courtney and her friend Haley screamed in excitement! Courtney kept looking at her and saying, "Belle!". She couldn't believe she was actually there. At one point during the party, my friend told me she overheard her say to Belle, "I'm so glad your here!".

It was so much fun to watch the girls with her. They all had a blast. Courtne was nervous about getting her face painted, so she got tatoos like Daddy. Then all the kids wanted tatoos. Auntie Laura made Courtney a pretty Princess cake. Leaing up to the party if you asked Courntey what she wanted for her birthday, she'd say, "Cake". Then she gave Laura more details; Chocolate and pink. That's what Laura made for her, a pink chocolate cake.

We had a great turnout of family and friends, about 50 people filled the house. It was so fun for the girls to have everyone they love around them. Everyone stayed late after the party and the "after party" began.

We ended the weekend with Daddy leading worship at church. A fun fun day for the girls and definite memories were made.

Finally an ordinary day!

We have had a series of events (not fun ones) that have kept us out of the house all day then we had the weekend mixed in there which is never normal. So the today was the first in a while that we have had at home. We also, last week started school back up again. Courtney was so excited. She kept asking to do it again. So today we were able to do school again and she begged me all morning to start. We are going thru all the letters. When she focuses she can recognize alot of them. Just the uppercase ones. I'm doing zoo phonics with her, she likes that because it is motions and letter sounds too and it almost is like a song.

Once Caylee woke up, I worked on putting stuff in away in the girl's room while the girls played. It's so hard getting anything done in there.They make a mess as Im trying to clean up. Then I have to clean up their mess afterwards. I hate that their room is messy, but it always seems like Im transitioning clothes in and out.

We did lunch and Caylee did really well eating table foods. She has not done well with fruits and veggies in the past and today has done so well. It's like she changed over night. She also started saying "wa wa" for water.

We did storytime for Coco before naptime and Caylee was crazy. She kept torturing Romo and attacking Coco and I. It was funny, but I was trying to calm the mood down for Coco's nap. Caylee is now on a new nap schedule so she is up for almost 2 hours while Coco naps. This make doing errands difficult. Our window between naps is pretty narrow. Oh and now I have 2 hours of just Caylee and I, which makes getting housework done a little difficult while she is awake. I think I'm going to have her do playpen time in the afternoon also. She can get around the house really fast now which means she is into everything. Oh and Coco taught her about the Tupperware cabinet today. Huge mess!

After naps, i had to do some vacuuming and so Coco got out her vacuume and she vacuumed right along side me. Then I made dinner while
the Caylee ate and Coco played. We have been invaded by ants lately so I wasn't able to play with the girls like usual. I cleaned up dinner and then I gave the girls baths.

A pretty typical day.