May marathon

Okay, is it just me, or is May just total chaos?? Here's a bunch of random goings on that didn't make it to the other nine posts I've done this month...

 Luke, making a pool for his gummy bears in his swim mask: "I'm not making a mess, it's SCIENCE."

Then I caught him with some styrofoam peanuts and asked him to clean them up. So of course he did this instead:

**serenity now**

This is how he chose to clean it up. It took a really long time.

Isabelle trashing my wallet

And trashing the diaper basket, and she managed to unscrew the lid to her prescription diaper rash cream and dig around in it.

Showing me how she can throw her food on the ground outside as well as inside.

Not to mention the laundry...

End of school explosion, which I always looove!

Luke also broke my tripod. 

I am beginning to see a pattern to my stress here. Kids! YAY.

Tiger knows what I'm talkin' about!

Those two. Yesterday they made "glove buddies" by filling vinyl gloves with water and drawing faces on them. They have their own beds and everything.

Madelyn's shell shop

And her cute new glasses!

Choosing a new water pistol is serious business.

Sleepy kids

 Nappy hair


At her one year checkup

Isabelle is getting ready for our beach vacay in two weeks.

We had a get-together with some of Mark's family on Memorial Day weekend. We will be going to North Carolina with his whole family for a week on the beach. We are excited but I am super busy trying to get ready.

 We are doing a group quilt and I am trying to figure out what blocks I will be doing. I haven't made any yet so I'm cutting it close. This week I'm going to pound them out! (Fingers crossed...)

My little sweetie had a fever from her one year shots and now has a cold. She is wearing me out!

 Couch forts

 Celebrating my sister Maria's bday

 Celebrating my dad's bday

Mark's official new business card

Obi-Wan Kenobi in the rain. We are almost done with our Star Wars marathon.

♥♥Cinderella♥♥ (I have to share with the girls)

 Family pic from yesterday. Love my little bunch!

Isabelle's first birthday bash

Isabelle's birthday bash was less of a bash and more of a hastily thrown together family party at the end of a very busy day of school and errands. But Mark at least had the day off, so that was nice!

 The birthday girl started off Year One with a bang. I had just changed her stinky diaper and was scooping out the litter box (my life is so glamorous) when I heard shouts from the bathroom. Mark was in the middle of cleaning out the fish tank and was dumping the dirty water and Isabelle wandered in and Oh! Look at all this water right here --I've never been able to get to it before and went for a splash IN THE TOILET. Yes.

I  have a feeling that I'm going to have a lot more gray hairs by the time she finishes her toddler years.

Anyway, we cleaned up and changed clothes and Mark showed her the music video to "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." He says it is our girls' life in a nutshell.

Then she watched Sesame Street, which is her favorite part of any day.

Later that day, we had my sister Maria, Shay, Emery and Nora come over for pizza, cake and ice cream.

 

 Isabelle gave out free snuggles to Shay and Maria.

 Getting warmed up with an un-frosted cupcake

 Present time! She got completely spoiled by us, her cousins and two sets of grandparents. And her great-Gma Mary sent a card and a brand new fiver like she always does.

 I made her smash cake from scratch (a vanilla cake recipe that was a total disaster) and the cupcakes were a boxed pink velvet cake with added chocolate mini chips.

 Happy birthday to you, sweet girl!

 She thought this cake and the was the BEST THING EVER. She got the frosting up to her armpits.

 A bath was necessary.

The sweetest thing was watching her give her new baby doll loves and a kiss.

What a precious girl and we love her so much!! Happy birthday princess!