Top 5 Saturday Laughs

Welcome to the weekend!! This week was one where the days were long, but the week was short.  I can't believe it is time to write my laughs for the week already!
5.  We had our first snowfall of the season this past Thursday.  I love how excited kiddies get over the first snow.  When leaving daycare, I bundled Claire up so she could play in the snow on the way out.  She was prancing around in the front yard, yelling "This is SO much fun! I love walking in snow, I love eating snow, I love playing in snow."  It actually made me excited for the snow too.
4.  The favorite after dinner activity in our house has been a dance party on our bed.  Claire loves jumping, so jumping and dancing on our bed is right up her alley.  It also seems that Natalie likes to jump (with Ryan helping her), she giggles uncontrollably (until she gets brutal hiccups and then continues to laughs some more).  The squeals and laughs are enough to turn any day good!
3.  Claire and I were watching Toy Story 2 one morning before Natalie woke up.  I laughed at one of the adult jokes in the movie.  Claire looked me dead in the eyes, stating, "That's not funny Mommy." This made me laugh even harder.  She just kept looking at me like, why are you still laughing?
2. With Daylight Savings Time this week, our kids have had their schedule thrown out of whack. After both girls were down, Ryan and I were sitting down in the living room.  I asked him if he thought that both girls would sleep through the night (Natalie has yet to do this since I've returned to work).  Before he even had a chance to answer, Natalie let out a loud scream.  We both cracked up and knew that the answer was no.  Of course, both girls were up that night.
1.  When I get home, I love to put on my 'comfy' clothes.  Yoga pants and one of Ryan's shirts were the attire of choice for the day.  Claire asked me why I was wearing Daddy's shirt.  I said because it was comfortable.  She then said, that's nice that you and Daddy share shirts.  I agreed that it was good to share.  She then asked, "Does Daddy wear your shirts?"  I could hardly stop laughing long enough to tell her that Daddy wouldn't fit into my shirts.  
Make sure you visit Melissa's blog and link up your laughs of the week!!  I hope you have a wonderful weekend!!

Favorite Things Friday Blog Hop

I know it is late in the day, but I have a new favorite thing on my blog...a header!!!!!!!!!  I always just had the title written in the top of my blog.  Thank goodness for good people to help me out!  Jamie from For Love of Cupcakes and my hubby were instrumental in making the new 'look' happen.  Pretty soon I will even have a button!  I feel like I actually have a 'normal' blog now!

Thanks again Jamie and Ryan!!

Wordless Wednesday :: My 30th Birthday Party

I have been wanting to blog on this for a couple weeks now and haven't found the time, so I am going to take the lazy route and use a Wordless Wednesday to post my favorite photos from the party.  Thank you to all my family and friends who came over to celebrate!  I love you all very much!!

I feel so loved!

A special thanks to my husband for working so hard to get ready for the party!  I love you :)

Top 5 Saturday Laughs

I am so excited to share these this week as it has been an exceptionally funny week at our house.  I think I could have written a Top Five for nearly every single day this week!  Here are my favorites for you.

5.  Ryan made homemade chicken noodle soup this week.  Having a toddler, we don't normally use too much seasoning since she is rather picky. While we were eating dinner, Claire took the salt shaker (which is a grinder) and shook it over her soup.  She then took a bite and said, "It's not so yucky anymore." I sure hope Ryan will still cook dinner ;)

4. Natalie has taken to undoing her diaper.  The second she can get her hands on it, she is successfully unfastening the tabs.  We are now keeping a onesie on her at all times!  She of course, thinks it's so funny and laughs when you she does it (or maybe at our reaction).

3.  During one of the morning visit to Natalie's crib.  Claire yells out to me, "Mom - come in here, hurry up, see what Natalie is doing."  I came in the room and Claire enthusiastically exclaims, "Mom, she said Claire!!!"  She was very excited and it was adorable!

2.  Ryan was carrying Natalie forward facing and must have moved her diaper to the side in the process.  She of course had a massive messy diaper.  I was getting Claire around for her bath and heard a 'splat', followed by Ryan, "I need a little help here."  I took Natalie from him to clean her up.  She didn't get a drop on her onesie, but left a present for Ryan on his hand and shirt.  He proceeded to clean the floor, but when he bent over 'the present' transferred from his shirt to his pants.  While I was changing Natalie's diaper and was literally crying over the situation.

1.  This goes with #2, but requires a little back story.  That same day, we running SO late in the morning.  We are typically somewhat late, but that morning we were REALLY late.  We rushed out the door and to the car.  Claire always climbs in her seat while I put Natalie in the other side.  I came around to Claire's side and turned on her DVD player and closed the door.  I neglected one thing, I forgot to buckle her in!!  We were about two miles down the road and Claire yells, "Mommy, you forgot to buckle me up!"  I quickly pulled over and buckled her up, apologizing profusely and thanking God that nothing happened.  So obviously, that's not funny.  The funny part happened while we were cleaning up the mess from #2, we overheard Claire in the living room playing with her baby, "I'm SO sorry that I forgot to buckle you up baby."  I don't think I will EVER forget that again!

Make sure you go over and visit Melissa's blog The Mommyhood Chronicles  she is hosting this great blog hop and had some really funny things that happened in her house this week.

Favorite Things Friday Blog Hop

Friday November 4th

I am joining another Blog Hop from The Sippy Cup Chronicles!  I am super excited to share my favorite thing from our week.  Our girls are starting to interact together more and more and actually play.  It is so fun to watch!!  Here are a couple photos from a bath this evening, I am so blessed!

Wordless Wednesday :: Our Halloween Fun

We crammed lots of Harvest and Halloween fun into the last couple weekends.  We visited two pumpkin patches (the first was AWFUL), two trunk or treatings and two grandparents houses to visit on Halloween.  Good thing we have two girls since two is our number this year ;)  Here is a photo recap of our fun!



:: Pumpkin Patch #1 - Since they wanted $14 for a medium sized pumpkin, we visited saw the animals, ate a donut and then went to Meijer for pumpkins.  Natalie was napping at Grandma & Grandpa's house

:: Painting pumpkins with Aunt Andria, Uncle Jason, Dakota and Baby Boots

Baby Boots

:: Pumpkin Patch #2 So much fun!  Natalie went with us too :)

:: Trunk or Treating #2 (see post about Trunk or Treating #1)

:: Trick or Treating at Grandma Maggie's House

:: Trick or Treating at Riley Grandma's House

Hope you all had a great Halloween!!

Top 5 Saturday Laughs

This week has gone SO fast for me.  I can't believe that it's time to write Saturday's laughs already!  I am excited to share a few of the best laughs of this week and actually had the opportunity to get some photos to share along with the post.  I hope you enjoy these as much as I have.

5.  Tonight while Claire was brushing her teeth and stalling like it was nobody's business, I let out a large sigh.  She looked at me and asked, "Momma, why do you say that?" I replied, "Claire, Mommy is tired and really wants to go to bed but you are stalling."  She then responds, "Yeah, I am"  She then gave herself the sweetest smile in the mirror.  I couldn't help but crack up at the situation that she not only knows how to stall but recognizes the fact that she is stalling and is rather proud of herself.

4.  Natalie has been sticking out her tongue constantly, it is super adorable and rather funny since it's always out there.

3.  We went to my in-laws house on Thursday night for dinner.  Claire went to play in her room which is very common.  My mother-in-law soon calls me from her doorway to tell me that I needed to see what she was up to.  Here's my view as I looked in the room.

When Grandma asked Claire how she got up there, she responded, "With my stool."  Didn't we obviously know this?!  Then Grandma posed the question, "How are you going to get down?"  This took a little more pondering, but her response was classic,  "I might need a little help."  Grandma and I cracked up, which made Claire think she was the funniest thing ever.

2.  In addition to the tongue, Natalie has been doing raspberries all the time lately.  She does it once then if you do one back, she will mimic you.  Then she laughs about how funny the interaction has become.  I forget how funny babies can be!

1.  Ryan is an 'engineer brained' guy.  This means anything and everything is taken very literally.  That is the main reason this is SO funny to me.  After her bath, Claire was running around the house naked (a VERY common practice at our house, she loves being without clothes).  She started dancing and jumping around, shouting, "Check out my tushie!"  She just kept saying it, sticking her bum out.  When Ryan asked her, "Where did you come from?"  She responded, "The bath."  I wish I could have gotten a picture of his face, he had his 2.5 year old daughter bust out the standard engineer response on him!

Make sure you check out the blog hop at The Mommyhood Chronicles for more wonderful laughs to kick your weekend off right!