"I Wear Dis"

We have all felt the gloomy disappointment of not being able to fit into our "skinny" jeans but no one more so than my dear Tatum. A few days ago, she brought me her baby's pants and said "I wear dis". After telling her they were too small - for an HOUR - I was desperate to stop the tears so I forced her little body into the even smaller pants.

This was the result and the best shot I could get because she thought it was funny that mommy was chasing her in her new fancy pants.

First thing this morning, Tatum came to the breakfast table saying "I wear dis". Too bad she didn't want the tiny pink pants again. Today, she wanted to wear her even smaller baby's unisuit. The doll is no more than a foot tall. That means she wanted to put on a 12 inch unisuit, not 12 inch pants.

After trying to explain to her that this outfit was REALLY not going to fit, I even tried to put it on her feet. She continuted to demand "I wear dis"- so I resorted to what any self preserving mom would - I gave her a warm cinnamon roll and turned on Mickey Mouse. I will mention that it even took Mickey a few minutes to calm the tears.

Happy Saturday!



We've Been Doing A Lot Of This

 Sleeping and

Trying to hold heads up

Under the Weather

Unfortunatley, Tatum caught the sniffles and because she is always lovin' on Graham so much he got them too. Boo! Tate was under the weather for roughly 48 hrs so I'm hoping that Graham will feel better by tomorrow. Sickness only settled in after our weekend...

 Tatum was invited to two 2nd birthday parties - we helped Naomi celebrate in the morning and Micah celebrate in the afternoon. Pictured above is Graham and Micah's 4 month old sister, Charlie.

 Here is a picture of Tatum an Micah when they were babies. I don't see a whole lot of resemblence between the four....yet

And Sunday we brunched with the Wiegands.

I hope we are all happy and sniffly free soon!



Thursday

We started the day with blueberry pancakes - a special request of Tatum's

And continued with this sweet snuggle. This would have been much sweeter if Graham wasn't sleeping. I guess newborns really can sleep though most anything.



Wednesday

 A bed full of babies...what a great way to the start the day. Looks like Daddy needs a few more minutes to rise.

 We braved the STEAMY weather this morning to help Peyla celebrate her 2nd birthday at the splash pad.

The cupcakes made bearing the heat worth it!

RIO

 Tatum has been doing a lot of this lately. Fortunately, Mickey is always on call when I get in a bind. Unfortunatley, Tatum asks to watch him first thing in the morning, last thing at night and every minute in between! I'm hoping this is a temporary "fix" for both of us.

 In light of her TV enjoyment of late, it's no surprise that she had a ball watching her first movie at the theater. FAVE treated Tatum to a big bag of popcorn - which she ate all of - and a morning showing of the movie RIO. FAVE reports that she watched the movie in it's entirety despite the seat trying to engulf her -- apparently all 24 lbs of her can't keep the movie seat open.

While Tate was at the show, Graham did this.

Our Monkey Turned 2

Our monkey turned 2 and we couldn't help but BOUNCE with excitement on her birthday. Tatum and 15 of her friends celebrated big and here of some of the action shots. To summarize, they jumped, laughed, bounced, giggled, danced, climbed and ate cupcakes -- F-U-N!

 What a beautiful girl

 We were all about monkeying around

 Tate couldn't wait to bounce...

 and climb...

 and Graham was happy to sleep through the entire party. I'm sure he was bouncing in his dreams.

 Brave girl sliding down all by herself

 And smiling while she's doing it

 Hand in hand

 Tatum was smiling even after many face plants

 And of course Dad was right up there on the slides

 Peek-a-boo

 Pizza and cupcakes were well deserved after all their jumping

Graham and his future girlfriend, Ali