Copy Cat

Okay, I'll admit it. I'm totally going to copy my friend Shar (who actually copied some other people), and do pretty much the same post as she did when she went out of town a few weeks ago.

I am heading up to Utah to visit Derrick and I don't plan on updating my blog while I am up there. So for any of you who visit my blog and see this post, I want you to comment with questions that I will have to answer in a post when I get back. What kind of questions? Oh, whatever comes to mind. They can be serious or silly or anything in between. I'll answer them all in a post when I get home. The deal is, I have to answer them HONESTLY!

I thought this was a fun idea, so I hope you all play along. Hopefully my kids will get a kick out of my answers to your questions someday.

Memories....

As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you have of you and I together. It doesn't matter if you know me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

Nothing like reminiscing......right?  It's sure to bring a smile to my face, and hopefully yours!

Next (if you choose to), re-post these instructions on your blog and let people leave a memory about you.

If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.

Our Cecily is Three!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CECILY!

I can't believe our little princess is already three years old! It makes me so sad that she is growing up so fast, but I love seeing the wonderful little girl she is becoming.

Tonight we celebrated Cecily's birthday by having some friends and cousins over for pizza and ice cream cake.If you can't tell, the cake is a Tinkerbell cake. Cecily is still totally into the Disney princesses and fairies, so she was totally excited about this cake!

Sabrina, Sage, Cecily and Sophia

Some of our favorite things about Cecily:

Cecily has the sweetest voice. When she speaks, she shows "ownership" of the things she loves such as, "My Ainsley," "My Daddy," "My Jessie," "My Brett," "My Tinkerbell panties," "My raisins," "My kids," The last one referring to any child on the face of the earth. She absolutely LOVES other kids and is the friendliest little thing!

When Derrick gets home from work, she immediately goes running to meet him at the door and is ready to give him hugs and kisses. Cecily is very affectionate. She likes to give lots of hugs and kisses. And she gives THE BEST hugs and kisses!

Cecily is such a tease. She loves to play games and try to trick you. She is great at putting puzzles together, but she will pretend to put a piece in the wrong place and say, "Does it go here?" Of course she knows it doesn't but is just checking to make sure you are paying attention. Her mischievous look when she is doing this is priceless!

Cecily has very good manners (most of the time). Some of her first words were "please" and "thank you." She'll also throw in an "Excuse me" and "Bless you" here and there. If you sing the "clean up" song with her, she's totally up for cleaning.

Enthusiasm? Our Cecily's got it. Our favorite phrase from her is, "Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah!" Her excitement is really contagious. I hope she always has her zest for life.

Cecily has always been a very independent child. She likes to do things by herself. Although this can get her into trouble at times, it also makes her a very good helper at other times.

Many of you have probably noticed all of the pictures I have of Cecily sleeping. This is seriously one of the most amusing things about our Cecily. This girl can sleep ANYWHERE and through ANYTHING. Here are some of the most recent pictures I have taken of her sleeping. How on Earth did she not fall on her face?


It's so pathetic, I could cry! Don't worry, I put her in her comfy bed as soon as I was done taking pictures. The other night we got some dust or something in the smoke detector and it set all of the alarms off in our house at 11pm after we were all asleep. We all woke in a panic except for Cecily. She snoozed for the whole five minutes the alarms were going off! Even Derrick doesn't sleep that deeply!
Cecily got some roller skates for her birthday. Doesn't she look fabulous? She was SO excited!

Here's little Ainsley participating in the fun.

Well, Cecily, I hope you know how much we love you! Our lives would be missing something really special if we didn't have you in our family. We hope you continue to grow up with your enthusiasm, sweetness and laughter. WE LOVE YOU, PRINCESS!!

SUMMER SCHOOL!

Cecily has been having so much fun these last few weeks doing Summer School.  A couple of friends and I have gathered our kids together 3 times a week (one day each at one another's home) for two hours and the kids have a lesson, activity and play time.  The kids love it, and I have to admit I have loved it, too.  And not just for the 4 hours a week I have one less kid!  I have really liked coming up with fun lessons and activities for the kids.  And Cecily is really learning things!  I love it!  Here are some pictures of a recent day at my house.  We were learning about the sense of hearing:

This is from another day.  Cecily with Aqua and Sophia.  

Aqua just moved away, and we are really sad.  Cecily really loves her, and they are good friends.  We wish her and her family the best.

Oh, and the best news is that Cecily is pretty much potty trained!!  HURRAY!  It's been a long time coming, mostly because I wasn't being consistent enough.  But Cecily finally decided that she can do it, and she loves wearing her cute panties!