Happy 2nd Birthday Frank!

Tonight we went to The Little Gym to celebrate Frank's second birthday. The activities were a lot of fun. After the the children played, they ate pizza and watched Frank blow out his candles. Then the kids ate birthday cookie. Thanks for inviting us to such a wonderful party Frank! Happy Birthday!

The children enjoyed the pizza!

Sallie is helping Frank blow out his candles

Saturday Morning at Funzone

Coleman met Eli, Conner and Breelan at Funzone this morning for a playdate. It was so fun watching the four children play. Their ages were all in the same 5 month range, which made it easy for picking the toys to play with. After the Funzone, we went to Chick-fil-A. All of us moms were so tired after jumping and climbing up and down on the air blown toys! What a fun playdate!

Eli posing for a picture with Coleman

Let It Snow!!!

Our big snow storm (a whole inch) arrived at around 3:00 this morning. Bailey and Daisy, our curious cats, began looking at the window at around 4:00 a.m. We laid in the bed until around 8:00 a.m., and Coleman woke up around 8:00 a.m. We enjoyed taking things slow this morning. David and I finally went into work around 10:00 a.m. It was so nice to see snow in Columbia. This was Coleman's first time actually being in the snow (not counting when he was in my belly, and I was in Chicago.)

Coleman thought the snow was pretty neat! He enjoyed saying snow. I think it reminded him of no!

When Elmo Grows Up

We drove to Spartanburg today so that Coleman could see "When Elmo Grows Up." I think Coleman spouted the words "Melmo" a hundred times today. Elmo is Coleman's favorite character. Our seats turned out to be great because we were on an aisle seat. Count von Count even patted Coleman on the head! Grover also walked up to our seat. Several characters left the stage from time to time in order for the children to get a close look at them.

Coleman and I had to get our picture with Big Bird and Elmo as soon as we arrived

The Pageant

Abby Cadabby, Zoe and Elmo

Surprise David...

I have spent the last month convincing David that we had a baby shower to attend on January 17, at 7:00 p.m at the Ascot Clubhouse. I started the story as soon as we received a "fake" invitation in the mail. I am still unsure as to whose phone number was on the invitation. I then found out that the O'Learys planned a birthday party for Lilly-Margaret on the same day from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. This appeared to be an obstacle at first, but it proved to be a blessing in the end. My parents and Jason helped out with Coleman and getting everything ready during the day while David was at work. I told David that I was going to help out with the shower, due to the fact it was at our neighborhood clubhouse; therefore, I was able to convince David to hurry home from work, so that he could take Coleman to Lilly-Margaret's birthday party.

The guests arrived at 6:30 p.m. I invited a few of David's co-workers, family, and a lot of high school friends. I kept the party fairly small. At 6:45, I continually called David in order to make sure he left the Funzone in plenty of time to arrive around 7:00 p.m. David was completely surprised! After the surprise, we partook of beverages, ate barbeque and ate cake.

Happy 40th birthday David!

David is checking out the koozies that I had made for him

David blows out his cake with Coleman's help. Coleman clapped after he blew out the candle.

Happy Birthday Lilly-Margaret

Saturday was a busy day! I was trying to get ready for David's surprise party, but before David's surprise party, David took Coleman to the Funzone to celebrate Lilly-Margaret's 4th birthday. We did not get any pictures because I had the camera is anticipation of David's arrival to his surprise. Happy Birthday Lilly-Margaret! Coleman really enjoyed your party!

Happy 40th Birthday David!!!

Today was David's 40th birthday. When David came downstairs this morning, Coleman was waiting for him with a Big 4-0 balloon. After work, we met David's parents and brother's family at Yamato for dinner. We ate lots of food, sang and had cake. When we got home, Coleman and I gave David a Nintendo Wii (which was impossible to find in the store!) and a family cruise out of Charleston. Happy Birthday David! You are now "Over the Hill".

Coleman and his Daddy

Coleman waiting for Daddy with the Big 4-0 balloon

EdVenture

We met Conner, his mom, Emily, her mom and her dad at EdVenture this morning. This was our first visit to EdVenture, and we were very impressed. We began the day by sliding down EDDIE, the world's largest child. This was a very neat exhibit because you could see the organs of the body on the trip to the slide. Coleman's favorite part of the museum was the Piggly Wiggly grocery store and the snowball throw in Snowville. We spent the morning visiting the exhibits. After visiting the exhibits, we went downstairs to the virtual McDonald's. All of the children were very tired and ready for a nap, so we left the musuem around 12:30 p.m.

We posed in front of EDDIE

Coleman, Conner and Emily "ringing up" their groceries at Piggly Wiggly

Conner, Coleman and Emily playing with the cupcakes

Happy New Year!

We went to Tracey's and Ivor's house in to ring in 2009. I thought we would leave around 10:00 p.m., but Coleman made it until 12:30 a.m. I was shocked! Thank you for inviting us to such a wonderful party guys!

David, Coleman and I ringing in the New Year

The kids were all playing together

Cooper even rung in the New Year!

Coleman at 14 Months

Coleman celebrated his 14 month birthday by hanging out with Mommy. We started the day by going shopping and finding some really good deals! We met Ashley and Christy for lunch at Miyo's. Coleman loved the fortune cookie. Then Coleman took a long nap. When Daddy got home, we ate dinner, and made a quick run to Target to purchase some balls for Coleman's ball pit and an Elmo video. Coleman loves his "Melmo".