What a Difference a Day (or two) Makes!

So here's the scene Wednesday afternoon. It was almost 70 degrees and sunny! Perfect. Allison reassembled the snowman in the front yard. Trust me, there was an entire three section snowman here originally...


Katie and Becky played some ball! Notice the short sleeves and the DISGUSTING black snow pile behind Katie.

Now, here's the scene from this morning. Ed is snow blowing about a foot of snow!

Katie and Allison are playing in the big snow pile at the end of the driveway which is now pure white instead of BLACK!

And Becky is shovelling away on the front porch, where on Wednesday she and Allison were blowing bubbles! Ahhh...winter (?) in New England!

On a TV note; When is America going to wake up and stop voting for Sanjaya on American Idol!?!? The boy is so sissyish I find it difficult to watch him! Perhaps I'm jealous of his hair...NOT! Haley needs to go too! I LOVE Lakisha for the girls and Blake for the guys!

LOST...So Clare and Jack are half siblings, hmmm... And Jack is making nicey nice with the others, hmmm... I think John has a dark side which is being revealed oh so slowly. We'll see.

Amazing Race All Stars... Now the Rob and Amber have been eliminated who will I like!!?? Maybe Uchenna and Joyce.

Tomorrow night Rebecca St. James and Delirious are coming to town. Katie and I are going. Should be a good concert. Katie's friend and her mom are going too.

I made a yummy dinner the other night that even Allison scoffed down! I'll post it soon.

Birthday Pictures

Pictures from Allison's birthday...

Here she is...all smiles (perched on the coffee table!)

This is the cake I made for the party we had with Allison's friends. She saw this cake in a picture from Becky's 4th birthday and decided she wanted one just like it!

This is the other cake I made for when my parents came down. I love the smile on her face as she gets ready to blow out the candles. Notice she is wearing rainbow wings! Barbie and the Magic of the Rainbow is becoming her new thing.

Here she is 'cleaning' her new dog from Build a Bear with Memere and Pepere looking on.

I took this one outside of Build a Bear. One of the advantages of being at the mall early on a weekday is that I didn't feel too ridiculous taking a picture in the mall!

And this one I put in here because it's so cute. We got Lucy a crab to play with and she looks so funny when she carries it around like this. She LOVES stuffed toys!

Allison's Birthday!

Allison is four years old. I can hardly believe it. She's fun, imaginative, silly, charming, joyful, and beautiful. For all the fits the child gives me she also brings such happiness to our lives. Happy Birthday Sweet Allison.

We had a fun and busy birthday weekend. Last Friday we started with a party for some of Allison's friends. We had six preschoolers here for cake, ice cream and presents. What a fun time she had until her friend Lauren made her mad and she smacked her. You read right, Allison smacked Lauren! Thankfully she apologized and no one was any worse for the wear!

Then on Saturday my folks came down and we had more cake, ice cream, and presents. Then we all (I mean ALL, my folks included) sat at the table for about an hour and played with Play Doh! That stuff is addicting! I bought a huge 24 pack of play doh and she got some for her birthday so we had TONS of it to play with!

Monday was Allison's actual birthday so of course we had to do something to acknowledge it! So my parents and I took her to Build a Bear at the Holyoke Mall in Springfield, because that's the closest Build a Bear to us. It's about an hour away. She picked out a really cute dog to 'blow up' as she calls it. Then we went to Friendly's for lunch where we had a super sweet waitress who rounded up a crew to sing Happy Birthday to Allison when they brought out her sundae. The WHOLE restaurant sang to her! And then EVERYONE in the place clapped for her too! It was so cool. I think I enjoyed it more than she did!! I think she felt really special, until we went to Penney's and she sat in a tippy, child sized patio chair and fell over. She hit her head on a square pole and ended up with a HUGE goose egg and even a small cut! So for the rest of the day all she talked about was how she got a big boo boo on her birthday!

And if that wasn't enough birthday celebrating, yesterday at her school they had cupcakes and sang to her one more time! I will post pictures later. Blogger is not cooperating - SHOCKER!

Now life is back to normal and I now have a 12 year old, a 7 year old (for another 3 1/2 weeks) and a 4 year old! I'll enjoy the break between birthdays, but I'm already making mental plans for Rebecca's party! Her birthday is the day after Easter this year.

A Question for YOU!

I've been sitting here for a few minutes thinking I should post something and not feeling like I have anything to say. Interesting, I know. Me, with nothing to say... Usually I can come up with something.

How about a question for you to answer!?

You're stranded on an uninhabited island in the south Pacific. Who's one person or what's one thing you'd want to have with you?

For me it would be Bear Grylls from Man vs. Wild! He's like MacGyver. The guy could either get us rescued or keep us alive indefinitely!