Look at these tall babes!! Cute cousins Addie

and Mia having a barbecue at our house Sunday.

They had lots of fun...

Eating

cute Gavin doing his own thing

playing

we loved having cousins over and playing with us.

Is it summer yet? I doesn't feel like it but we are

still eating popsicles. It's funny that we don't think

kids are as smart as they are, Mia told my mom

that she is going home to eat mac n cheese and

that mooom is going to eat a salad and said it very

sadly. Trust me I'm sad too.

So funny, she knows I'm on a diet?? What the heck?

This is Mia in the morning. She does not like to

be bothered until she has had her milk. She doesn't

get up til 9 and goes to bed at 9 and we have to go wake

her in the morning (we know how lucky we are) She LOVES

sleep ( so do we) So after this we were eating breakfast and

got into a mom daughter conversation about boobs and she asked

about hers and then mine and then said hers were little and mine

were big and I said yes, you can have big ones when you grow up and

she said, "maybe I can go to the store and buy some" I said, "Ya

you might have too!" (Heee Heee) Unless she gets her dad's side of

the family genes, she has no hope. :)

Mia got to go see my friend Denise's lab puppies.

She was in heaven. She LOVES all creatures

big and small.

She wanted them all to sit by her and she kept

saying, "Don't cry, please don't cry."
Then she decided to put each one
of them in the carrier and sit in there too.

She wanted to be surrounded.

I don't even want to think about what was on that

blanket. :)

Here is Mia singing her ABC's. She just loves to

learn. I hope she stays that way forever because

she is a little sponge right now.

What's Mia been up to lately? Started swim lessons

with dad (sorry no pics) and is doing very good

she doesn't do anything she doesn't want to though,

the swim teacher said it was her turn to go under and

she said No probably not. The teacher thought it was hysterical and couldn't believe she's only 2.

On Sunday she told me she doesn't want to go to church or get dresses and that

Mr. Bear doesn't want to either, she said I just want to wear something confy.

One thing about Mia, at least she's got manners when she's

got an attitude, I will say let's go to the store, No thank you mom

no thank you and she's full of please thank yous and will push you aside and

say excuse me. She's also been saying to me I promise ALOT, promise to eat,

brush her teeth, anything. Or just a couple more minutes mom. It's funny!

Rick smacked my butt as I was putting her in the car the other day and she

said, Oh no dad I think mom needs to go in time out!

favorite place: chucky cheese, My mom takes her

when she watches her sometimes and she LOVES

it. She puts the tokens in and just has a blast. The other day

I caught her on her pretend phone calling my mom saying,

Hi grandma, you miss me? Let's go to chucky cheese oh really

grandma , (laugh outloud) come get me in the jeep, by grandma.

She is a chatter box!!

playing in the backyard: the few minutes it's not

100mph winds.

This poor fish! We bought Mia a Beta fish to have
as a little pet and she named him goldfish which
I thought was cute. Anyway, this is what he deals
with- a huge siamese head trying to eat him all day.
Notice the wrap around paw? He is not letting him
out of his sight. We actually had to put him up
high because he almost had him completely knocked
over which wouldn't have ended very well.
He's such a naughty cat: he steals straws, paintbrushes,
knocks over everything in the middle of the night to wake you
up, meows LOUDLY throughout the night, so bad that he has to go
in the laundry room, bites, jumps up to counters and steals food, any food even cupcakes!
eats any fresh flowers I try to put out, eats Mia's toys and then throws
up, runs full blast across Rick's chest at 3 am ( his favorite)
and there's more, I just can't think of it. He's not my favorite cat right now.

Happy Mother's Day to all moms, mine especially

who is my best friend! This is my little best friend,

who is the best thing that ever happened to me

besides meeting her dad. Notice how tired I look and

how hyper and energized Mia is?? Why is this??

She takes every second of my day but I wouldn't trade that

time for anything in the world.

Here's Mia flying a kite yesterday, don't mind

the pizza face, and I always said my kid would never

have a dirty face :) she kept saying

hold on with both hands mom!

I found a Plex from Gabba Gabba kite

and it was a dollar, since when are kites a dollar?

so I got a few and she just

loves it, she got the hang of it right away.

Don't look at what Mia is wearing in this pic

because I didn't dress her :) these

are super cool creatures you can get at Star

Nursery and she wanted them all since Amanda

got them for her kids. Anyway they are super cool!

They have more animals then this, so you can

pick out your favs. She calls them her family and

babies and she kisses them constantly.

you have to trim them like the old chia pets

We took Mia to the Children's Discovery museum

a few weeks ago and even though it wasn't as big

as the one in Salt Lake, it was a lot of fun!

They had a whole Bob the Builder section that

was really interactive
Pretending to paint.

mini houses to climb in

cool boat to drive and even put your suitcase in.

they also had a Smiths where they could load up

shopping carts with food/water sections/ airport/

dress up stage, and a Bernstein Bears exhibit. We got

the year pass so we can go this summer too.

Here's Rick trying to get Mia to do some Marine

drills. It's so funny!!