Isn't it funny how once you have kids, you really don't have

your own birthday anymore? Your kids pretty much take over

everyone's in the house... Mia even pointed to each one of Rick's

presents last week and said what they were , these are pants, this

is a hat, etc. Apparently I need to hide Christmas gifts better this year.

 They help blow out candles...

 They try on your presents

 open your presents...

 attempt at a family pic but Mia is more concerned with putting

her finger in Rick's cake (her cake really)

 She just kept saying, Happy birthday dad!!!! I'm so excited

it's your birthday, you are 2 years old!!

 Eating the cake- that she thinks is hers...

 Happy Birthday Babe- 30 years old!!! So glad you

are finally in your 30's like me. Ha Ha!! I planned a surprise dinner

party Saturday night with FRIENDS only, no family cause I wanted

it to be all about him and everyone came, 19 total from work and even

his high school friends, it was great! The only thing was that he spotted a few

vehicles in the parking lot before we walked in but other than that, I was proud of

myself for hiding it that long :)

Mia just out of the tub

 Night before Rick's surprise birthday dinner: getting his

hair brushed by Mia. She now calls him daddy horse!

 We went to a car show in Henderson and Mia's favorite

was this pink jeep

 And the french fries with ketchup

 Out of all the cool cars, she picks the golf cart because it's

just her size she says...

 This is for you Nicole- Mia is now officially at the stage

of making the cheese face for pictures

 After church, bonding time with Spock

He's obsessed with her bed- so my mom and dad are back

from being in Idaho for almost 4 weeks, so I got home from work

yesterday and Mia says to me, I'm going to grandma's and you can't come

Okay how are you going to get there, she says, oh Mo can take me (her sitter)

I said, she's already gone and she said well I can go get a little car to drive there like

my little jeep. I finally convinced her to LET me drive her to my mom's. We pulled up

and I said, " Can I at least take you to the door." Sure mom but then you just

need to drop me off. So we get to the door, my mom answers and she says, bye mom

come back and pick me up we are going to make cookies and you can't come. Then she turned

around and said, " Have a nice day!" It was hilarious, this coming from the child who FREAKS if

I go to the bathroom without her, but she was ready for my mom to be home :)



Morgan- Mia's new sitter bought Mia a Centennial

Bulldogs shirt and we went to the football game last Sat.

night. She loves Morgan- calls her Mo, and she loves

that she doesn't have to leave her house every day when

we go to work, she even gets to go play with Lilly and Nicholas

one day a week. It's perfect. Mia has been cracking me up lately.

I was changing in my closet naked and she came up behind me, started

patting my butt and said, "Oh Mom, you have such a cute little bum!"

It was precious. Last night I tried to get her to wear pull ups to bed

instead of her diaper ( she's only in panties during the day) and she said they

were TOO pink ( they were princess ones) and then she took my face in

her hands and said, "It's okay mom don't be sad that I don't want to wear pull ups,

I will just keep practicing in my diaper." She also named all the octogons she saw

yesterday, yes octogons. She is just too smart for her own good, very bossy too!!

We love to go over to the neighbors and feed their horses

apples and carrots. They love Mia so much that they literally

run to her even from far away ( they love the apples/carrots too)

She is such an animal lover- I am too, so it's funny to see how alike

we are. She's also an Aries (Me too) and I feel bad for Rick sometimes

cause in the morning one minute she will want to cuddle with him and then

the next minute she'll say, "Just don't speak to me dad, just don't speak to me!"

She is DRAMA!! Aries are very much Rams so I just tell Rick it's like he has 2 of me around:)

Ummm did I say drama? Look at this cheese!

She isn't afraid of them at all

She just puts the apple right in their mouth even with those

big teeth. I LOVE horses ( maybe one day grandma/grandpa B

will have one )

I can't even express the fun I have with Mia. She is just

my little best friend. I loved spending the summer with just

her and me hanging out. Even though I can't even pee without

her saying, "mom watcha doing? and the fact that I've made 5 batches of

chocolate chip cookies this week because she wants to help cook, I love this

little cutie !

Mia has now become her own one man band. It is hilarious.

Here she introducing her band.

Being creative is very exhausting :)

It feels like Chucky Cheese is our second home lately

Mia is so creative, she came up with this train of Gabba toys

 and even found a "conductor" hat she told me.

I can't even explain the love between Mia and her cat.

He's her VERY best friend, along with a few others :)

Since this is like her journal and I print it out, I have to write this,

she even makes me go and get Spock when she goes #2 in the potty,

 I have to physically pick him up so that he sees what she did and then she

yells, "look Spock are you so proud of me, I such a big girl." So cute.

Here is his favorite place, in the dryer with new warm clean clothes.