skye turns 3!

our beautiful, goofy girl is 3 years old.

Although these pictures make her look much too old :-(

Her energy, spirit and personality keep amazing us daily!

She is thoughtful, loving, caring and gives the best hugs and kisses. 

She is witty and smart and silly and funny. 

She can also be stubborn and a handful, but what child isn't ;-)

we can't believe she has become the wonderful little person she is in only 3 short years. 

Skye loves to dance and sing (especially Frozen songs), read books, do puzzles and crafts (mama's girl) and watch tv.

Her vocabulary is crazy!

She loves her mama, daddy and BabyRhysee. Her "whole fam-a-ly".

Her favorite movies are Cars, Planes: Fire & Rescue and Frozen (over and over and over).

Her most prized possessions are her ARplanes (airplanes), monster trucks, stickers, bandaids, balloons and of course bunny, sooey, blankey.

She isn't picky about her clothes or shoes yet (thank goodness).

She IS picky about food lately. A LOT. She used to eat everything, and quite a bit of it. Could be coincidence, but ever since she was sick with a fever a few weeks back she doesn't eat much at all. Probably just a phase…hoping. A few of her favorites are "pamcakes", waffles, toast with butter, carrots, apples & PB, cantaloupe, blueberries, marshmallows, yogurt bottles, black olives (a can at a time), pizza (with extra olives), milk, water, treats…CUPCAKES!

skye is 30lbs and 37.75" tall. she wears a size 3/4 and size 7'ish shoes.

Her sleeping is still a work in progress…and will likely always be that way.

our favorite girl is 3 years old and we are so blessed to have her!

xoxoxo

Three (Skye) things Thursday

1. So the kids and I went to Southcentre Mall shopping last week for daddy's birthday presents. And even though Skye is getting somewhat better about not taking off on me and kind of listening when I call her back, I still can't trust her as far as I can throw her (not that I would throw her of course…) :-)
So we were in Below the Belt and I was looking thru a stack of tshirts for sizing and Skye was exploring, but I could see her thru the aisles. And then of course the next time I glance she is gone…and I get a little frantic when I call and she doesn't peek around the corner. So I start searching thru the store as I am heading towards the exits and I still can't see her. So now I am getting a lot more frantic thinking she bolted out to the mall. Well I am just about to run out and check, when out of the corner of my eye I see something and then did a double take. Skye has climbed up the display, into the front window and is standing there looking out at the passers by!! And she had a few observers who were quite amused by it all. What a kid. I'm sure she was oblivious to the fact that she looked like a mannequin, but it was quite funny after my heart slowed down. Back in the stroller she went…

2. Skye learned about the Lego movie from the little boy at dayhome and has been asking to watch it. And she has also been all messed up with her sleeping schedule. Lots of days she is exhausted just before dinner, and even though I try to keep a very close eye on her while I am making dinner, she always manages to fall asleep on the couch the second I look away. And she is impossible to wake. So she will have a long "nap" and then be wide awake till late! This is why we cut out her naps during the day totally.
So last night Dino and I were going to sit down to watch some TV, but Skye was still awake. So we said she could sit with us for a little bit before going back to bed. She assumed we were going to watch the Lego movie and when daddy turned on the TV to something else the conversation went like this:
Skye: "uh where's the Lego movie"
Daddy: "we aren't watching the Lego movie"
Skye: "YAH we are" in a matter of fact voice.
We both started laughing at the almost 3 year old who acts like the boss.

3. Also last week, Skye was making some cards with stickers and her markers, while I went to put Rhys for a nap downstairs. I came back up and she was playing in the living room so I asked her "are you all done coloring your cards?" and she said "no, I colored my cheeks". And she turned around, and I looked up, and my jaw hit the floor. She definitely had colored her cheeks. And then I burst out laughing as she smiled so proudly and did a demonstration for me! haha. Thank goodness for washable markers! It came off SO easy.

Lordy Lordy - look who's 40!

not me! yet…haha.

BIG happy birthday to my hubby Dino! You don't look a day over 40!
JK.
xoxo

For any that are confused - today is Dino's "real" birthday, as opposed to his "legal" birthday, which is March 12, 1975.
The story is that he was born on the 10th, but never registered until the 12th. I guess his parents couldn't decide if they were keeping him or not?!
So while the family celebrates it on the 10th, lots of other people know it to be the 12th. He says he gets a whole "birthWEEK" because of it and tries to milk it for all it's worth.

Of course, some of us were obligated to razz him on this BIG birthday while we could:

Skye & Rhys got daddy a shirt that they knew he would love!
Even if it only becomes his pajama shirt ;-)

Skye also picked out some funky socks and bright shoes she thought daddy would like (he choose the purple over the Superman high tops - haha)

I worked really hard on my "chocolate bar poem" card - because Dino LOVES chocolate bars
(maybe even more than he loves me??).

He was quite impressed with it and really liked the line about "payday" - haha.

My sisters & BILs gave Dino a jar full of suckers with the title "40 Sucks".

The neighbors brought over wine and Crave cupcakes - yum!

And some very dear friends of ours wanted to pay their respects with some decorative lawn ornaments.

Dino took Skye out early this morning, as he was leaving for work, to show her the "birds"

Dino didn't want a grand party, so we will just have his family over for dinner this weekend.
I'm sure he enjoyed all the attention though and would like to thank everyone for making him feel special ;-)

Itsy Bitsy Aviana is 1!

We went to Edmonton this weekend to celebrate Aviana's first birthday. Geez these kids are growing way too fast…and she seems too small to be 1 already. But I guess she is similar to the size Skye was when she turned 1.

smash cake - so cute!! both cakes were amazing

It was a great party and very impressive! Cora did a fabulous job with the party planning! Especially since she never does that sort of thing and is only starting into the crafting world a bit - haha!

The theme was itsy bitsy spider and it was so cute. The kids had lots of fun and the cake was yummy. It's too bad we couldn't have stayed longer. Skye was really upset when I told her we had to go home cause daddy had to work. She had it all figured out "daddy go home and we stay at Auntie Kucha's" haha.







Poor kid. Even though she had been running a fever since Friday night, and wasn't really herself all weekend, she still wanted to stay. Not sure what she might be coming down with…

yummy pasta dinner

first birthday cake!

All the kids were getting in on the cake. :-)

Skye COULD NOT WAIT to eat the big cake.

I have never seen her so cake crazy!! She saw it sitting on the dining table well before the party started and kept asking to have some. And I kept saying after we sang happy birthday to Aviana. Of course, SHE started singing right away in hopes that would be good enough.

So FINALLY when Uncle Ted carried the little cake to Aviana and the singing was being done, she saw her opportunity. And I turned around just in time to see Skye BOLT to the other big cake at the dining room table and reach up her hand to dig in - I actually had to yell at Dino across the room

"stop her!".

OMG it was too funny.

She had to try the little cake too :-)