The Practice Party!

It's hard to believe but this weekend my baby girl, Leah is turning 2! It seems like just yesterday she was fitting into those tiny little newborn diapers, and now she is just about potty trained...I'm not complaining about potty training mind you. One less kid in diapers around here would be just heavenly!!! She is doing really great with it for the most part, now she just needs to figure out the pants up and down part. But anyway, we were fortunate to have my mom here this past weekend for a visit. It's always so great for us to have family visit. They all live so far away and we miss them dearly. But It's always special to have "Gigi" here. She is such a big help and what girl doesn't love seeing her mom?!? It ended up being a gorgeous weekend. The weather was really warm which allowed Leah to be outside all weekend. We even brought Kiersten's little bouncy seat out and let her sit in the yard too. Gigi watched the girls while Mitch and I got a lot of things done around the house. Mitch finished tiling the front porch. I mowed the lawn and on Saturday we put all the fence post in together...now we just have to put up the actual fence panels. The weather was so sunny and warm we were able to blow up Leah's little pool and let her have fun in the water. She LOVES the water. I am looking forward to going home in June and taking her to the Country Club pool with her cousins.

On Sunday afternoon after her nap we had a mini-birthday party for her. She was so excited about the cakes. My mom found these cute little character cakes at the supermarket for $3 each so she figured since Leah was turning 2 she needed 2 cakes...sounds reasonable right? Anyway, one is a frog and one is an elephant. Leah couldn't wait to get her hands on them. Every kid loves cake and ice cream and Leah sure had her fill...I'm sure she will be just as enthusiastic this Saturday at her real party. Thanks, Gigi for the practice party!!!