Exsilio Co Picnic at Irvine Regional Park

The next day after Charlotte's birthday we headed over to Ryan's new company picnic at Irvine Regional Park. Ryan's new co-workers were very friendly and it seemed as though many of them have very small children. The kids spent about 4 hours jumping around the inflatable obstacle course and had pizza from a mobile retired fire truck. We all had a really good time.

Ava and Charlotte tackling the obstacle course. Charlotte surprised us by being able to do the whole course by herself! Sheesh. Ryan went through the obstacle course with her about three times and spotted her to make sure she was okay. She has better climbing skills than we knew.

Ava climbing up to the main slide at the end of the obstacle course. Yes, Charlotte can do this by herself! Yikes. They were both loving it.

Charlotte's 2nd Birthday!

                                                              Charlotte's 2nd Birthday!

Charlotte turned two years old on Saturday, October 20th, 2012. They weather was a bit cooler than usual, but we took our chances and had a small get together at Cabot Park in Laguna Hills, CA. We had intermittent drizzling throughout the time but took it with some ease. Charlotte had a great time with family and a few friends. She had a Hello Kitty theme and really loved her balloons.

                                                           Sneaking a taste of her birthday cake.

                                                 Tres leches and fresh strawberries birthday cake.

                             (Ava has been making some "funny" faces instead of smiling lately. Aye.)

                                              It was a great birthday and now it's time for a little nap.
                                     Thank you to everyone for making my birthday so fun and special!
                                                            Being two is going to be awesome!

Fall Leaves and Spider- Craft Project

A few weeks ago we did a small craft project at home. We talked about the seasons and what happens during fall and tried to teach Charlotte some basic colors. They also got to practice how to use plastic droppers and their fine motor skills to transfer the water colors from the muffin tin to the coffee filter leaves. Once the "leaves" dried we hung them on our patio window.

                                             
 We also made black Halloween spiders with their hand prints. Although, I don't have a picture of the final project. We learned that spiders are not insects. Spiders are called arachnids because they have eight legs. Insects have six legs.

The final project is actually two hand prints over lapping each other at the palm. The thumb part of the hand print is cut off and you are left with four "legs" on each side of the spider. Lastly, we added wiggle eyes to the spider and drew a little mouth on it and hung it on the wall. I might put up a picture later on of the final project. They came out pretty cute and I am hoping to save their spiders to remember how little their hands use to be.

Me at 34.5 weeks Prego

A quick snap shot of me at 34.5 weeks pregnant with our baby girl number three. Ava is 3years and ten months old in this picture. She is super excited about having a new baby sister. She kisses, hugs, tickles and puts stickers on my stomach all the time for the "new baby".