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Mini Vacation

We are currently on vacation in New Jersey for my mom's 60th birthday. We have been having tons of fun. Especially because my sister and niece flew in from Wyoming just for the party. It has been fun being Aunt JuJu for the first time. I have a million pictures to post and will do that after we head back to VA. Tonight it is packing and getting ready for the drive home tomorrow. I am posting one picture of me and my sisters. I love them and love the picture. More soon.

Cheap Date

Today I am flying solo with the kids like we usually do every once in a while. So after skating lessons this morning we headed home for a little lunch when I remembered that today there is a Kidgits activity at the mall. For those of you that don't know Kidgits is a kids club through our local mall. Actually they have it a bunch of malls own by the same group that owns our mall. I signed both kids up though MacKenzie rarely gets to reap the benefits. What I like about it is that the membership fee is $5 for a full year. When you sign up they give you a t-shirt and at every event there are premiums for members. Then once a month on the third Thursday at 10am they have some kind of activity. Usually it is a story time, but every once in a while it is something really fun like Gymboree. And then there are special activities like today that happen on the weekend. So I packed the kids up and headed to the mall. Once there we hit the sign in desk to collect our goodies. Today the premium was a canvas apron, lollipop, cellophane cone, and a cool little baking set. the first station that we hit was the lollipop bouquet table. This table had flowers that you could color then you poked your lollipop in the middle to make it a flower. Next we made candy bracelets out of shoestring licorice and fruit loops and then "trail mix" out of raisins, fruit loops, and Cheerios to put in our cellophane cone. Final stop on our activity list was the painting station. I was smart to keep that last because I didn't bring the stroller and I knew I would have to carry two aprons withe wet fabric paint so keeping that last was good. After we painted our aprons (I help Cam if you couldn't tell) we got our treat which was a sample of Rita's Italian water ice. Best part of that was they were giving out a coupon for buy one get one free, which we very quickly took advantage of. So all told we have a very nice outing that the kids enjoyed and in the end it only cost me a total of $2.64 (the price of the Rita's I had to buy to get one free). I get so jazzed when we can come up with something cheap and easy (no clean up on my part) for the kids to do. To add to our cheap date we will be heading off to one of Kenzie's friends softball game (also free).

Splish Splash

We don't have a flat back yard or much grass so last year I bought a small round hard plastic pool to put on the deck for Cameron to play in.  We do take the kids in the front every once in a while to play in the sprinkler but I wanted something he could play in while I was cooking dinner or sitting on the deck.  Well this year we upgraded to a bigger pool.  The little one was just fine for Cam but Kenzie expressed interest in playing in the pool and the little one just didn't fit both kids.  So Kenzie and I headed off to Kmart a few weeks ago and picked up a bigger pool.  That was fun fitting it in my car.  It barely made it.  Matter of fact Kenzie rode home with the pool over top her head.  Lucky for us Kmart is only a 10 minute trip from our house.  The kids love the pool.  Kenzie likes when Cameron takes his naps and she can take all the toys out and just float on the ring.  The love it.  I hate that it take up so much room on the deck but if it makes the kids happy and cool in the summer than I will deal with it.

This is my favorite picture so far. He had a blast torturing her.

Happy 3rd Birthday Cameron Douglas

Our baby isn't a baby anymore.  It is hard to believe that 3 years ago we were just saying welcome to the world to this tiny (well sorta) baby boy and now he is anonstop, on the go, curious, fearless, funny, loving little boy.  

Little People

I love little people speak. We just got done dropping Kenzie off at school and when we got home and I was getting Cam out of his car seat I asked him why he took his shoes off. He didn't answer but I told him that he was just going to have to carry them into the house. I got him out of the car and handed him his shoes. He turned to me and said "I love my toes outside". Translation I love being barefoot. He is my kid.

At the circus

The family and I are at the circus and I wanted to see if I could post from Robs phone tons of pictures to come!!!