McDonald's Playland

Sunday morning we went to breakfast with Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Julie, Jenna and one of Daddy's best friends, Andy Andrasko. We decided to go to McDonald's so the girls could play on the playland. Thanks to Aunt Julie and Jenna who were such good sports to climb around and up and down! :)

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Reagan loves those slides!!!

Our little dictator has started pointing to show us where she wants to go

Thankfully Aunt Julie is accomodating and was willing to take Kennedy up...

and up...

all the way to the top!

Kennedy was apparently not impressed with the trip down the big purple slide. Aunt Julie said she didn't think she went fast enough for our wild and crazy baby. lol :)

Kennedy apparently thought it would be funnier to try and get away from Aunt Julie.

Jenna and Kennedy playing Peek-A-Boo

Kennedy loved trying to get away from Jenna who would run from one side of the tree to the other

Thank you to Grammy for these adorable matching outfits! I have to tell a funny story about these outfits, however. While the jumpers fit perfectly the shirts seem a bit small. When I was dressing Reagan we were having enough trouble that we were both laughing while trying to get it on. Finally Reagan looked at me giggling and asked "Mommy, are you putting Kennedy's shirt on me?" lol :) I think she really thought I had messed up or it was truly some sort of a joke I was playing on her. It was pretty funny and we only laughed all the harder after that. lol :)

Visit with Great Grandma Ruth

Before heading back to Kentucky on Sunday, we made a stop to visit Great Grandma Ruth. Nonna and Aunt Kayci joined us for a while too.
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Warner 4 Generation Picture

Flinging beads with (at) Great Grandma from the Homecoming Game is so much fun!!!

Kennedy kept trying to get a look at Great Grandma under her hat

Great Grandma putting sunglasses on Kennedy

Kennedy doing her best to put sunglasses on Great Grandma

Reading one of her favorites "Peek-A-Who?" with Great Grandma

Reading a Sandra Boynton book with Aunt Kayci

Reagan, who you can tell from the pictures above was her usual cooperative picture taking self (not...), enjoyed cookies and a sticker book which Nonna brought for her

Messy fingers!!!

Only one thing to do with messy fingers, right? Lick them off! lol :)

Finger Painting

I always loved finger paint growing up. I found an easy recipe for it and so we made it yesterday. All it takes is 2 cups of water and 1/4 cup of corn starch. You bring the mixture to a boil until it seems like the right consistency and then remove to cool. You can make whatever colors you'd like using food coloring. We did the primary colors so Reagan could experiment and mix whatever other colors she wanted from there. We had lots of fun and have plenty of finger paint left over for the future.

Reagan mixing her colors. Next time I think I might give her just two colors at a time so she can really see them change colors vs turning a weird brown/purple. lol :) We learn as we go and at least she had fun mixing it around! :)
Kennedy wasn't really quite sure what we were trying to do her to her and spent more time looking at her fingers and hollering about them than actually "painting" lol :)

Busy Baby!

As anyone who has spent much time with Kennedy can attest to she is one busy little girl!!! I even hear Reagan occasionally telling her "Kennedy, you are a busy body girl." Actually, Reagan has figured out a pretty clever way to tell on Kennedy without really tattling. If Kennedy is about to get into some type of mischief that I'm not seeing Reagan pipes up with "Mommy, what is Kennedy doing?" It is said very innocently of course. ;) Anyhoo... yesterday afternoon for some reason Reagan was wanting to read books under our desk in our office. Kennedy was playing with some toys I had set out for her by our feet when I heard something and noticed she was gone. I looked out from under the desk we were under and saw she had climbed up in our computer desk and was on top of our printer. She went back at it again today while I was quickly checking e-mail - boy does she move fast! I mean I was sitting in front of the computer and printer and she got herself all the way up and in before I noticed what she was doing. Without saying anything further let me please present Kennedy's new climbing apparatus...

Kennedy was trying her hardest to get back into the desk further but not even little Miss Houdini herself could figure out how to squeeze through that small space!

Tim's Birthday

Today was Tim's 32nd birthday and we had a nice relaxing day. We visited a church this morning (which we really liked). When we got home Reagan and I made a Dirt Cake for Tim per his request and from his Grammy's recipe. Dan, Dorothy and Heidi came over for a while in the late afternoon for a visit. This evening we had Tim's favorite Surf and Turf meal as a family. All in all a very nice day!

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As I mentioned above, and you'll see below, we made Tim a cake. When I called Grandma Karen and Grandpa Jim to get Grammy Alta's recipe, Grandpa suggested I have Reagan help by smashing the cookies. I thought that was a fantastic suggestion but Reagan became very upset at the thought of stepping on and breaking all the Oreos. Poor thing! Kennedy decided it was fun, however, and after Reagan had the chance to calm down she joined in the fun too. Then on a whim I decided to give cooking with Reagan another try (we haven't attempted anything since the cupcakes last December) and we had a wonderful time! She did an awesome job and was such a good cooperater all day today. Without the first complaint she even picked up a bunch of toys for me that Kennedy had made a mess of this afternoon. She can be such a little sweetheart and big helper! Hope you enjoy the pictures of her helping make Tim's cake. :)

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Kennedy enjoying the opportunity to play with a plastic bag, cake pan, and cookies.

Reagan decided it was a little bit of fun to smash the Oreos after all :)

Mixing the French Vanilla Pudding

Putting the butter and cream cheese in the mixing bowl

Adding the Powdered Sugar all by herself

Stirring the mixtures and the Cool Whip together

Checking out the egg beaters. Regan was more interested in simply sticking her fingers in the mixture we had created than licking the beaters. Why mess with those tricky beaters when you've got a whole bowl of good stuff sitting right in front of you. I have to admit she had a point...

Spreading the first cookie layer

Decorating Daddy's Dirt Cake with Gummy Worms. When I first asked Reagan what she thought about putting worms on Daddy's cake she immidiately replied "He will not like that." Even after she realized they were candy worms she still told me they were "slimy." lol :)

Being very fastidious in the placement of the worms

All done!!!

Reagan serving the cake after dinner

I got this out of order. Reagan was a perfect little lady and served Daddy and Kennedy first before getting her cake. :)

Giving Daddy and Kennedy their super yummy Dirt Cake

Kennedy getting ready to try out Daddy's birthday cake

Kennedy was so cute because she grinned from ear to ear and after her first bite of Dirt Cake. She obviously thought Daddy had a good idea for a birthday cake!

Reagan enjoying the fruits of her labor

Reagan was such a big helper today. After dinner and dessert she helped carry the dirty dishes to the kitchen. Looking at these pictures Reagan looks like such a little lady to me. My girls are growing up too fast!!! :)

Thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes for Tim he appreciated them all! :)
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Thank you to Aunt Debbie and Uncle Wayne for the adorable matching dresses the girls are wearing. They looked so sweet today!