Bubble Blast

Recently I have been helping out my bestie and watching her girls a few days a week.  Being the awesome "aunt" I am, I am always trying to find fun things for the girls to do.  Plus it gets us out of the house and usually provides a few hours of entertainment.

Our local community center offered a Bubble Blast one morning so I signed us all up to go.  The activity was supposed to provide lots of different ways to play with bubbles. 

The first thing they did they got a small container with bubble solution and a straw.  They could blow through the straw and makes lots of bubbles.  The girls seemed to enjoy this.

Well, Avery and Hannah seemed to enjoy the activity.  Chloe refused to participate.  Apparently she is too cool for bubbles!













See, Hannah having a good time.  Chloe not participating.  Can't please everyone right?

There were also other bubble activities too.













All in all I think we were all a little underwhelmed. I was expecting more organization and everything was just haphazardly set out.  But I think the girls had a decent time and it gave us all something to do.

Plus there was a snack involved. Bonus.

Can we all agree that snacks make everything just a little bit better?

Avery has enjoyed having her friends over.  And although there is usually some bickering and tears (usually my child- she's kind of a drama mama) I know deep down they all love each other.

They kind of have to since their mama's are such good friends.

More adventures to come.

Chuck E Cheese Adventure

Avery had been begging R and I to take her to Chuck E Cheese recently.  I'm not sure why she wanted to go so much. She's never been before.  Proof positive that TV commercials do work.  They worked on my child.

Anyway, Avery begged us to go.  And she wanted to go with her besties Hannah and Chloe.  It broke my heart when we had to tell her no.  Finally all the stars aligned and we were able to all get together Memorial Day weekend.

Much fun ensued!

First order of business was riding some "rides".

Avery was very brave!

Lots of games were played.  Some Avery played by herself and some she played with her friends.

She even challenged her dad to a game of Air Hockey.

She let him win.

When Avery ran out of money, she stuck by Hannah (who was very frugal) and let Hannah pay for the rides. My girl learns early. Hannah was none the wiser.

Toward the end of our time, the girls rode one final ride together (Hannah's treat). I love how sweet these girls are together!

Ronnie even got in on the action.

And finally, no Chuck E Cheese visit is complete without a little dancing.

Avery scored a sucker and a pink ring with her tickets. I'm pretty sure that inflation has affected Chuck E Cheese. Seems like you could get a lot more with 80 tickets when I a kid!

I think Avery had a great time for her first visit at Chuck E Cheese. Now she keeps asking to go to the beach. Not sure how to pull that one off.

More adventures to come.

What Happened?!

Well my dear friends, it's been a while hasn't it?  I have missed our little chats and I've been racking my brain trying to figure out why I was such a faithful blogger for such a time and then dropped off the face of the Earth. I figured it out.

TV.

No seriously.  R and I don't have cable.  So it's easy to blog in the summer months when there's nothing on TV.  Then, the fall comes around, new shows are on TV and our TiVo starts to fill up with a bunch of mindless entertainment and I choose TV over my dedicated blog readers.  For this, I apologize...until the fall.

So here I am.  Summer months are on the horizen and I've seen all the season finales I care to this year. Hopefully, I can entertain myself with my blog for a while.  So a quick recap of what you might have missed over the past few months.

Valentines Day

Where we all got a little something.

Yep, those are Girl Scout cookies for Valentines Day.  Very romantic.

Avery got some special candy and her own rose from her daddy.

Don't ask about the Cinderella dress over the clothes. 

Challenging games of Pop the Pig

Have you heard of this game?  When you don't have cable and you let your kid watch kid shows on regular TV, you see a lot of toy propaganda.  Avery insisted on this game and Santa heard her cries.

It's exhausing.

You feed the pig these little hamburgers and then the pigs belly "pops" when it's full. It's quite entertaining.  For a 2 year old.

Avery was invited to a Royal party.

It was no party for Kate Middleton but I think Kate would have been proud!  Avery was invited to a Princess birthday party.

Including make-up and everything!

I gotta say, I think she was the most fashionable Princess there!

Pizza Party

Avery and her BFF's Chloe and Hannah got together for a pizza party.

Avery took her job of topping eater very seriously.

A good time was had by all.

Easter

Every year our town center has an Easter Egg hunt including a pancake breakfast (yum!), inflatables and Avery's favorite...

face painting!  Isn't she the cutest tiger you've ever seen?!

Yep, this is the only egg we came home with. 

We colored Easter eggs for the fist time this year!

And had an Easter egg hunt inside due to the less than ideal weather on Easter day.

My little Easter Princess with a new big girl haircut!



The family on Easter.  Not too shabby.

So there you have it.  The past few months in a big, giant, long nutshell. It's not easy summarizing 3-4 months in long abbreviated post.  There was so much more than just these moments. There was a very special 3 year old birthday party celebration in there but that deserves a post of its own.  Welcome back my friends.  Welcome back.

More adventures to come. 



Nutcracker Tea Party

So I took some time off from the blog over the holidays.  I missed blogging and sharing so I have a renewed spirit to be more consistent in 2011.

The next couple of posts will just have to be catch-up posts.  Not just so I can be sure that our life is chronicled but more so that my mom can see all the pictures she doesn't know she is missing (hi mom!).  Let's face it, blogs are all about the pictures right?  So, I'll catch you up throgh the holidays and all the fun things we got to do.

Avery and i so lucky.  My dear, sweet friend and her daughter invited us to a Tea Party before the Norman Ballet Company performed the Nut Cracker.

This is Meredith and Bobbi.  Aren't they gorgeous?!

Avery was so excited to get to go to a Tea Party!  She had to dress for the occasion.

The event was great because there were crafts, including tiaras.  A princess cannot have too many tiaras!

The girls also learned ballet steps from some of the cast include the Mouse King Himself!

Avery wasn't too sure what to think about the Mouse King.  That's about as close as she would get.

One of the Sugarplum fairies came to show the girls ballet steps too. It was so cute seeing all the little girls listen so intently to the fairy!

Seriously cute!

Avery talked about the beautiful ballerina princess for days, and days and days. Even today she will stand up on the tippy toes and tell me she is a ballerina princess.

Santa even made an appearance at the Tea Party!

This event was so much fun.  I was worried that Avery would be too young but she absolutely loved it.  Avery loves being around big kids so she was in heaven!  I am looking forward to going next year and maybe even watching the performance next time!

This tea party kicked off our Christmas season.  After this it seemed we had something going on every weekend.  You'll see more about our fun adventures soon! Until then, just look at this face.  Does it get any cuter?!