Not busy, kinda

There isn't much going on in my life right now. It has been rainy and the temperature is a lot cooler then normal. It's been in the 60's and lower 70's for the past few days but I definitely don't mind it at all. It's much better then the horrible humidity that us on the east coast normally deal with in the summertime.

Cameryn has been in an especially lovey-dovey mood lately. She is always coming up to me and hugging me or kissing my hand or placing her hands on my cheeks and saying "I love you so much, Mama". I love it!! She can be such a little sweet heart sometimes. She also will grab my hand and hug it and kiss it if she can't reach my face. Of course she tries to do the same things to Luke but I'm pretty sure he doesn't appreciate it at all. He'll give her a goodnight kiss after we have said family prayer at night but he gets really upset when she is clobbering him with hugs and kisses and trying to hold his hand while bending his arm backwards. Though of course she doesn't know that she is hurting him and gets her feelings hurt when I tell her to stop. Poor sweet girl.

Luke is finally getting more bottom teeth. He has had four teeth on top and two on bottom for months now. Though he is starting to bite again I'm assuming because of the new teeth. He has to test them out and make sure they hurt just as much as the other ones do. And they definitely do. He thinks it's funny to lift up my shirt and bite my belly. A trick which he started doing on his daddy and since Mike didn't stop him from doing it and just laughed and said ow, he now does it to me too. I have to admit though it is funny when I see his little face and how happy he gets while doing it. He looks at you and just laughs and laughs.

I am working today at my friends golf course. I work up in their Pro Shop one day a week for 6-7 hours and I'm allowed to bring my kids so I couldn't pass it up. Though sometimes I wish I could leave them with someone while I work just to have a break. Occasionally my mom will watch Cameryn for me so that I only have to keep an eye on Luke. Plus Mike comes after work and picks them both up so that I have 2 hours (or more depending on when he leaves work) all to my self!! It is wonderful!! Hopefully one of these days I'll be able to leave Luke with someone too. Though it probably won't be until next summer. The golf course isn't open year round of course so I won't be working when the weather gets really cold and snowy.

Sorry this post is so boring. I felt like writing something though.

Birthday Boy

Even though Luke's birthday was July 25th, we didn't get a chance to celebrate it until after I got home from Utah. This past Saturday we had some of our friends and family come over to help us celebrate Luke turning one.

I can't believe that he is already one. I don't remember Cameryn's first year going by as quickly as Luke's has. Maybe it's because he is my second born and since I have two kids now it feels like it's going by so much quicker. We always seem so busy that I guess I feel that I didn't get to enjoy all the moments with Luke as a tiny baby that I did with Cameryn. Time is just flying by now and I wish that it would just slow down some.

I really do enjoy this age though. It is so easy to make Luke laugh!! And he has the cutest little grin, where he smiles real big and his little nose wrinkles up. He is crawling everywhere and climbing on anything that he can get his knee up on. He loves to climb into laundry baskets and throw all the clean clothes out. He also loves to be chased up the stairs even though he is still rather slow on them. He has to stop on every step and turn around and look to make sure you are still there "chasing" him. Of course now that he can do more things, he is getting hurt more too. He's a tough little man though and stops crying about 10 seconds after you pick him up.

He was pretty good at his one year check up too. He only needed one shot and was really only crying because the nurses had to hold his legs. As soon as they let go, he stopped crying and I hadn't even picked him up yet. Though he did also cry while we were weighing him and I had to put him on the scale and the nurse (gasp) looked at him!!!!! He still is quite the mamma's boy so he's not too keen on letting other people hold him (or touch him or I guess sometimes look at him) but he's not like that all the time thankfully. He does unfortunately have a little rash on his chest and neck as a result of the chicken pox vaccine but hopefully it won't last too long.

He still is only babbling and saying "mama" and "dada" and other things like that. Though Cameryn talks so much that I don't really mind Luke not talking too much yet. He doesn't really show any interest in walking either which makes me happy but he can still get into everything already so it really wouldn't make much difference if he did. Luke is the kind of child that is pretty happy (relatively speaking) just doing what he can do already. He is happy crawling and climbing, standing and babbling at me. Mike and I are his favorite things to climb over and on. He really only gets frustrated when he's playing with some toy or book and it's not cooperating with what he thinks it should do.

I love both of my children so much and I am so thankful that I have them both. I feel very lucky to be able to stay home with them everyday and that I have a very supportive husband as well. I am also very thankful that we live near most of our family, though I definitely still miss my sisters and their families. We all had so much fun together and Cameryn just LOVED to play with her cousins. I know she misses them too. Her birthday is coming up soon and I can't believe she is going to be three!!! I think I'll probably be saying that at every one of their birthdays though. It's so cliche but kids really do grow up so quickly.

I had wanted to do a montage of Luke's first year to post with this but I haven't had time yet. I will hopefully soon but here is a short one from Saturday with him opening present a present and eating cake.

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Family vacation photos

It took me a while to put all these pictures together. I had to mess with the songs, the order of the pictures, the effects, the length, etc. It also takes a lot of time to download all the pictures in the first place. So I hope you all enjoy looking at my vacation with all my wonderful family.

It's about 10 minutes long but really worth it (at least I think so).

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Adjusting to normal life

Every night since I've been back, I've woken up in the middle of the night with Luke and I have no idea where I am. The first night I was so confused, I couldn't find Luke's room which is just silly since there are three bedrooms upstairs and I had just walked out of mine (I also think that I was still mostly asleep). I walked into my room again and thought that I was at my sister Lindsey's house and had walked into her and Zak's room. I quietly walked back out and shut the door. Finally I got close to Luke's door to see that it had "LUKE" spelled out in wooden letters and realized, "hey, I'm at my house."

Now when I wake up with Luke, I have to sit up in bed first until my brain catches up and I remember that I'm in my house again. It's very weird since I didn't have that sort of problem while at either of my sister's houses or the hotel.

So back to my vacation (I'll try to keep it shorter this time):

July 21, 2007

Mike caught the morning flight from the Dallas/Fort Worth airport into Salt Lake and my mom and I drove down to get him bringing only Luke with us. We figured Cameryn would have more fun playing with her cousins. Mike and I picked up our rental car (an awesome red Jetta that some guy tried to get us to trade for his rental car- hehe. I was like, "no thanks, we like the Jetta") and drove back to the hotel so Mike could shower and change clothes since he had worn those clothes for 2 days now.

We met up with all my family plus our best friends from Indiana, Devon, Brenda, Gina and Heidi , we all go way back. We went to the Tree House Museum in Ogden, Utah. It was really cool but I was only there for a little while. Everyone else had been there for a long time before me, Mike, my mom and Luke got there. Heidi has a really good post all about the Museum here.

After we left the museum we all decided to go swimming at the hotels. Gina, Heidi, their kids and their parents came with Mike and I to our hotel to swim. Everyone else went to my parents hotel. We couldn't find any of Cameryn's swimming suits though so we had her wear Luke's and he just wore a swimming diaper. I think she looks rather cute, don't you?

That night we had a really fun bar-b-que at Lindsey's house and just hung around and talked. Luke just loved sitting in this really cute little kid lawn chair. He ate and ate and swung his little legs. So cute!!

Much later that night a bunch of us went to see a late showing of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It was me, Heidi, Gina, Jessica, Lindsey, Zak, Andrew and Ezra. There were a ton of really funny previews for movies that I now can't wait to go see. (Not that I really ever get to go see movies anyways) It was fun to have just adults around and NO children for a little while. The movie was really good also.

July 22, 2007

Nothing much happened as it was Sunday. Heidi had to go home but it was really fun seeing her and finally getting to meet her adorable daughter, Sierra. Most of the day we hung out at Lindsey's house and ate dinner there again. Here's Luke begging a popsicle off of Kathryn.


July 23, 2007

Monday was Jessica's 30th birthday so while the rest of us went to Timpanogos Cave for a hike, she stayed home with Belle and Tristyn to get ready.

The hike up to the caves was long and hot but it was fun. We had to pay to go into the caves but if I was going to hike all the way up with all those kids then I wanted to see the caves too. Mike and I took turns carrying Luke in a baby back pack and the rest of the kids walked most of the way. The little two year olds were carried some times but none more than Cameryn. She must really think she is a Princess because she walked behind me and screamed and cried and threw herself around so I would pick her up. This of course made me not want to pick her up even more. (also, outta no where she started crying for candy, weird) My dad, Mike and my brothers took turns carrying her up the mountain. Brenda, Gina and her son Liam were also there on the hike. Gina wrote about it here and here also.

Here is Gina, Liam and my mom on the hike up and the other picture is (left to right) Penny, Emerald and Cameryn all peeking over the edge on the way down.

The caves were a nice cool treat after that hot hike in the sun. Of course it would have helped if we had all brought more water. We ran out and were all soooooooooo thirsty on the way down.

When we got home we went to Jessica's birthday party at a really fun park and she got to blow out 30 candles!! It was a busy day.


July 24, 2007

We didn't do much this day either but relax and hang out a bit, but we needed it.

July 25, 2007

Luke turned the big ONE!!! Unfortunately he also started getting his molars in that day and he had a 100 degree fever. Poor baby!! We went to the This is the Place Heritage Park in the morning and had a really nice time. Cameryn was so excited to go on a pony ride and then Mike let her go on it again. Luke was a tad grumpy but it was understandable. They had a petting zoo and all these different buildings that were origianlly built by the pioneers. It was alot of fun.

We got our family pictures taken later that day and it seemed about to rain almost the whole time. After the pictures Mike and I invited Mary to come out to dinner with us at the Outback.

July 26, 2007

This was another relaxing day and we all went swimming at my parents hotel pool. It was alot of fun.

July 27, 2007


Lindsey and her family got sealed in the Salt Lake Temple this day. It was such a beautiful and special day for them. They were all so happy. All the kids were playing in the Temple grounds and picking flowers (until we told them to stop) and we took lots of pictures. I think Cameryn thought that the Temple was a Princess castle too. She was so sad that she couldn't go in.

We went to Liberty Park in Salt Lake City afterwards and had food and played and all the siblings reminiced about the good lod times. It was such a perfect day and a nice end to a WONDERFUL week!! Mike, Mom, Dad, Andrew, Ezra, Kathryn and Devon all went home the next morning. I was sad to see them go but glad to get to spend one more week with my sisters.

I'll get to the last week later. It definitly wasn't as busy of a week so it will be a much shorter post. I'm still working on my picture montage so that'll be up later as well.

Vacation time

July 14, 2007

Me, Cameryn and Luke all flew out to Utah on two relatively uneventful flights (we had a layover in Texas) which I am extremely grateful for. They were definitely tired and thankful to be off the plane when we finally landed in Utah though. My mom, Kathryn, Devon and sister Mary came to the airport to meet me. They helped me get my luggage and then we waited for my sister Jessica to pick us up. Poor Luke was so exhausted that he went down for bed soon after we arrived at Jessica's house. Cameryn was already very excited to play with her cousins and my sister Lindsey and her kids showed up to play also. We didn't get the kids to be until very late. Cameryn fell fast asleep once in bed though because with the time change it was after midnight for her.

July 15, 2007

Nothing much happened today as it was Sunday. We went to church and took naps. Later when Lindsey and her family got back from their church, they all came over and we had dinner and played and talked together. It is always to much fun to get together and talk. I love seeing my sisters and their husbands!! We always have a great time.

July 16, 2007

We all went over to Lindsey's house and the kids played in the back yard. L & J filled up a ton of water balloons for the kids to throw in the front yard. I gave a few to Luke to play with and everytime they would pop he would burst into tears. It was so cute and a little bit funny (okay, a lot funny).

July 17th and 18th, 2007

Cameryn, Emerald and Yzabelle all played dress ups (of course in Princess dresses) in the morning and then my mom came over around 12:00 and her and I drove up to Rexsburg, Idaho to BYU-Idaho (which I will always call Ricks) to pick up Ezra from college. It was such a pretty drive and we talked the whole way. I of course had to bring Luke with me but Jessica watched Cameryn for me because she definitely would have more fun there then driving for 3 hours and walking around the campus forever. It was so good to see Ezra again and I could tell that he was really happy there and that he had had a really fun time at college. He introduced us to some of his friends and we went out to Applebee's for lunch.

After we ate we walked around the campus. I went to Ricks from 1998-2000 when it was only a 2 year college. They made it a 4 year college a few years ago and it has grown so much since I was there. There is a ton of construction going on, a few more buildings and a lot more housing. They are even almost done building a temple there. It is so beautiful too. You can see it way up on this hill as soon as you drive off the exit into Rexsburg. How lucky for all those students to have a temple right there for their use.

It was really great to be there again. I loved going to college there and have so many wonderful memories of there. It was great to see all the buildings, dorms, apartments, and other random places that I had wonderful times at when I went to school there. So many memories just flooded me and it was good to reminisce. It would have been more fun to have my old roommates there to talk about it all with but it was funny to tell all my stories about specific places that we would pass to my mom and Ezra. We went to my old dorm room and then to the house that I lived in my second year. We passed all the apartment buildings where me and my roommates knew guys from because of course most of the people we knew where males (hehe). Ahhhh, good times!!

We spent the night at a friend from Maryland's place. I got a horrible nights sleep though and Luke woke up super early. I didn't want him to wake up anyone in the apartment so I took him on a walk around campus again. I ended up walking with him for about 2 1/2 hours. I was hungry and tired when I got back but I had a really nice walk too. It made me miss college days being at Ricks but I am still happy with my life now (most of the time- I miss the days of no responsibility). The drive back was uneventful but nice.

July 19, 2007

We went to the Hill Air Force Base Museum. The kids had a blast looking at all the old planes and they had this fun room with lots of things for all the kids to play with and look at that had to do with airplanes and space travel. They had a video about the Wright brothers, pictures to color, different computer simulations, Devon tried on a flight suit and they had a cockpit from an airplane that all the kids could play in. They also had some thing that astromauts use in space that walks on the moon. We spent a really long time in therebut unfortunately we lost my mom. Lindsey and I looked everywhere for her but couldn't find her. Later when we finally found each other, she told us that she had been looking everywhere for us too. Poor mom had even been outside in the 100 degree heat walking everywhere looking for us.

Later me, my mom, Ezra, Kathryn and Devon had to go to the Airport to pick up my best friend, Heidi, and her daughter, Sierra, from the airport. We decided to go visit my younger sister, Mary in the meantime. It was a nice but very brief visit.

After our short visit, we went to walk around in Salt Lake City and ended up in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. We went all the way to the top floor where there were some water fountains and Cameryn and Luke had alot of fun playing in them.

July 20, 2007

Friday, Mike, my dad and my brother Andrew were all supposed to fly in (on two separate flights of course). Unfortunately, Mike missed his connecting flight out of Texas and couldn't come until Saturday morning. I was pretty upset after being so excited to see my husband after a week but it was nice to have Andrew and my dad there too.

Even though Mike wasn't there, me and my kids still checked into our hotel that we booked for that week when my whole family was going to be in Utah. Mary drove us there and helped me to bring in all my stuff.

Well that's all I'm going to write for now. I'm working on a photo montage thing to show all my pictures of family and friends. I miss them already!!

Quick Note

I haven't posted anything in over 3 weeks because I was on vacation out west visiting my family and friends but I plan on having something up hopefully later today or tomorrow.

Bonks, bruises and surgery!!

My poor little boy has a black eye (almost). He was trying to climb over my legs while I was cutting Cameryn's long fingernails and toenails and smashed his face into a hard toy on the floor. It's not too noticeable yet but I had to document it anyways.

I also wanted to write that he will be having his eye surgery on September 13th. He had an appointment with his eye doctor last week and she said that he was ready for surgery (finally). His measurements (how far his eyes cross, etc.) are the same from his last appointment but his eyes are crossing more and more. She wants to do it soon so he'll have the best possible chance of developing a normal depth perception and so that he won't develop other vision issues.

I'm not too nervous about it yet but I'm sure I'll get worse as it gets closer. Right now I'm just grateful that I finally have a date set. I feel bad for my little man though. I hate to see him hurting and I just pray that he won't be too bad after the surgery. The doctor said that most parents say that their child was fine the same day of surgery so I'm praying for the best. I also hate that I can't feed him before the surgery. Hopefully they won't make him go too long without food cause my boy loves to eat (anything).

He'll be put under general anaesthesia and the surgery will only take about an hour so it's a quick procedure. I'm not really scared about him going under even though his Doctor said that's the part that worries most parents. I think it's because I've been under anaesthesia so I'm not really scared of it. Though I was a lot older then Luke.

Just keep my baby in your prayers please.

Thirsty much?

This is my silly little boy after a rainstorm. He discovered water in Cameryn's Baby stroller tray thing. It was so funny that I just had to run all the way back upstairs and get my camera to take pictures. I took that one of Cameryn too just because she looked so cute standing amongst our tomato plants.

I have been so busy trying to get myself, my kids and my house ready for us to leave for vacation. I want to have me house really clean because I'll be gone for 3 weeks and I don't want to come home to a messy house. Me, Cameryn and Luke are all leaving this Saturday, July 14th and aren't coming home until August 4th. My husband will be flying out to meet us on July 20th and staying until July 28th though I wish it were longer.

I can't wait to leave but I'm really nervous about flying by myself with two kids. We do get to fly first class though!!! My father-in-law let us use his Air miles and so it was an automatic first class ticket, wohoo!!

Anyways, back to my preparation.... they are going horribly. Luke has suddenly decided to be Velcro Boy again and not let me get anything done. I made a list today of things to do, things to pack and things I need to buy before I leave and that was pretty much all I did that didn't involve children. I did clean my fridge yesterday though so that's good. All I have left is three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a living room and vacuuming. (Oh is that all)

I'm trying not to obsess though. If I don't get to it all, Mike will just have to do it (hahaha).

New "things"

While writing out my post from yesterday, I got an idea and I decided to change some of my 8 things. I had such a hard time coming up with those first 8, but now I've realized that I actually do have a few more interesting things about me. So I am replacing three of those things with new ones.

New #5. I mentioned this in my last post but I HATE CLOWNS!!! They totally freak me out. I hate when I'm anywhere there is a clown and one looks at me... AHHHHHHHH.. don't look at me.... is it coming over... oh my gosh what a freak... is it going to try to interact or (heaven forbid) talk to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I also hate people at theme parks that are in a full body costume or even just the make up. Like at the Paramount's King's Dominion park in Virginia there are people that dress up like characters from Star Trek. MORE FREAKS!!! I DO NOT WANT MY PICTURE WITH YOU!! And please please please don't come up and try to talk to me like you are really the character that you are portraying. I mean seriously, these people really make me nervous and uncomfortable. Even (or especially) the ones dressed up like the cartoon characters and the Disney characters. I guess I'll be in trouble if we ever take Cameryn to Disney Land because she LOVES the Princesses!!

New #6. I am SUPER SUPER SUPER competitive. I don't think people realize this though because I'm usually really good at hiding it. I get seriously angry and upset when I lose at anything. I'm not too horrible if/when I lose while playing a sport because I'm not expecting to always be the best. But I would still get really mad in high school while running if someone who I always beat would suddenly beat me. It was usually only someone from my own team too. Oh I would get so mad!!! I was also so competitive in my weight training classes. The teachers would post from each class all the people and how much they lifted for each thing like squats, bench press, etc. I would always make sure that I was the strongest girl in all of the classes and I usually was except for maybe once or twice. I especially worked hard to make sure that no one beat my times on the rowing machine, the mile and other activities like that. Now, playing board games and other group activities like that, WATCH OUT!!! I hate losing there too. It's really ridiculous how I obsess about things like this, but as I said, most people (I think) don't know this about me because I don't want people to think I'm a sore loser or something which I am not. I just really like to win.

New #8. Jessica and Gina both mentioned this one in their comments to me and I never even thought of this "talent", or whatever it is, until then. I do have lots of funny voices and I'm pretty good at imitating accents and things like that. My brother, Andrew, and I have this really funny voice that we do and it just cracks everyone up. Of course it's hard to convey over a blog but we call it our "euhhh" voice. Now only family members will actually know how to pronounce that word so sorry to anyone else who might actually be reading this. We (Andrew and I) always answer each others phone calls with that voice too; "Euhhh, hello?" (I know Jessica will laugh reading that one) My college roommate, Tara, and I used to do accents all the time too. We even rented a video camera and taped ourselves doing accents and being stupid. Yes, I know that is dumb but it was really fun when we were doing it.

Well those are some different, more interesting things about myself that I wish I would have included in my original "8 Things". Oh well, you know them now.

Cameryn

I've been having a lot of fun with my little girl this summer. She is so silly and is developing the funniest imagination. I have so many stories from this past week that I'm not sure how to tell them all. Sorry if this post will seem to jump here and there but that's how my little girl is too to I guess it makes sense.

I'll start with these pictures here:


As I've said before, she loves to play with her Mr. Potato Head. Well, she started putting the face pieces on her own face to be funny. She started with the ears (which looks really silly but I didn't get a picture of that) and now loves to do all the different mouths. I just had to get pictures of them. I was only going to take one picture but Cameryn kept putting in a different mouth and saying "Get this one mommy" so I of course obliged.

When Cameryn wakes up in the morning she always calls to me from the top of our stairs to tell me she's awake (even though I already knew since I almost always hear her door open) and then she makes her way down the steps. She is usually carrying an assortment of things from her room; like her blanket, a book, a stuffed animal and maybe her Princess pillow. Well, one of the mornings last week I heard the door open and her call out "Hello out there! Oh I hope nobody answers." In case you aren't sure why that would be funny or cute, I'll tell you that she was quoting from Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. I cracked up!! I mean the first words out of her mouth is from Pooh. I just wonder what was going through her little mind when she was doing that.

Speaking of rooms, sleeping and waking up. I can't count how many times I've found Cameryn sleeping in weird places in the middle of the night. Just to name a few:

- Mike went upstairs to take a shower after we put the kids to bed and found Cameryn falling asleep on a big red bouncy ball in our bedroom. I was cleaning the kitchen and he was in the basement and neither of us heard her get out of bed (I said I ALMOST always hear her door open).

- I went to check on her one night before I went to bed and she was asleep on her floor flat on her stomach, perpendicular to her bed. I wanted to take a picture but didn't, dang!

- Luke woke up for a nighttime feeding and I went out into the hallway to go to his room and I found Cameryn asleep on the floor again in her doorway. This one has happened a few times that I find her asleep in the hallway.

- Last Sunday Mike was up sick most of the night and was asleep on the couch. Well, somehow Cameryn got out of bed and into bed with me without me hearing her and was asleep on Mike's pillow.

What a silly, funny girl!!

This past Saturday was a busy day for the Shipley's. At 10:30 am, we all went up to the Library to see a special visitor that Cameryn was really excited to meet. Winnie the Pooh was going to visit the library!! Well, they had the kids sit on this carpet and they played the intro song to the Pooh cartoons while all the kids got bells, shakers, cymbals, and other noise makers to play along with the song then Pooh came out. Cameryn was so excited to see him but as soon as it was her turn to take a picture with him, she was scared to death and wouldn't stand there for anything. I told her I would stand there with her but that was still barely enough to get a picture with her and Pooh. It's okay though, she is only 2 and I really wasn't expecting her to run up and hug him or something.

To tell the truth, I hate people in costumes and masks; and yes I hate clowns too. It totally freaks me out. Whenever I go to any theme park or anything like that I carefully avoid eye contact with anyone dressed up as some character just in case they think that I might want to talk to them or get my picture with them because I DON'T!! (I should have put that for one of my 8 things... hmmmmm)

To continue on our busy Saturday; after that we came home for Luke to take a nap and Cameryn to play. After lunch we all went to the pool for awhile. The kids were so excited that Daddy was at the pool with us because usually he is working when we go. Cameryn even got in the deep water with him and would "jump" to him from the sides of the pool (when I say jump, I mean he would hold her hands and she would carefully fall into his arms). I got in with Luke and we had a great time in the water as a family. Cameryn is so skinny though that she gets cold pretty quickly in the water and it had just rained so it wasn't as warm as it usually is. Her lips were starting to turn slightly blue and she was shivering but was having so much fun with Daddy that she just kept saying that she wanted to jump in again. When I told her she was turning blue she looked at her arms and legs and said to her daddy "I'm all blue. (pause) I want to jump from the steps again."

I finally got her out and we got in the warm shower for awhile to warm her little body up. I went to the snack bar and got everyone a snack and then after a little bit more time in the water we headed home.

But Cameryn's day didn't end there. Mike's parents wanted to take her out to dinner with them so they came and picked her up. They ate out and then Cameryn requested that they take her back to their house so she could play with the toys and of course, being grandparents, they did. She always has a lot of fun playing at their house so it wasn't surprising that she wanted to go there. Later, Robin (Mike's mom) told me that on the drive back to our house she just talked and talked and talked, which isn't surprising either; my little girl loves to talk.

She got home and we quickly got her to bed. She was out like a light after her long, fun filled day. I checked on her before I went to bed and she was sleeping in a semi normal position so I knew she was tired.

I love my little Princess!!