Mimi Turns FOUR!

Waffles and a Tyrannosaurs cake were her choice.
Me:"Do you mean like waffles that we mix and cook or the kind at the store?"
Mimi:"No, the kind from the freezer!"
Me:"You bet!"

Since dinner was a snap, I focused on the cake. Here's my attempt...hmmm...maybe I should have focused on something else. But since most of it was made with one hand (the other holding Baby C), it's not so bad. In this picture Mimi is pointing out his 'hypothesis'. (If you care to know, let me explain, there is no part of the T-rex called the 'hypothesis', it's simply a word that she learned on the the pbs kids show Dinosaur Train and she thinks it's the blue part of her favorite dinosaur named Buddy. This is also the dinosaur that she named Baby C after. Anytime someone asks what our baby is named, she interrupts us and says Baby C's name is Buddy.)

She got lots of great presents, all things she loves, but by popular demand, here she is with her new camera! I had a fisher-price camera built to withstand a clumsy child's hands when I was little, but it had 110 film, her camera is digital!

Here she is taking a picture of her favorite subject Buddy!

He was on the wall for our pin-the-tail-on-the-dinosaur game (remember my fill-in-the-blank birthday party idea? It works for dinosaurs too!)

Here's Buddy in all his glory!

ipod

I never bothered setting the pass-code on my ipod, so the other day Mimi set it for me-trouble.

I went to Best Buy to have them help me and they just laughed and said "what ninja did this to you? Won't she just tell you what she set it for?"

Me:"She's four, when I asked her what numbers she pressed, she said 'I pressed a lot of them 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7...' and ran away" The geek sqad was laughing pretty hard.
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Mimi:"Look! Strawberries, Blueberries, and... Greenberries!"
This box doesn't have the blueberries, but you get the idea.
No photos for a while-broken camera again!

books

I've never been one to nest when I'm about to have a baby. (And considering that I was not even dilated at 41 weeks tells me that my body wasn't even ready to have the baby.) So I'm not a nester, that would explain why I was setting up the room for Baby C today, when he's already 2 months old! While I was carrying book after book out of the guest room that would soon be his I thought to myself: "Man! We have a lot of books!" and what was the last book I carried out? This one:
hmmm...

Fort

Mimi, after I put the roof on the fort:"It's a clubhouse and now the storm can come and I can stay in it!"

computer sharing

Mimi (tired of not having a turn on the computer):"Can you please stop clicking on things that aren't my favorite?!"
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Parker when I was reading Frog and Toad to him when he was like 4 or 5 years old:"Why are you still reading this?"
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In other news, now that my mom is gone:( my house will be a mess for the next 18 months or so. We miss you Grandma!

A good big brother.

A goofy big sister.

Fill in the blank birthday party

Finally a friend-birthday-party for Indiana, I'm such a chicken. I kept putting it off until I found this idea on the internet about how to make a great party, first pick a theme and then fill in the blank.

Theme=Star Wars

1)Hot Potato

Hot _____
Hot Death Star

2)Pin the tail on the donkey

Pin the ___ on the ______
Pin the Light saber on the Jedi


3)Stepping stones relay race
Stepping ____ relay race
Stepping Millennium Falcon relay race.


Jump, balance,
climb,
tunnel,

kick the Death Star into the goal.

4)_____ Challenge course
Jedi Challenge course

11 lbs. 4 oz.=90 percentile

Baby C at one month:

Apparently that one-day episode of not eating did not hinder his growth.

Hiaku about lack of photos

Now everyone well
Back to blogging until, ugh
Camera broken
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but if you need a photo and quote to fill your Gibby need this week check out my sister's blog--check out baby C's smile!

Haiku about the lack of an update

Several viruses
infecting all the Gibby's
their computer too

snow

so far, so good,

and why not build a snow shark?

New Wall Paper

Swiped this off the internet
I laugh every time I see it

Oprah

As I got Mimi all dressed for Church today, I wished for tiny Dr. Martens to complete her 1990's outfit. Ah, plaid flannel...

Thanks for the awesome dress, Sonya.

Anyone else in the mood to watch My So-Called Life?
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Indiana:"Do you want to go on Oprah?"
Me:"No, I'm not famous"
Indiana:"But you're good to us."
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Indiana, frustrated that Mimi isn't playing nicely anymore:"She doesn't want to laughing any more!"