50 Weeks

Nikki, Tyler & Leah Visit

Megan, Allen & Gavin had us, Chrissi, & Misty over for dinner while Nikki, Tyler & Leah were in town. Leah & Brendan had a blast playing together. Leah is almost 2 and Brendan just turned 3. Katelyn even played some as well.

Winter Birthday Party

We celebrated all of the winter birthdays in the family this evening. Brendan enjoyed getting some more presents and eating more train cake.
The Barbatos gave some awesome Thomas the train stuff - sunglasses, card games, a talking Thomas engine and the biggest hit of the evening - a Thomas watercolor paint book.
He absolutely loved painting the engines!

And he was really good at it too! He had Mommy & Mamaw help some too. He was such a sweet boy to share.

Third time must be the charm, as he didn't have a complete meltdown when it came time for candles on the cake & singing. Daddy & GrandBob helped him blow out his candles.

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A Cute Little Piggy

Katelyn decided to help herself to some snacks this afternoon. It was almost empty, so I figured, "why not!".

A Train Party

Mamaw found this neat train store, Trains Galore, in Noblesville. They recently opened a party room. It was the perfect place for a three old in love with Thomas the Train! He was definitely surprised and very happy about the trains & track.

Just before we went to the train store, we stopped and got some balloons. He was excited that Thomas, James & Percy were coming to his party.
Katelyn enjoyed the room too.


Another train cake for the party.

Brendan invited four friends - Cormick (3), Joey (3), Ian (2) & Ryan (2). Ian's sister, Isabella (3) came as well as Joey's younger brother Jacob.

Everyone enjoyed pizza, except for Brendan. He was too busy playing trains. :)
After a mini meltdown over having Happy Birthday sung to him, we all enjoyed cake & ice cream.

What's wrong with this picture?

This is from 1/25/11. I had taken it on my cell phone and had forgotten about it!

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Look Mom!

No hands!


Katelyn took her first independent steps on 2/11/11. She's still only taking a few at a time...up to 4-5 steps, but it won't be long before she just takes off to keep up with her brother!

A Train Cake!

To continue with tradition, I made Brendan's birthday cake. Instead of a monkey cake this year, I made a train cake.

After I got the cake finished, we went to Uncle Rob & Aunt Jenny's house for pizza. Mamaw & GrandBob came over too. We ordered carry-out from Greek's Pizza in Fishers...yummy!

Baby Katelyn borrowed Baby Bobby's Bumbo chair

Baby Bobby was all smiles for his cousin's birthday
Yummy pizza & salad
Katelyn taking some steps!
Puzzles with GrandBob
Mommy, Brendan & the train cake
Brendan was tired/shy/scared about the whole singing Happy Birthday

But rallied to sample some cake
Sometimes hands are more efficient!

Happy 3rd Birthday Brendan!

We had some house showings this morning, so we ventured out to run errands as a family. We got Brendan's hair cut...he was very good about it even though he wasn't happy about it. Just sat quietly and "pouted". :) I much prefer this to tantrums! Then, we went to the Noblesville Petsmart and got 3 fish for Brendan's 3rd birthday. He really wanted pink fish, but the only pink fish they had were little tiny fish. We were afraid that we wouldn't be able to see them in the 55 gallon tank that's in our basement. So we got some hardy Zebra Danios. I think that Brendan is happy with them.

Once we got home, he got to open some presents from Bisia & Grampy as well as Mommy & Daddy.







This is the look that I got when I asked him to smile! He looks like he's almost in pain!