Windy

Kinley loves her kite.  She asks to fly it any time she sees it in the garage.  It is in a constant state of tangled mess.  I do not oblige her.  Her daddy does.

It was way too cold for me.  Andy got it up for her, and then she took over.

She had it over the house. 

 And had to run to keep it from crashing on the roof.

Checking the mail

"Mess"

Sophie dumped the contents of her drawer all over the kitchen floor. I let her. It is the only time she stands up without holding on to something, and I get to cook dinner. Kinley decided to get in on the action. Can you guess which mess belongs to her?

Put me in coach

She's ready to play.

Stats

Sophie girl had her 1 year check up this morning.  I try to schedule these visits when Kinley is in school.  Today she caught on though.  She asked where we were going after I dropped her off.  I said to Sophie's check up.  "Is she getting shots?" with her hands covering her mouth.  "Yes, baby.  She is.  They keep her healthy."  "Will I get shots when I go for my four-year-old check up?" ... Sigh.  That ought to be fun.
Back to Sophie.
She weighed 19.8 lbs and was 29 inches long.  We had an exciting round of peek a boo while waiting for our turn and an entire snack cup full of bunnies.  Monday mornings at a doctor's office are no fun, but you couldn't tell it from Sophie girl.
This is the face she gave Dr. Youngblood when she turned on her otoscope (I think that's what the thing is called.)

I mean, I know I love her.   And you guys all love her.  But I'm pretty sure today Dr. Youngblood loved her too.  What better way to start your morning than this cutie's cheese face.  The doctor had to literally stop what she was doing to finish her fit of giggles.  It was ridiculously cute.
This picture is from last night.  She was apparently really excited to pose in front of her shelf full of birthday books.  Well it was full until Kinley stole the stack of Golden Books from the cube on the right side.  Those could be found here:

Kinley made them a little nook this afternoon and proceeded to "read" the books to Sophie.  And yes I would be the crazy lady that put a white sofa in the playroom.  So far so good though.  And it made it possible to add purple pillows for Kinley's aesthetic taste.

Seriously such sweetness.  Love these girls!  More photos of the last few weeks over on Picasa.

A Book Party

Our house is covered in toys.  We used to have a playroom upstairs with my sewing things and one downstairs in the keeping room.  After Christmas we rearranged all the rooms, and now all the toys belong in the one playroom.  It's out of control.  These two kiddos have at least one of every toy you could imagine.

With that in mind when I spotted this baby shower theme I decided despite the flack I would catch from our family members Sophie girl was having a Book Birthday Party.

It's also kind of nice because Kinley has given up every toy and outfit she ever owned to her sister.  It's amazing how quickly baby toys that have been tossed aside for months/years can become interesting again as soon as you have to pass them down to younger siblings.  This way both girls will have their very own libraries. You never really outgrow books.  

Sophie really loves books too.  

Since I decided months ago on the theme, I've been working here and there on all the preparations.  Which is good because nothing went quite as planned Friday and Saturday this week.  Including finding out at the last minute Publix would not sell me a smash cake for Sophie and a pretty nasty head, neck and back injury brought on by my refrigerator.  (I am seriously the world's biggest klutz.)  

I managed to pull together a cake out of supplies in my pantry.  I don't make cakes.  I can't frost them.  But Sophie girl had a cake.  With M&M's which I belatedly realized just might be a choking hazard.  Good times!

The cupcakes Publix did make with added Golden Book decorations.

 I even made cake pops with the leftover cake.  Andy and I made balloon animals the night before when all I could do was lay in bed after banging my head.

We had labels for the books, so Sophie will always know where each of her books came from.

Paper flowers and photo garland:

I almost couldn't do it.

I...CUT...UP...BOOKS...to make book worm favors.  At least they were the free Chick-fil-A kids meal ones that Sophie had already chewed on the corners of.  Still it was hard.

Book worms.

Okay photo overload.  Will be back with the Cake and Presents.

Let them eat Cake

And open presents.

She's really excited about reading.  :)

Blowing kisses to say thanks for all her gifts:

All ready for her cake.  Loves her balloons:

And her cake:

Really liked the M&M's

And was very upset when her Mama took them away:

But she quickly got back to business:

You want me to stop eating for photos!?!

Nope this is better.  Help eating the cake:

All that was left:

As if that weren't enough photos you can see more over here.

Thankfully we stuck with family for this party, and they don't mind catching me still in my pj's fifteen minutes pre-party...or having an S.O.S. pad thrown at them and told to scrub the sink...or tape and cupcake wrappers.  It was an insane, crazy, fun day.  Now to get ready to do it all over again in three weeks.