Dance Party

OK, blog readers. Few of you as there are this was one of my favorite memories of 2009. When we first started planning Lawson's 2nd birthday party I was thinking along the lines of a fireman party. We live within 200 yards of the neighborhood fire department and Lawson's interest in fire trucks has grown over the past year. However, Wade had a different plan all together (as you can imagine). That began our grand plans for a dance party. Lawson loves music and instruments and yes, dancing.
We decided early on that the basic party invitation wasn't going to do. Given our obvious era for early rap we decided to rewrite Vanilla Ice's, Ice Ice Baby. Below is what we came up with:

Let's stop! Celebrate, no dissin
Jax is back with his brand new addition,
Lawson! Gotta b-day in December,
Twelve twelve every year, It's easy to remember
Throw down! Honky tonk it's a party
Sunday the 6th at 4 it gets started
Cake! Balloons, & juice boxes,
Don't come late cause we'll all be rockin...

No Dairy Ice Cream at da Lombard's, da Lombard's
No Dairy Ice Cream at da Lombard's, da Lombard's


So, we invited the cousins to the house and told them to dress up as a rapper, boy band member, or rocker. The result was hilarious. We had a name that tune game, a kiddy mosh pit, and called it Lawson's Double Dip Dance Party. We called it Double Dip because everything that was served could be dipped in one of several dipping sauces. It was a blast and the kids loved.

We ended our time with Lawson's favorite all time song, We Will Rock You by Queen. He loved...so, we loved it.

What the "H"?

Jax has always been quite the "helper". He wants to help with everything. If I'm cooking, he wants to cook. If I'm cleaning, he wants to clean. If Wade's mowing the lawn, he wants to do the same. I think this is a good thing in the long run. For now, it's a bit overwhelming. If I thought my kids could do these tasks, believe me, I would be running quite the sweat shop at my house. I would also be having more kids. To the contrary, they usually just slow down the process.

This particular day I was working on making Harley's bow holder. I had seen them for sale but thought I could make one for much cheaper. Jax, of course, asked if he could help. I said "yes" as usual. He did a great job and the result was spectacular.

Sherry's Magic

Sherry is our uber-amazing babysitter we stumbled upon a few months ago. She's the kind of babysitter that makes you question whether she's better with your kids than you are. When Sherry keeps the kids we always return home to a cleaner house than we left. Some how our kids seem smarter and more polite, our laundry is miraculously folded neatly, and the house smells like soap.
We've recently found out she has yet another amazing gift. She's a photographer. She's taken several shots of the kids so we thought we would share a few of them.

Playing Catch-Up

With the onslot of Facebook and Twitter and various other social media outlets I'm afraid we've let our Blog go. We were embarrassed to see that our last post was Halloween of last year. So, we're ready to pick up where we left off. Our lives have moved on but our blog hasn't. We hope to spend the next couple of weeks getting everyone caught up. We'll be looking back at the last 5 months and reliving the fun times and memories of our lives. We hope you enjoy...we did.