Henry turns 2!

My sweet little man turned 2!  Where did the time go?  He's 32 lbs, only 3 lbs behind Lily!!  Henry is such a fun, cuddly, rough and tumble boy.  One minute he's hitting Lily over the head with a shoe, the next he's cuddling with me on the couch.  He loves to read books, play with cars, trucks, balls, or anything that makes lots of noise, color with his sister, go for walks, and sing.  He still has the best giggle ever and is so ticklish!  He's talking up a storm (almost full sentences now) and loves his passy and lamby.  Such a sweet boy.  We sure love our Henry!!

His special day started with a birthday balloon, of course!  When he wants something, he says "Henry's" instead of "mine".  So cute.  He's also starting to make the squishy face "cheese" for the camera...nice.

Saturday afternoon we had a small "dinosaur" birthday party for him.  Mom and half the Clarkes came (just Britt, Mika and Ashlynn), and our friends the Elsworths and Katzers.

Our scary Dinosaurs!!  (Lily, Mika and Henry)

We had pizza, cupcakes and a pinata!

Henry was so excited for cupcakes and sang happy birthday to himself!

(my friend Jill made his birthday shirt!)

Lots of fun boy toys...finally!

An awesome truck book from Nora.  He insisted on sleeping with it...

We got a dinosaur pinata!  Super fun!! No injuries either!!

Jack's the one that finally broke it open!  Yay!!  Candy!!

What a fun time ! Thanks to our friends and family for coming and helping make Henry's day special!!

A few days apart

MeMe and Poppa took Lily and her cousins Isobel and Emery to the Cabbage Patch Hospital in North Georgia before school started.  They were gone for three days.  While Lily was gone, Henry and I had so much fun! 

We went to Monkey Joes (a bouncy place)

He can almost climb up everything by himself now! Yay for me!  It's hard work hefting him up those things!!

He also discovered Lily's iPod touch...scrary he can almost use it correctly!  But after he wrote on it with a crayon, we decided maybe he's not quite old enough for it yet. 

My sweet boy, looking so grown up!!

Lily got a new cabbage patch baby from MeMe and Poppa!  She had a great time too; she got to sleep in a hotel, swim, eat out (which she claims we NEVER do) and do fun girl stuff!  Thanks for taking her, MeMe and Poppa!!

They also fed the "goats on the roof" in Helen, GA and brought Henry a t-shirt!  He would not take this off all day! 

Biddison's come to our house!

While the Biddison's were in Georgia, Andrew had a work meeting down in Florida.  So I had Em and Allie come and stay with us for a few days while he was gone.  It worked out perfectly!!!

We had a blast while they were here.  Mom came down and dropped them off Thursday.  The kids made cookies with Grandma!

 Allie was very sweet with Lily and she LOVED having her here; her favorite part was the slumber parties in her bed!

Henry got an awesome haircut from Emily

I love my awesome sistas!!

Britt and her family came down on Friday.  We had a great time swimming and playing with cousins!!

And of course, a little Ashlynn time...that's Lily and I holding her.  She's smiling and cooing now; sooo cute!

A quick MeMe visit

MeMe came up for a quick visit while Poppa was in Brazil for work.  It was Lily's last day of summer gymnastics!  This is the gym where she has her classes.

 She got a 1st place ribbon!!

 Doing a few tricks for the camera.  Henry and I have to stay upstairs and watch from the bleachers so it was fun to be on the floor on the last day to take some pictures. 

She's going to be in the all 4's class in the fall. I'm excited for her to learn some more advanced things. This class was 3-4 year olds and a lot of the kids were very young. It was mostly just following instructions and getting exposed to the equipment this time around...which is good for her first class, I guess.
We also went to the GA Sports Hall of Fame museum with MeMe.  We got a year membership with a Groupon, so it's a close, fun place to visit in the afternoon's when it's blazing hot outside!  There are footballs to throw, basketballs to shoot, a Nascar to ride in, and other fun things including these Georgia football players!!

Andrew's taught them both the cheer: "Goooo Dawgs!  Sick 'em.  Ruff Ruff!"

We sure love having MeMe here, even if it is only for 24 hours!!

Another day on the lake

Emily and Allie came to Georgia for a week to visit!  It was so fun having them here!!  On Monday, me and the kids went to Peachtree City to play and go on the boat.  Lily was brave enough to ride the tube with her cousins this time!  (I think it was because Allie was there!)

Mika

Henry watching the tubers...  Travis drove very slow, but I could still see Lily mouthing "mommy" with a very worried look on her face.  She didn't last very long, but I was very proud of her for trying.

 Our two blondies, watching the big kids.

During "swim breaks", my sweet sister Emily would swim with Henry.  He loved it! 

 She said he held his feet the entire time he was in the water!

American Idol in Charleston, SC

Some friends and I had a girls weekend in Charleston to go support Amanda in trying out for American Idol.  There was lots of lines, little sleep, and crazy people watching!

Monica Gleaton, me, Emily Elsworth, Maryanne Katzer and Amanda Blasche

Some of the line wating was in the dark...starting at 5am...and it was already hot and extremely muggy. 

 We finally got to the front of the line...about to go in to the big auditorium

The auditons were crazy and we all feel like Amanda didn't really even have a chance.  Her producer judge hardly even looked at her, she sang for about 15 seconds on the floor of the auditorium along with tons of other people singing at the same time.  We all think Amanda is gorgeous and an amazing singer...se la vi American Idol.   

We did have a great time hanging out with the girls and want to do it again sometime without all the American Idol drama.