High Five!

Dearest Logan,

You are now 5 years old. A whole hand full!

You weigh in at 41.25 pounds and 43.25 inches tall. That means that in the last year, you gained 4.75 pounds and grew 2.75 inches. You have finally come off of the under 25% for weight and have reached over 50% for both height and weight. You are growing boy!

You continue to make us laugh, daily. You say the cutest and craziest things. Some things make us scratch our heads, others make us roll our eyes and some make our face turn red!

You are going to preschool 3 days a week. You love to learn and show us what you have made each day. You adore your teachers and always introduce us to your friends at school. You worried about your birthday and if I would make it in time with cupcakes so that you could celebrate with your buddies. (I did make it in time with cupcakes that everyone loved from the local Mars bakery, ha)

You love Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) and any other kind of action figure type toys. You like to build legos, play with cars and toy guns.

1. What is your favorite color? Green
2. What is your favorite toy? TMNT
3. What is your favorite fruit? Apples
4. What is your favorite TV show? Turtle's
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Cheese sticks
6. What is your favorite outfit? TMNT shirt
7. What is your favorite game? Minecraft
8. What is your favorite snack? Popcorn
9. What is your favorite animal? Elephant
10. What is your favorite song? Everything is Awesome (from the Lego movie)
11. What is your favorite book? Blue's Clues
12. Who is your best friend? Dylan and Jack
13. What is your favorite cereal? Cheerios
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play ball
15. What is your favorite drink? Orange Juice
16. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? My Blue Blankie
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Chocolate Chip Waffles
19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Pizza
20. What would you wish for if you were granted any 3 wishes? A toy, would like to play ball outside everyday, go to New York City someday! and one more wish: like to meet Evan from Evantube HD!

Bonus Question: What do you want to be when you grow up?  A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle


We love you to the moon and back, little man. Stop growing up so fast, please!

Frozen in the heat of summer

After our camping night, we decided to surprise our girls with a trip to meet their favorite princesses! It was a secret until we were on our way.

Elsa and Anna are the premiere princesses in our house and the houses of our friends. Charlie watches frozen a few times a week and plays with her toys everyday.

First up was getting tattoo's. Charlie loved her sparkly colorful snowflake.

Next up was coloring pages and other crafts. Charlie wanted to color ever page they had! She loves to color and even tried taking a stack of pages with us for home. She is a stinker.

It was hot and the girls were getting cranky and hungry. I ran into panera to get them all a chocolate chip cookie and we brought water with us. We thought ahead! It helped while we were waiting in the long line to go in and see Anna and Elsa.

While waiting, we saw Olaf. Charlie loved waiving from afar but she wanted nothing to do with getting close or taking pictures with him. Lily loved him. The other Lily, not so much. Steph had to hold her to get a picture. 

Soon enough it was our turn to see the princesses. The look on Charlie's face was priceless. Worth every penny spent, worth the time standing in the heat and worth hearing her whine that she was so hungry! Her little life was made.

Her smile, her holding their hands...it is all so adorable. I love it. I love her and being her Mom. I love our friends and that we get to do things like this together. It was a great weekend of camping and princess surprises!