Emotional blackmail

Elyse: mommy give me a huggie
Me: one secind baby
Elyse: if you don't give me a hug I'm gonna get mad a make a mess and then your gonna get mad.

Well, alrighty then. 3 year old emotional blackmail back by 3 year old logic.

Elyse after huggie: mommy, you smell like strawberries, bananas, and blueberries.

Best compliment ;-)

Amaya's Butterfly Birthday

Amaya's birthday was over a month ago but I had so much fun planning the party I just had to share. I decided on a bright multicolored butterfly themed party. Perfect timing because everywhere I went butterflies were in full effect for spring. Overall, it was a great party, but I'm glad it's the last big party I have to plan....until sweet 16's.

Butterfly made from Amaya's footprints and poster paint

 I found this idea on Pintrest from http://karaspartyideas.blogspot.com/2011/09/sweet-butterfly-1st-birthday-party.html.

 A pretty picture of the favor table set up by my bff Siobhan and buddy Cindy.

Party favors-mini terracotta pots with wildflower seeds and dirt to make your own butterfly garden. Hand cut butterfly decoration with Easter colored sixlet bodies, and butterfly pinata

 Cake table. I never got a better picture of the table and all my hard work but there were butterfly shaped pb&j and nutella and jam sandwiches, chocolate covered pretzels made with a butterfly mold, cereal snack bags tied in the middle with pipe cleaners to look like butterflies, my butterfly cupcakes, and the very inexpensive BJ's butterfly sheet cake.

 My cute butterfly cupcakes. Super easy to make. I combined a bunch of ideas I found online and on Pintrest. The cupcakes were boxed cupcakes but I made the buttercream frosting from scratch. Ideas from here http://thepersingers.blogspot.com/2011/04/butterfly-cupcakes.html and here http://www.quixoticpixels.com/blog/2007/03/its-my-party/.

Now on to Elyse's princess party.  Have a lot of fun ideas for this one too, can't wait to share!

Switcheroo

Elyse's 4th birthday is coming up and ever since I started planning Amaya's 1st birthday in April she has been asking for a Mickey Mouse party for herself.  I convinced her to do a Mickey and Minnie party and I spent the better part of this week looking for ideas and making a pintrest board with all of the great ideas.  I had the party all planned out in my head and just needed to get my supplies. I decided I wanted to go to Hobby Lobby about 45 minutes away just to see what it was all about. I had a whole basket full of Minnie Mouse inspired things when the kid tells me she wants a Princess party...I blame the giant castle pinata. So of course she threw me off my game and I was totally scattered. Kinda disappointed because I was really looking forward to putting together this party...lucky I still have another kid who wouldn't mind a Minnie Mouse party.

EBay

I will be spending this evening putting this wonderful pile of unwanted and un-needed crap for sale on eBay. I hate how ling it takes to post stuff, I need to find a better system. At least I will have the DWTS finale to entertain me.

Mobility

Just realized there's a mobile app for Blogger. Probably should have realized that sooner...but it makes blogging so much easier :-)

Happy Easter

My mom is leaving me for 9 days..whaaaaaa. Just kidding. But seriously I am jealous. She's going to an all inclusive resort in Punta Cana, DR. While she's sipping Mai-tais on the beach, I'll be house sitting in NY, where the weather refuses to stay nice. I am looking forward to some nice quiet family fun with the hubs and the girls though. Hopefully they don't drive me too crazy...wishful thinking I'm sure.

I'm back!

Happy very late New Year ;-) This morning I woke up and realized that even though hubs has a cold, the kids have been healthy for at least a week. No coughing, sneezing, wheezing, puking, etc. Then the school nurse called to say Kayla was complaining about ear pain. Of course the doctor confirmed it's her 4th ear infection in 2 months. Poor thing missed the circus performing at her school today. Anyway, yesterday was Valentine's Day and although we didn't go anywhere I actually had a really nice evening at home. Elyse helped me whip up a nice romantic dinner with special treats for everyone ;-)

Elyse's hand and thumbprint Valentine's tree

Heart shaped meatballs ;-*

Yes, this is what Kayla looks like after a hard day at school...can you say CA-RAZY hair?

Picture perfect table, complete with "romantic" plastic wine glasses for all of us

Perfect way to end a day that started out with spilled milk in my car.