Memorial Day

Paige was 4 months old.  This is our first family photo.  Oops.

Go Tribe!

We took Paige to her first Indians game in May.

 Let's just say pulling Sister's hair was way more fun then watching the game!

 Grandpa and Grandma C came too.  Definitely a Grandpa thing to instigate a blue tongue!

Maris loves Slider.  Meeting him was probably the highlight of her day.

 

Since it was a Kids Fun Day Sunday game, we were able to run the bases after the game.  We got to high five a few Tribe players and even Manny Acta, who actually pulled Maris aside and showed her how to touch home plate!

Memphis Kiddie Park

Cleveland has a wonderful miniature amusement park called Memphis Kiddie Park.  It opened in 1952.  Children of all ages are welcome but it really caters to the pre-school and school-age groups.  The Memphis Kiddie Park really is a wonderful asset to the Cleveland community.

Recently, Maris's playgroup held the annual group birthday party at the park.  Most of the boys have been before, but Maris was a newbie.

She took her first roller coaster ride.

This was not how she looked when she disembarked!  At least there were no tears.

Did some spinning - which was much more her speed.

Dizzy Jeeps

After the rides, the kids had cake.

Another Johnny masterpiece.

We tried to end the day with a group shot.  You would think as the kids got older the group shots would get easier!  (We have three other little friends not pictured here.)

I'm including, for reference, a picture from when they were all about 1 and the 2nd birthday party.

About 18 months old.

Two year olds!

Meet the Trucks

Maris is pretty neutral about her interests.  While she's had the usual princess, pink, and dress up obsessions, she's spent an equal amount of time obsessing about dinosaurs, trains, and construction equipment.  She loved our city's Meet the Trucks event.

 Testing out her firefighting capabilities.

 

 The city parks the "diggers" at a location right by our house.  I think she'd try to go play on them everyday if we let her.

  

Posing with the police dog.  Aren't police dogs usually German Shepard types?

 

That better be the only time we ever see you in the back of cop car, Young Lady.

Pinkalicious

Happy 3rd Birthday, Maris!

Maris was very clear that for her birthday she wanted a pink party.  PINK.  Further, she expressly stated that everything should be pink.  Food, drink, cake, decorations, and even the clothes we wore.  We did our best to accommodate her.  And it was a LOT of pink!

  On her actual birthday she got to use the birthday placemat and she chose a Pink Lemonade (of course) cupcake from Main Street Cupcakes.

 

Make a wish!

 

Opening presents from Mommy and Daddy.  It was a collection of Disney Princess stories.

Next up was party day.  This was where we really kicked it into high gear with the pink.  Read more here.

We had a hot dog bar, because, hot dogs are pink!

 

We also served Ambrosia Salad, potato and macaroni salad (both dyed pink), watermelon, jello jigglers, and cake (batter and frosting also dyed pink).

Everyone wore pink including some of our guests!

We love you, Maris and hope you enjoyed your Pinkalicious Third Birthday!

Royal Wedding

Maris was really into the whole Royal Wedding.  Okay, okay, it was me.  I was really into the Royal Wedding.  We DVRed the wedding, dressed up in fancy dresses, bought Raspberry Royale tea and found crumpets at our local grocery store.  It was a fun little "event" with my girl while the baby slept.

By far the best part of this whole royal wedding event was Maris running around Heinen's saying, "Mom, we need to buy tea and crumpets!!"  I wish I carried a video camera with me.

Opening Day

We have a holiday we celebrate every year in the first week of April.

Happy Opening Day!

Go Tribe!