Thanksgiving Round Two

On our way to Grandma and Poppop Simon on Friday nigh we stopped at the great grandparents house to eat dinner. We met great-great grandma Simon. After we ate we headed up to Smartsville to get some cooking done.
Cali got to open her birthday presents.

It took them a minute to put the tricycle together

And then we got to cooking. Madi making some rice crispy treats




Cali stayed up 'til midnight!!!

On Saturday we headed back to the great grandparents for Thanksgiving dinner
Cali was still tired

We took some pictures

The kids had a tea party

We played some Slap Jack


We ate some prime rib

cleaned up and took a few more pictures.
Four Generations. It would have been 5 but Great Grandpa was passing some kidney stones.

It was a great weekend!

Thanksgiving

For those of you waiting on pictures from this weekend (Poppop Simon)
Here is just one. The rest will be posted later tonight

Bring on Christmas

Today we started putting up the Christmas decoration.
We did some outside lights and the trees.

Happy Thanksgiving 2009!

Nothing special going on at the Murray home. We are going to make some small finger foods and hangout.
So far we've done some Thanksgiving arts and craft.
Yesterday we went to the store to get supplies and Cali got mad because I would let her wear her pink slippers.

She loves wearing them

Yesterday her and I made the Turkey. Her feet are the body and her hands the feathers.
She loves to "glue"


Today her and Daddy made a tree



And the beautiful birthday gift from Aunt Zanne and Unkie Matt. We are so lucky to have such wonderful friends and family that give her tons of presents.


The tree and turkey are suppose to go on the same sheet of paper but I didn't get big paper to fit both.

I saw a little turkey
standing by a tree
He gobbled and he wobbled
and ran away from me
Oh turkey, turkey, turkey
Please come out and play
I promise I won't eat you
on Thanksgiving Day!

Not Happening.

I'm not going to be able to finish Cali's book this week. I realized that I am missing 4 months worth of pictures. I guess I never backed them up before I had my laptop reformatted, I contacted my old boss and he is going to check to see if he still has a copy of the ghosted image. Please keep your fingers crossed that he can recover the files, I'm missing November 08 through February 09! So I don't have any pictures from Cali's birthday party :( And the pictures on the blog are too small to print.
But here are some recent pictures.
Cali dancing with Okie

Dave working on my chalkboard for the kitchen

The finished product hanging on our pantry door, with a note he left before he went back to SD.

She looks like such a big girl

She wanted a picture with her baby

OMG!

My heart is full of joy. Having to replace every picture is to time consuming but it brings back great memories.
June 2008

Time flies by so fast and there are so many great memories made but not enough room in our little brains to remember all of them. I am so glad I started this blog. I can't wait for this book to be printed. Every mother should start a blog.

Busy

I'm am busy editing Cali's Blog Book. The purpose of this blog was to keep everyone updated and to be Cali's baby book, so now it is time to actually have this thing printed. Unfortunately I have to go edit each individual page and swap almost every photo, I have to swap the web image (smaller size) for the original (printable) image.
The book will probably end up being 250 pages and I'm only on page 40! So I won't be able to update the blog until I finish it. Sorry.
Here is a picture from this weekend.

Two Year Stats

Cali is 35.5 Inches tall and weighs 29.8lbs fully dressed.
The doctor was literally there for 2 minutes after we waited an hour and 45 minutes. We did not receive the attention that we did with our old doctor. I'm going to switch Cali to a different clinic. The doctor we saw last week was more attentive but because it's a clinic we see which ever doctor is available and I didn't like this one.
I know there is nothing wrong with Cali but it was ridiculous that he was only there for 2 minutes!!!
According to this chart, which our old doctor used, Cali is between the 75-90% for height and 75 percentile for weight.

Birthday Weekend

We started off the weekend by waiting outside for the Coxes and the ice-cream truck.

She is so cute. Every time she hears the ice-cream truck she yells "stop"

On Friday we got ready for the party and enjoyed sweet baby Levi and his cool parents.
At the birthday party we ate pork sandwiches, delicious baked beans and potato salad.
Then when the birthday girl woke up from her nap we opened presents



She got books, Yo Gabba Gabba toys, PJs, a baby doll, baby set, baby clothes, a bilingual play laptop, a camera, a coloring set...


We had to take a break to eat some cupcakes because she was too busy playing with the laptop and camera to open more presents.
She helped herself to some icing. Notice the laptop and camera next to her.




The Cox boys

The party ended soon after and Cali just enjoyed playing with are her new toys.
On Sunday, her actual birthday, Cali woke up at around 6am but because it was way too early for any of us to get up she went to sleep. When Daddy and I woke up at 8 Cali was still sleeping so we just laid in bed waiting for her to wake up. I was joking about letting Cali eat a cupcake for breakfast and right after I said that she wakes up and says "yeah," it was the funniest thing ever!
Getting ready to go out for lunch


Yummy mango smoothie

And after dinner she did have that birthday cupcake I joked about in bed.