birthday fun!!

happy birthday safina! what a fun day!!!!! we went to a party for safina at build-a-bear this morning and then went back to her house for pizza and cake. it was the kids' first time at build-a-bear - they had a blast!! malloy named her bear joey and picked a cinderella princess dress for her.  rex named his fuzzy and picked a luke skywalker costume for his. they LOVE their bears!!  

ready for the party! 

filling her bear

filling his bear

bathing their bears

buddies! 

Mean mommy

Tonight at dinner I told malloy that she was being rude because she was staring at people.  She replied "you're the only mommy who says 'that's rude'. " I said "oh yeah? What do other mommy's do?"  She replies, "they say 'you can do it' ". And so it begins. ..

reunited and it feels so good!

this morning, we packed up, said goodbye to grandma, and headed back to buffalo! the kids were pretty good! malloy LOVES color by numbers right now and spent the first hour coloring them. it's awesome that she can read the colors and do the whole picture on her own!!! my big girl!! she ate her sandwich and then fell asleep. rex stayed awake the whole time!! he's a stinker. we got home and waited for daddy to get home!!! the kids were very excited to see him (so was i!!!!!) he had to do some work for a bit and then we went out to brewpub for dinner and yotality for dessert. it was nice to be back together!!!  when we were pulling into our driveway, rex said "i don't wanna sleep here tonight. i want to sleep at grandma's." i guess he had fun while we were away!!! 

adding all of his money from roro to his bank (safety first??) 

tart yogurt! 

finally caught up!

we played at grandma's and did some arts and crafts this morning and then headed out to find some merry-go-rounds to ride! none of them opened until noon - didn't know that before we left! - so we went to friendly's for lunch and ice cream first. yum! we said goodbye to grandpa don (he had to head out on the road for work) and went back to the carousel. we rode it 3 times! rex was apprehensive at first and was clutching the pole tightly. he grunted at me "i'm having a hard time with this!" my poor little control freak!!! he loosened up a little bit after a while! malloy had a blast!! after the park, we went to roro's for a little bit, did some karaoke and some art, then we were on our way to aunt amy's for one last swim! we went back to grandma's for dinner and then bed! we're headed back to buffalo in the morning! 

making bracelets

trying to find a merry-go-round to ride!

BIG sugary drinks! 

july 6th

we had a picnic today with grandma tappy, grandpa gary, aunt norma, aunt kari and bella! the kids had a great time with the family! rex loved swinging with grandma tappy!!! malloy had a blast hunting for fairies with bella and aunt norma. such a fun day! it was HOT so we went to aunt amy's for a swim with aunt kari, bella, grandma val, and grandpa don. it was another early bedtime (still didn't go to sleep until 8:30!!!) for the kids! 

our chocolate peanut butter cookie bars 

tea party! 

july 5th

we hung out and played games at grandma's in the morning. played all afternoon at roro's and then went swimming at aunt amy's before having an early bedtime!! 

lucky charms and cartoons

playing games

staying cool at roro's

karaoke 

playing with dewey

picking aunt amy's strawberries