Aug 10

For Doug's Birthday this year Chloe made him one heck of a cake.  You can't tell but those are big heart cupcakes glued on top with icing.  Each heart had to be a different color.  It was awesome. 

The cake close up

Chloe and Doug dancing.

Making faces for the camera.

My little dancing machines.

Vermont July 2010

Chloe and I headed to Vermont this summer.  We had a great time.  Chloe just adores her cousins, Aunt and Uncle.  Reyna and family have moved to a new house and of course with a new house came a whole new mud pit.  OMgoodness did Chloe love the mud pit.  The kids dug and dug and filled it up with water it was great. 

One day Reyna set up the Slip-n-Slide.  Now I have to say that on a previous visit back when I Bridget was a toddler I did try to do the Slip-n-Slide with her.  You know show here how fun it was and what I learned was that somethings are just more fun/less painful when you are young and lighter, lol.  So this time Reyna and I left it to Bridget and Joe to show Chloe how things were done.  Chloe started copying Bridget who was posing before she jumped and saying things like "Queen of Horror" (yah we don't know where she got that).  The posing was hilarious.  Chloe adored the Slip-n-Slide.  I think we were both worried when she got a few helpful pushes that she might not be happy at the bottom but, Chloe being Chloe loved every minute of it.  The kids really had a great time together.

Random July Moments

This post is just a few random moments from July 2010.  I thought the above movie was hilarious.  Chloe loves being Doug's Kettle Bell. :)

This is just a cute movie of Chloe dancing before school. 

This picture is of Chloe in her 4th of July dress.  I just thought she looked adorable and of course a picture had to be taken.

Ballet

In July Chloe began taking dance classes.  She adores the classes.  At the library she is always asking me to look up ballet/dancing books for her.  Needless to say we have read many books about ballerinas.  She will have her first recital in December. 

Singing and Sliding

Chloe was cracking me up. I was in the other room doing something and next thing I hear is Chloe jamming out to Old McDonald and her ABC's. I

had to get a few videos. Enjoy.

I am having the worst time with this editor today. Ok so the last sentence is split and I can't move it, sorry. Below is what happens when it gets hot in TX and you have a perfectly good Bouncy House. :).

Pensacola - 2010

Chloe and I went to visit the Brachers in Pensacola in May.  We had a great time.  Chloe just adored the beach and the pool.  She had the best time.  I lucked out to get a ton of pictures of Chloe and I because Mrs. B loves taking pictures.  Wooo hooo.  I will let the pictures do most of the talking, :).  Ok can't get the text to move, it was at the top.  The above pictures are all of the beach.  Below: The pool.

Mrs B. Has been working on some pottery.  She is actually quite the artist, her dishes are now in local stores.  On Sunday she and her friend Theresa showed Chloe how to make some pottery.  Chloe had a great time.

And just when you thought it was impossible for us to pack in any more fun: We went to the park.

Projects

Some pictures from May.  Chloe and I were outside playing and we decided she would tell me a story and I would draw it for her.  Her story began with a train. Then there was a birthday cake. Then the train ate the birthday cake and turned into a Cake Train.  I thought it was pretty cool she could make all of that up.  Her imagination is growing by leaps and bounds these days.  We have all sorts of pretend scenarios. 

I don't know how I come up with stuff sometimes but, alas one rainy day I decided it was a "great" idea to make paper mache figures.  We blew up a balloon and covered it with strips of paper and while we were working on that Doug made a dog/horse (some sort of creature) out of coat hangers and we covered that as well.  Here you can see Chloe painting her creature.  I think this project might have gone more smoothly if Chloe were older.  Although she has enjoyed painting her projects.  So maybe it was a good idea, hummmmmm.