Madeline's 3rd Birthday!

I can not believe my baby is 3 years old. I also can not believe I am grown up enough to have a 3 year old kid. Madeline's birthday party at Jon's parents house was so much fun. I don't think I've ever seen her so excited.




With Grandma Lippert

All the kids got to ride Oreo. I had a plan to get a picture of each kid on him, but that was quickly derailed when Jon had to leave to pick up pizza and Jonny decided he was hungry and I was helping kids to get on and off the pony. I just didn't have any more hands left! Here's Madeline with Liz.

The party was 22 kids and their accompanying parents, plus family of course. I took a ton of photos trying to get the kids to look at me and none of them would look at the camera while playing or eating...they were having too good of a time to pay any attention to me!

She wanted to wear her new Princess & the Frog dress as soon as we got home....

...and Jonny just went with the flow like he so easily does.

Monday morning...Wake up and Happy Birthday my sweet girl!

Making Tacos for her birthday dinner with Daddy...

Opening presents at home

All my tricks at getting a smile out of Jonny and 2:00 minutes in...finally the payoff.

The THUMB has been located.

Cincinnati Butterfly Show

We headed to the Butterfly Show again this year, one of my favorite Cincinnati events. I still can't believe how many butterflies there always are and how they just come land on you and you really get to see them upclose. This year I made sure to tell Madeline ahead of time that we can NOT touch their wings. I won't recount the massacre that happened last year - RIP class of 2009 butterflies. I sternly told her that if she touched their wings they wouldn't be able to fly and therefore get the food and water they need. She then said, "That's silly they could just walk to their food mama".

AJ Cohen Memorial Tournament

I'm finally getting around to uploading all these pictures. The tournament went well again this year and we are all excited for the 10th anniversary next year! Thanks for everyone's support!

New pics of the kiddies...

Trying to get a good photo of both kids is IMPOSSIBLE. Throw in a well-past-its-prime camera and bad lighting and it's BEYOND IMPOSSIBLE. Good thing they are so cute it just doesn't matter.

And the smiles begin...yeah!

Trip to the park with Meredith, Lola and Ruby. Madeline and Lola wouldn't sit still for a second they were so excited to see each other and running around so this honestly is the best shot I have of them!

The babies however, were more cooperative ;)

The week before Easter we got to painting eggs...

And this is how Jonny spent the time...sleeping adorably in the corner.