Helen Update

Helen is growing like a weed. She's now wearing 12-18 month clothes (she can still fit her 6-12 month clothes but just right). She's pulling up everywhere and has started to cruise a little. She and Carys were actually wrestling on the floor the other day and giggling. She's eating more table food and actually is sleeping through the night from 8:30PM to roughly 3:30AM. That's a BIG step for her and I'm most grateful.

Here she was just settling in for a snack of ribbon from big sisters gifts. It's not her favorite though. Her favorite snack lately is paper!

Dress Up Girl

Carys got lots of dress-up clothes and shoes from Mommy and Ya Ya. She was so cute when she opened some of them, she actually gasped. I wish I had a microphone and of course none of us had the camera ready. She still enjoys these and I'm sure there will come a time when a little princess wants to accompany me to the target for my weekly shopping.

Craft Table

I'm not really an entertainer so I thought this craft table would be great. It was for about 20 minutes. I was happy to see that the community center had a childs kitchen set for them to play with and some play mats. The mats were a hit too and they insisted on doing 3 year old stunts so the parents were forced to pay attention. Luckily they did come back to the craft table after some time and the party was only two hours long, whew!

Happy Birthday Carys!

Carys had a birthday party with friends on Saturday. They had a blast. She did get a fever during her party but she's holding up well here. Sorry for the long break. We'll have more birthday party pics tomorrow.



Special thanks to all friends and family who helped throw this party together in the final minutes (final 9 minutes to be exact) and who helped clean up. You know who you are (David, Nicole, Poppy, Mom, Tamra and everyone else). Thanks for helping Carys have a great party!

Behind Bars

Helen is happy that Poppy has come into her room to "release" her.