Our Princess turns 3!

Waking up as a three-year-old

We were lucky to have Sam home the entire week, so Annabelle was able to open a couple of gifts first thing.

Gift from neighbor in Spokane.
How we miss you Nancy.

She couldn't wait to get it on, and sing with her Princess Sing-A-Long

 After a nice song and dance we headed into New York to the Central Park Zoo

Waiting for the train

More singing, she is singing "happy birthday to me", to Hudson.

Polar Bear
Probably her favorite animal at the zoo

Net in the children's zoo, probably her favorite thing at the zoo.
Hudson enjoyed it too, finally out of the backpack and able to move.

Taking a walk through Central Park
the little man is asleep

Enjoying NYC pretzel and a juice

Her turn for a nap, fell asleep in my arms as we were walking
at 30 Rock

Back at home we enjoyed some pizza while watching Tangled (one of her gifts) before ripping into the rest of them and eating cake.

The gifts, see a theme here?

Ready to return the favor and rip some of them open for his sister

Baby Belle from Oma and Opa
Yes we are back in our Cinerella dress

Princess Barbies!!!!
Daddy is the best

Her Belle dress from Tiffany
Could not get any cuter

Cake time

My Sleeping Beauty

May 2011

With May came more visitors, my best friend Tiffany and her daughter Jordyn.  They were only able to spend a few days, but we had a good time relaxing and catching up.  We also had one more friend Annie, come down from Boston to join in the fun.

Tiffany and Jordyn with library frog

Tiffany and Annie doing the princess puzzle Tiffany got for Annabelle
It took some time, but they got it done  Annabelle is able to do it by herself now.

For the most part we stuck close to home, but on their last day before heading to the airport we visited the Bronx Zoo.

Three kiddos ready to roll at zoo

Comparing hands

Bug Carousel

Best Friends

 The following weekend the library had one of their fundraisers the Frog Frolic, happy to support our great library we took part by eating, crafting, and playing.

First fishing lesson

At the bubble station
Buckets and Buckets of bubbles
She did not want to leave

Inside a bubble

Face Painting

My Mother's Day was perfect.  After running in a 5k race that morning I relaxed at home with my babies, went out for icecream, followed by a wonderful dinner cooked by Sam.

Hudson and Annabelle out playing
(Yes she is in the same outfit as the day before)

Set up for dinner

On the go

Annbelle with the handprint flowers we made for Grandma and Oma

My camera had been on the fritz, since a huge repair company is here in Connecticut we decided to take a drive and see a bit of the state.  The day brought us to Dinosaur State Park, where we had a picninc lunch and walked the trails.

Exploring the park

Walking with Daddy

Ananbelle- the one thing she couldn't
wait to do since we had arrived

We ended the month with a couple of celebrations  Hudson's first birthday (a separate post soon) and our seventh wedding anniversary.

And because there is always more, here are other pictures from our life in May.

Watching Mommy workout makes him tired

In their fort

Two of Daddy's favorite things

Hudson's new sandbox, before the sand

Our Little Man turns One

It has now been a month, but Hudson along with the rest of us survived his first year.  Not a big celebration by any means, but we had a fun time anyway.

Waking up as a one-year-old

Helping make Huddy's cake

The before

Having fun with balloons

Dinner
(so glad we were able to eat outside)

Did I say I was glad we ate outside?

Present time!  Put all the gifts in his Cars tent (his gift from Oma and Opa)

Opening gifts, spent a lot of this time telling Annabelle to let him do it.
Good thing her birthday is just 9 days away.

Train made by and from family friend Jerry Wahl. 
He gave it to us wrapped before the move, was so excited to finally open it.

Let him eat cake!

The after