Dani LOVES Minions

For Christmas Michaela received a copy of the movie Despicable Me from... my Dad? (I'm pretty sure this was a "Thanks Papa!" gift). :)

Anyway, the point of this story is that Dani has adopted this as her FAVORITE movie ever.  As in, any time she sees the case she pulls it out and tries to get us to put it in the DVD player.  If that fails, she will walk around the house looking at the cover chanting, "Guu, guu, guu..." (as in Gru, one of the main characters).

Here's a little video of her reaction to the movie starting.  This happens every time we start Despicable Me for her, and it is nothing short of hilarious each and every time!

Catching Up...

The past few weeks I've been battling a stomach bug.  Nothing major, just enough to make me feel sick a lot and let's be honest, when you're not feeling well catching up on blogging isn't your #1 priority.

Anyway, I'm back to normal now and am catching up on life.  First priority: laundry (because if that mountain had fallen over I would have lost both kids for at least a week). Second priority: clean house.  Posting will happen after that, but with being sick on and off for the past couple weeks there's not much interesting to share anyway...

Gymnastiks Birthday Party!

Dani finished up all her birthday celebrations with a party at Gymnastiks Unlimited.  This is where Michaela has her weekly gymnastic class and each week Dani is constantly trying to take off to join the big kids (classes start @ 18 mo.).

Because she is so active, and because I didn't want to make her party into a big hassle that we couldn't enjoy (okay, that I couldn't enjoy) I decided to do a gymnastics party for Dani's first birthday.  A bit unorthodox for a 1 year old, I know, but the perfect party for our 1 year old. :)

I unfortunately didn't get pictures of all our friends that day, I had to put my camera down so I wouldn't hit Dani in the head every time I picked her up while we made our way around the gym.  Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate!!!

Making Waffles

We were blessed to have some our of friends little girls (who we LOVE) come visit the other weekend.  It was an interesting couple of days adjusting to 4 little girls between the ages of 1 and 5, but it was so much fun!!! 

I just posted my review today with SIMPLE and just had to share these extra photos of Michaela & Lili using our Learning Tower when making waffles.  Every time I made food that weekend I had two little helpers right up at the counter with me.  I think Waffle breakfast and Pizza dinners were their favorites to help with. :)

 Can't you just see how excited they were? I'm not sure Micaela could smile any harder.  :)

 They both took turns adding ingredients and then stirring the waffle batter.  Such great helpers and big sisters!