Story Time!

We love Story Time at the Library on Thursdays! We have a pretty great group of folks showing up each week and we have even made some playdates with some of the ladies we met there. 

This is Afton hanging on one of the awesome giant bean bags, waiting for Miss Emma.

Cherry Pies

Afton loves "helping" me in the kitchen. We made some cherry pies the other day, as you can see by Afton's face, her idea of helping consists mostly of tasting.

workin it in her own kitchen

Downton Stevey

 Afton decided steve should wear pearls today. Here he is doing his best Maggie Smith impression.

Putting out Fires

Today is the day! We are done with pacifiers in this house.....I Hope.

We went to target this morning to trade our fires for a special new toy. Afton picked a My Little Pony baby (that just so happens to have it's own pacifier). She then picked a different baby to leave her fires with. We said goodbye to the fires and had a great morning playing with our new little pony.

Then naptime came....and went. That girl screamed at me like never before. I can only imagine the scenes of abuse our neighbors are picturing. "MOOOOOOMMMM, I NEED THEM" "AHHH GET THEM BACK"

We gave up on the nap and came down to play and snack. After a bit I let her watch a show and BAM, she was out in 10 minutes. Unfortunately that was at 4:30. I am not looking forward to tonight. (Lucky for me I picked a night Sean will not be here to keep me sane.)

**update** she is finally sleeping at 10:15pm.

LIght Reading

I caught a few pictures of Afton doing some light reading.

In case you are wondering, Sean got this book from an old co-worker.

Reading the Odyssey with Dad.

She needed to look up the words she didn't know.

She insisted on reading the book before seeing the movie.

"smiling" in front of her clubhouse flower garden.

New Haircut~

Afton got her very first haircut today.  We have been building up to this day for about a week and went from shrieks of terror to acceptance. Upon walking into "Little Snips" she immediately said "Nope, I don't want them to cut my hair!!" She changed her mind when she saw the car she got to sit in and found out she would get a sucker after.

She took it very seriously

New Year

One of my new year's resolutions this year is to update this blog and keep it updated. While it may take me some time to get caught up to this point, I hope do eventually add some posts from the past year but I figured it is best to just start fresh!

So here is what we have been up to since my new camera arrived on Friday...

ZOO with CATHY!
Two of Afton's favorite things- the Zoo and Cathy! We went with the intention of seeing the penguin parade but apparently they can not let the penguins walk around in 65 degree heat. We enjoyed ourselves anyway and were lucky to be joined by the Nacs.

looking for that baby Rhino

This giraffe was about to charge

enjoying carrots with Zombie Girl on the way home.