Playdate with Abigail

Thursday afternoon, we went over to the Huskey's house for a playdate. Taylor and Abigail played in the backyard on the slide and then we went inside and they played with a tea set and doll house. We had a wonderful time playing and the girls are so cute together.

We could only stay an hour because we had a dinner reservation with some friends to give the boys (Nathan and his best friend Mike) birthday presents. Dacia and I are the best wives ever and surprized the boys with tickets to Rodney Carrington for Sunday night. If you don't know, Rodney Carrington is a comedian and he had a show a few years ago called Rodney that was hilarious. Luckily my mom is coming in for the week, so she will be able to watch Taylor when we go to the show tomorrow night.

Yeah for the English language

Taylor is 16 months now and is really starting to talk. She's been saying a few words for several months, but is now really starting to pick up talking. She still babbles a lot and we just kind of nod and agree with what she is saying. She has said "mama", "dada", "more","dog", "BoBo"(our mini beagle), "duck" and a few other words here and there. She has recently learned please, juice, milk, up, down and can repeat almost any word you say to her. She knows a lot of her animals and their sounds. We, maybe I should say I, have taught her that the turtle says "love you". I don't know what a turtle really says, I don't think they say anything, so since they are my favorite, they say something sweet! It is so nice finally getting to really communicate with your child.

The Music of ABBA concert

ABBA ROCKS!!!!!!

Last night I went to my first concert in I don't even remember when! My friend April and I went to the House of Blues downtown and saw a tribute band to ABBA. If yall don't know who ABBA is, the musical and now movie Mamma Mia! is based off ABBA songs. The concert was a blast! The singers looked like the original ABBA group and the neatest part was that the original guitar player for ABBA is touring with this tribute band. I had never been to the House of Blues and it is pretty awesome. We made some new friends with some 'dancing queens' if you catch my drift. Watching the people was almost as fun as the concert. We sang and danced the entire time and it was sooooooo much fun.

The House of Blues

April and me before the concert started

Got to love the outfits!

The guy in the middle with the guitar is the original guitarist from ABBA

Taylor rocking her new House of Blues T-shirt

Our sweet friend Chloe's birthday party

We went to our wonderful friend Chloe's 2nd birthday party this afternoon. Her birthday party was in her backyard with fun little games set up for the kids to play, face painting that turned into hand painting and a super fun swingset with a slide. Taylor tried all the games, loved the bowling the best and the slide. She's too little to climb up by herself, so we kept having to put her at the top of the slide and hold her as she went down. I think her favorite part of the whole party was eating the cupcake. It was almost as messy as her own birthday party! Don't worry, I totally got a picture of it! We had a wonderful time at the party.

Happy 2nd birthday Chloe!!

Taylor playing ring toss.

Taylor playing bean bag toss.

Taylor getting her hand painted. She got a red heart on her right hand and a purple flower on her left hand.

Taylor chowing down on a scrumptious cupcake.

Taylor with her gift bag. She likes to carry bags around.

True confessions of a working mom

I have to confess that yesterday I was busy working at home, trying to get something to my boss and Taylor got away from me for a moment. Usually I have Taylor blocked in the living room with all her toys when I am working in my office, but I had let her play in my office with me this time. I turned my back to her to work on the computer and not even a minute later I heard her crying. There is no worse feeling then hearing your child crying and you don't know where they are. Luckily she was just in our bedroom and not up the stairs. She had tripped over a pillow and hit her cheek on the bed. She has a horrible little bruise on her cheek and I felt horrible for taking my eyes off her. I know I can't watch her every second of every day, but I should of been paying more attention to her. Thank God she is okay and it isn't worse.

Daddy's football game

Tonight Nathan's football game was early enough that Taylor and I could go cheer him on. It was nice to get out of the house and get some fresh air. Taylor took her Oregon State football and played with Coleman and Katherine Bales.

Nathan and Taylor getting ready for the game.

Taylor with Coleman and Katherine Bales.

Taylor and Coleman playing catch with the footballs.

Unloading the dishwasher

I opened the dishwasher to unload it, walked to the table and turned around and found this:

Then she proceeded to help me unload the dishes on the bottom row.