The Sinclairs

Monday, May 14, 2012

Avery's 3rd Birthday, Mother's Day, My Birthday

We had an action packed weekend-Avery's Birthday, my birthday, and Mother's Day all within 2 days! Our weekend began with a Mom's run. Shaunna did it with me and it was her first 5k. I'm so proud of her. It was a lot of fun and a good way to get the blood flowing before Avery's big party. I found a chick to hang with and crossed the finish line at a not too shabby 26:38 (8:35 mile).
After the run, it was party time. Avery had the best third birthday. Wonderful food, wonderful friends and family. A huge thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate. Happy Birthday to my big girl!
That night after the party, our community had a jazz concert and picnic at the park. The music was great and we had a blast walking around and scoping out the over the top picnic themes. Avery also got her groove on. Such a talented little dancer :).
My family spent the night and we celebrated Mother's Day and my 29th?? birthday. We had a lovely lunch and spent some quality time together. What a great way to end the weekend!

Mom's Run

Shaunna and Cassie: Running Queens

Avery's 3rd Birthday-Bumble Bee Theme

Gourmet honey favors and bumble bee bubbles

Sweet Birthday Girl

Bumble Bee Coloring

Blowing bubbles for Daddy

Cassie and Shaunna

Neighbor Larry, Poppy, Boompa, Tim

Avery, Mommy, and Sitti

Aunt Carolyn and Uncle Peter

Jenni, Matt, Brandi, & Matt

Aunt Amy

Sitti, Amy, Poppy, Cassie, Avery, & Carlos

Grancy and Boompa

Our sweet neighbors

Emma & Elke (our Aaaamazing nanny)

Brandi, Salem, & Grancy

Cupcake Time

Salem and Boompa

Avery with her new friend Bella

Cousin Jamie

Aunt Carolyn and happy buddy

Salem, Sitti, and Aunt Genie

Avery curling Uncle Jimmy's hair

Picnic at the Park

Dancing Machine!

Mother's Day/Cassie's B-day

High Five Uncle Carlos

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Summer Visits and Pool Time

A few weeks ago our friends Summer and Jason came to town. They brought their sweet little man, Cato. This was the first time we got to meet him. Oh am I in love! He is a couple of months younger than Salem, but he has such a personality already. Summer and Jason are the best parents. What a beautiful happy family. Thank you guys for coming to visit! Miss you already!

Summer (the season ;) ) is officially here. The neighborhood swimming pools are open. We took the kids to swim last weekend. It was a gorgeous day and the pool down the street is really nice. Avery met a few friends and they played with pool toys. Salem hung out on the top step and splashed like crazy! He loved it.

Happy 11 months to little man! Sigh, you can stop growing up now... He has 6 teeth but is still not crawling. He can move fast backwards, though. We've given up on the crawling thing and are working on his walking. He thinks it's hilarious to follow Avery around- walking behind her with our help. She cracks up, too. It's really cute. Salem is picking up a lot more of his signs. He's got 'more', 'food', 'change', 'all clean', 'bath' and can wave bye. We're still working on 'please'. Hopefully, he'll pick it up soon. Gotta teach those manners early!

Avery is doing great. I can't believe she'll be two for only couple of weeks longer. She is really becoming a young lady. She is really into ballet and any other dancing. She loves cooking and having tea parties for her dolls and animals. Avery has graduated to telling us nighttime stories. She is hooked on dinosaur stories now. She makes up names for each color dinosaur and then tells us about their favorite foods and activities. It's great seeing her little imagination work.

Summer and Jason Visit