Stella Kate

I gave Stella rice cereal for the first time tonight. At her four month check-up our doctor said we could wait until 6 months to start baby foods because she was gaining weight just fine, so I thought since she's almost 6 months that I'd try out rice cereal tonight. She did great with it, ate everything I had in the bowl for her. Much better than any of the other kids ever did with baby food. Amelia would absolutely refuse baby cereal, even when it was mixed with fruit! Paul and Adeline did a little bit better with it, but I'd say Stella did the best so far!

I just love her little profile, so I had to share this picture

The first bite...

Paul needed his picture taken with Stella too!

Addie's Birthday Party

We had Adeline's 2nd birthday party last Saturday, we had a Cat in the Hat themed party, I kind of did just a basic Dr Seuss themed party, but focused on the Cat in the Hat because she loves "Cat in Hat" and "Fish".

I counted on Saturday the number of kids at her birthday party and we ended up with 17 kids, 3 months old to 13 years old, 18 if you include my cousin Courtney who is almost 17. It was busy, but all of the kids had a great time and enjoyed playing together!

I made most of the decorations myself including the cupcake toppers. Kevin's mom ordered the cupcakes from Cub Foods.

I cut pages out of old Dr Seuss books that Mary picked up at Savers for super cheap and I strung them on ribbon and made my own banners.

Party Guests.

Our friend Megan with her babies, Ryan and Kaelyn.

 Kaelyn is 9 days younger than Adeline, it's still hard to believe our babies are 2, I can still remember like yesterday that Megan, Kelly and I all found out we were pregnant and our due dates were all within a week of each other!

My Godson Jameson or as my kids call him Jaysmon,

he wouldn't look at me so I could take his picture!

Auntie Amber and cousin "Bock Hazel" 

Opening her gifts! 

We got her a fish aquarium for her bedroom, she's clearly excited about her new fish!

Trying out her new trike from Grandma Mary and Papa Ron

My mom made her Thing 2 shirt for her birthday party, it turned out so cute! Thanks mom!

Blowing out her candles!

The three musketeers....Pauly, Clare and Adeline

Paul says he's going to marry Clare when he gets older.
We'll see what happens! 

The birthday girl had a great birthday! Thank you to everyone who helped her celebrate and to those of you who remembered her with a card or a gift, she's a very lucky girl to have such wonderful people in her life!

Warning: picture overload!

You've been warned! This post is pretty picture heavy! Since it's been a while, I had quite a few pictures to post!

The kids got Pillow Pets for Valentine's Day from Grandma and Grandpa K. and were trying to take a nice picture of the 4 of them before church to send to Grandma Mary...notice who's missing?!

Amelia was home sick from school on Valentine's day, she was running a fever and had a sore throat, so she camped out on the living room floor for part of the day and watch movies.

Stella modeling one of my Stella Adelia & Co. headband sets!

Addie thought she needed to try it out too!

Enjoying our heart shaped homemade pizza on Valentine's Day!

I just love this picture!

She always tries to eat the lady bug on her play mat!

My cousin Britta and Addie at my Grandparents house Presidents weekend. This was the first time Addie has ever played outside in the winter!

Sledding!

Amelia and Addie sledding in Papa Dave's ice fishing sled!

All bundled up!

Zoo trip!

A few weeks ago, on the 12th of February we went to the MN Zoo with our friends Matt, Kelly, Logan and Rylee. We both have zoo memberships, which works great when you just want to make a quick little trip to the zoo! We were there for a few hours and the kids had a blast playing and seeing the sights together. There is still so much to see at the zoo in the winter too. Most people just assume that the zoo is closed in the winter, but you can see the whole indoor part of the zoo, you can also walk outdoors if you so desire or you can ride the monorail.

We love our zoo membership, before we had a membership when we'd go to the zoo we felt we'd have to stay for the entire day after spending the money on the admission fees. Now with our membership, we have it paid for basically in two visits, which makes it worth while. I would recommend a zoo membership to anyone with young children! They are running a special right now and if you purchase a membership and use my name as your referral, we'll both receive $5 in Zoo Bucks to spend anywhere at the zoo! I'm still spending Zoo Bucks from last year when we referred Matt and Kelly to the zoo. Check out this page for more info about obtaining your own zoo membership!

Now for the adorable pictures!

Paul and my Godson Logan...they are 6 weeks apart in age.

Addie, Logan and Paul watching the turtles

Addie and Rylee...Addie is 3 days older than Rylee. These two were so cute together chasing each other and having a good 'ol time together!

Stella taking it all in!

Addie ducking coming out of the tunnel by the flamingos, she's short enough to walk right through it, but all the bigger kids coming in and out were ducking, so did she!

Addie's first haircut!

Adeline got her first haircut on her 2nd birthday, thanks to my good friend Katie for making a house call and making sure her hair no longer had a tail before her birthday party!

Here is a before picture...this is the best I could find, I forgot to take one before her haircut.

Katie got her all situated on the island with a powdered sugar donut...whatever works right? Because all she wanted was for Katie to hold her, she sat so nice once she had her donut!

Much better! Nice and straight across the back and no more tail! 

Thanks Katie! You're the best!