Mr. Egg Head (not about Brad this time!)

I found this growable egg head at Michael's and thought it would be fun for Aidan. Except it has been 3 weeks of her asking if it's time to cut his hair.

Yeah- she went to town and gave the egg a crew cut. It will grow back, that's what all hair dressers say...

Valentine's Day Tea Party

Sorry I haven't blogged for awhile. My laptop has been acting up and now it's just unusable, so I am using Brad's tonight.

I have to go back to February becuase we had a fantastic Valentine's Day and I need to give my friend Dina props for her AMAZING mother & daughter tea party. You'll see by the photos that Dina knows how to party! She is super creative and ambitious. It's very inspiring!

These are the Valentine treats that we made for some of Aidan's friends and the girls who came to the tea party.

There were 3 little tables set with pink satin table clothes, real china, linen napkins w/ a beaded napkin ring, doilies, fresh flowers, and edible place cards. The chairs were all wrapped with a pink tulle bow.

The mommy's tables were set similarly, but all in red with candles and red velvet boxes with our names on them.

The food was delicious and all done in a heart theme: heart scone sandwiches, heart mini quiches, heart cakes, etc...

Valentine's Day Dinner

Let's just talk about Aidan's oooey-gooey over the top Valentine's Day dress and coat. I found this dress for $3.99 at a children's second hand shop, then found the fuzzy heart coat at Goodwill 2 days before for $3.99. What awesome thrift store finds and they were too cute on her too!

After our tea party we visited Brad at the store, then headed home to decorate the house for our special dinner Brad was going to make us.

Brad went all out to make steak & shrimp with twice baked potatoes. Yum!

After dinner Aidan presented me with a trophy that she and Brad found for 'Mother of the Year'. Aidan was so proud and excited for me to get this. She was concerned that I wasn't carrying it with me to do what got me this award- the laundry. I haven't decided where I am going to keep this high honor, the laundry area or the kitchen? I definately didn't earn it with my work in the kitchen...easy mac is deceptively delicious though!

She dances like nobody's watching...

I still can't tell if we are totally wasting our money. We have signed Aidan up for dance class. It's a combination of tap, jazz, and ballet. It's only been 2 months, but despite her dainty fisique she isn't the most graceful of little girls and she's a total goofball. Last week she was screwing around, not listening to her teacher, and somehow she fell flat on her face. Those little tap shoes are slippery, she went forward on her toes too much and splat! She had quite the bruise and scrape on her chin.

Our teacher does some super cute activities with the girls. They dance with ballerina & princess dolls, act like caterpillers who turn into butterflies, and gallop on stick horses. It is fun to watch how cute the girls are.

This is a classic Aidan pose, doing exactly opposite of what she is supposed to be doing. At first I went all "Stage Mom" on her and tried to get her to practice durning the week, we even took video of one of her classes so we could help her. I went from zero to crazy in 10 seconds when I finally hooked the camera up to tv and got Aidan into her tap shoes. She did a shuffle for me, sat down and took her shoes off. UGH!!!! I freaked out, "Do you not want to go to dance class at all? Should I take your shoes back? Blah blah blah!" To which Aidan basically said, 'fine with me!' Luckily, I recovered quickly to realize that I was talking to a 3 year old.

Maybe someday she'll catch on...