puppet show and girls night

brady woke up sometime during the night and ended up in bed with me.  it's difficult to get up and showered when you awake entangled in a sleeping babe.  when i finally freed myself, he squirmed his little body over the edge of the bed.  so then i just waited and watched while he got closer and closer and closer and then i grabbed his leg as he was falling head first off the bed.  ; )  he was like a little sleeping inchworm.  see, these are the specifics i wonder of people that cosleep with mobile children.

brady was a little frightened by the situation and still really sleepy.  his cuddling has been out of control lately.

since abigail had a cousin sleepover, it was just mom and brady and me.  we went to the puppet place and met up with liza and all the kids.

while we were waiting, brady decided he was keen on crawling.  mom and i were just cracking up.  seriously so random.

the puppet show was peter rabbit and it was really cute.  the kids were all wonderfully behaved and it was a lot of fun.  abigail is temperamental about pictures... but i swear she only put on the frown for the picture.

cousin love

sister love

abigail was getting pretty whiny about wanting these angry bird graham crackers i wouldn't let her have at the time.  i started taking pictures of the mean faces she was giving me while she was complaining and once she saw i was taking pictures, it was a split second of silence followed by "cheeeeese!"

cheeeeeeese!

 i told her she couldn't have the angry bird crackers because we needed to eat lunch first.  but my parents' pantry is too tempting for me as well and i made kettle corn that we all shared.  very nutritious.

since brady's sleeping is so terrible lately (i'm nearly positive it's teething), i had to lay down with him to get him to nap.  which led to both of us napping in my bed for a few hours.  when we woke up, we all headed to walmart for some birthday shopping for abigail.  abigail picked out princess themed plates and napkins and a table cloth for her party.  abigail wanted every single thing we saw and it was great to see the things she was interested in/became easily bored with.  we lost track of time until mom said "oh my goodness carrie, it's almost 8!"  crap.  the plan was for me to be at lynell's at 8:30 and there was no way i was going to be able to finish my shopping, check out, get home, feed the kids, get them ready for bed, spend 30 minutes getting brady to fall asleep, and drive to lynell's house in less than two hours.  we quickly finished our shopping, i helped super fast at home with the kids and then ditched my mother with two grumpy kids, one being a baby that cries endlessly and refuses to sleep.  give me the dual mother of the year award and daughter of the year award.  my mother is a saint.  thank goodness for her.

i got to lynell's house and let myself [and a few cats] inside.  and then i sighed and smiled at this sweet sight.  so excited to meet little baby harper and so excited that lynell is a mom now!  warmed my heart.

we ate cheese cake and danced some irish jigs (lynell, want to email me that harper video?  i laugh just thinking about it) and talked about life.  so. much. fun.

lynell is an avid baker.  a true baking enthusiast as evidenced by her cake stand.

and then we took this little picture.  i got to be the photographer because i had the longest arms.

and then i came home and admired by little girl in her last moments of being three.  i kept looking at her like "when on earth did her legs get so long?!"

and when did she grow all of this hair?!

sometimes she just leaves me speechless.