Saturday, January 31, 2009

My 2nd Birthday Party - January 4, 2009

Today is the day I get to celebrate my 2nd birthday with my family!

Am I the most handsome 2 year old you've ever seen?
I better get dressed.  It's almost time for my celebration!
Mommy worked hard on making lots of favors.  I told her she could borrow a few of my favorite trucks to put them in.
Everybody got a little construction worker rubber ducky.
Mommy also made some cool candy bar wrappers.
Who can resist me....or chocolate?!?  : )
Here are the favor bags for the kids.
Check out my cool construction truck sign.
There were lots of trucks hanging all around.  It was awesome!
Here are the plates and napkins.  Pretty cool, huh?
This is where my birthday crew will sit.
All of my buddies will get a work apron and a construction hat to wear on site.
Here's my birthday DIRT!  I can't wait to DIG IN!

AWESOME!
Allow me to introduce some members of my crew.
This is A.J. 
Here's A.J.'s sister, Jeanie.
Here's my "morning sister", Emma.
Here's Chloe and Jeanie.

Here are 2 of my aunts....Brenda and Darlene.  They both like to smother me with juicy kisses!
Sharon, Clint, and Brandon helped me celebrate.

PopPop and Samantha shared some birthday smiles!

Here's my Great Pretty Granny.  She is alway the life of the party!

Here's Eva, one of my adorable girlfriends. 
(Don't tell my other girlfriends she was here, please!  I'll be in big trouble with them!)
Jeanie liked stacking my Pooh Bear blocks.
Everybody is starting to look hungry.

Finally....It's time to eat MY BIRTHDAY DIRT!!!!!
It was made locally at the Russell Construction Company.
It has gummy worms and everything!
DELICIOUS...
...AND MESSY!

Here are my Aunt Tina and Erik.  Aunt Tina takes really good care of me while 
Mommy goes to work.  We have a lot of fun together.

"MomMom" and "DaDa" look like they're just posing for a picture, but secretly I know they're just trying to get me to share my DIRT!


PopPop doesn't look too sure about eating worms!
Laura and Great Pretty Granny were having fun.
Chloe looks like she's ready to get to work!

Uncle Brian and Aunt Brenda were all smiles! 
I wonder if anyone told Eva that 'Birthday Dirt' tastes WAY better than blocks!
My cousins, Samantha and Sharon, were both born in January too!
Guess who came to my party!??!?!  : )

Check out this BIG RIG totally FILLED with cars!  AWESOME!

Emma gave me a birthday hug.
So did my Cousin Sean!

A.J. looks like he needs more chocolate!!

Everybody hide!!  The cops are here!!!

Looks like the Officer caught his Perp!

Oh, whew!!!!  It's just my Cousin Sean!!!  He must have heard there was DIRT!!


Here are a few more shots of Eva.


Here is my Aunt Christine and her daughter, Mini-Christine...I mean, Chloe!

The Pasquarello Family gave me some really cool bathtub toys!
The Pasquarellos are so fun to hang out with!
Sean and I decided to play together with my cool trucks.


There's always time for cheese curls!

Hey---has anyone seen my construction hat?


Birthday Smiles!
All this partying has made me very hungry.
Mmmmmm....birthday spaghetti!
Check out my Birthday Beard!!
Turning 2 was so much fun!

Thursday, January 29, 2009

My 2nd Birthday! - January 2, 2009

You'll never guess how old I turned today!!!
Here's a BIG hint!!!!
Mommy and Daddy took me to this really cool place called "Chuck E. Cheese".  My cousin, Sean and his Mommy (cousin Laura) met us there.  My Grandmom and PopPop came, too.  It was such a fun day!

Guess who I spotted right away?
BOB!!


It didn't take long for Sean and me to find Clifford!

Time for cupcakes!
I made a wish and the blew out my candle.
Time to get messy!

I am sooooo tired!  It's time to head home for a nap.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz....
When I woke up from my nap, I had birthday mail from my girlfriend, Abby.
She sent me a Phillies DVD.  I can't wait to watch it!
Time for my Birthday Bubbles!!
Did I just hear Mommy and Daddy say that I have one more surprise???
Check out my cool new tent and tunnel!
AWESOME!

I have just enough time to for a story before it's time for bed.
Daddy and I had story time in my tent!
WHAT A GREAT BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Sunday Smiles!

Check out this little slide show of my Sunday morning photo shoot!
 (It's less than 2 minutes long...hey, I'm worth it!)
I hope it makes you smile! : )
Mommy still has to get my 2nd birthday pictures together.
This is sort of a test drive to see if the slide show format will work.
Let us know!
video

Thursday, January 1, 2009

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! 2008

The big day is finally here!  
First order of business....find the Christmas bell.
If there is a bell on the lawn, we will know that Santa and his reindeer paid us a visit.
HERE IT IS!
Now...let's get this party started!
Here's our tree.   I love watching the lights.
Here's my new ornament. I LOVE construction trucks, so it's perfect!
SWEET!  Matchbox cars!  My favorite!
AWESOME!  Bob the Builder!  My Favorite!
WOW!  ELMO!  My favorite! 
(I sure do have a lot of favorites, don't I?)
Am I cool or what?
Look what Mommy got!
Time to check the stockings.
Mommy made Daddy and me t-shirts.  Here's Daddy's.  I'll bet you can guess what mine says!
Grandmom and PopPop always come over for Christmas breakfast.
Daddy made breakfast pizza.  It was sooooo yummy!
PopPop always calls me "Popeye."  Isn't this shirt perfect?
Check this out!  MORE TRUCKS!  YEA!!!!!
Hess trucks are the coolest.  I know you're supposed to keep them in the box, 
but I can't help myself.
My Great Pretty Granny and Great Pop stopped in for a visit.
Boys' Club
I guess Chickie wanted to be someone's present?!
This Christmas stuff is super tiring!!

Now that my nap is over, it's time to head over to Aunt Anne and Uncle Al's new house.
My cousins, Zach and Aubrey, were there.
It was the twins first Christmas! 
HO HO HO!
Mommy was really showing her holiday spirit!


Awwwwww!
Even more Awwwwwwwww!  : )
I have just enough time to hang up some of my new Cars ornaments before I go to bed.
My 2nd Christmas was amazing! : )

Hanging with Santa 2008


I got to hang out with Santa for a little while today.
I'm still not too sure about this guy despite all of the good things I hear about him.
Maybe next year he'll make me smile.
As for this year, I'm still a little shaky.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christmas Eve Breakfast 2008

One of my family's holiday traditions is to go out for breakfast on Christmas Eve.
PopPop and Grandmom treat all of their kids and their grandkids.

Guess what I had to eat?
A HUGE cup of WHIPPED CREAM!  
I can't get enough of this stuff!
(I can only get away with this stuff when my grandparents are around you know!)
After breakfast, I showed PopPop how to color.
Here is what the GREATEST POPPOP IN THE WORLD looks like.
Isn't he handsome?
Thank you for treating all of us to breakfast Grandmom and PopPop!

Winter Fun at Citizens Bank Park - Dec. 14, 2008

Today was so much fun!  We drove over to Philadelphia to visit the stadium where the
WORLD SERIES CHAMPION PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES
play!  We were hoping to see the World Series Trophy up close and personal.
Daddy and I told jokes while we waited in line.
LOOK!  There it is!!!!

I can hardly wait to get closer!
PHinally!  How cool is this?!
We were hoping to see the Philly Phanatic next, but we had a little time to waste.
We decided to play around in the empty seats. 


Hey!  Has anyone seen the Phanatic?
Here he is!!!
Check out this huge tree that was just outside of the park. 

Go Phils!  Do it again next year!
It's been a long day...
Here's the Christmas card Mommy created with some of the pictures we took today!
Seasons greeting PHrom our PHamily to yours! : )

A BIG BOY BED!!

Today was a very big day.  Mommy and Daddy decided it was time for me to start sleeping in a big boy bed!
Daddy started the process but...
...I felt like I had to give him a little bit of guidance.
I handled all of the power tool work.
Almost done!  All we need is the mattress.

Hmmm...it looks like all my rowdy friends are ready for me!
Soooo comfy!
SWAK!
I LOVE my new big boy bed!