My Baby is 2!

Amanda Karen is 2 years old! Her birthday was on May 17.


She helped make the cake. Jason and I had the genius idea to make an oreo cake, using the recipe on the cake mix for cake cookies to make 3 GIANT cookies, which became the layers of the cake.

Mandie's fave, DORA! I'm pretty proud of my frosting drawing skills.

And some presents. She got a dora doll and some little swimming bugs that you catch with a net, and Natalie made her a purse and Missy made her a rattle.

Friday at 2:15

My friend Erin just did a post on her blog where she listed everything that's on her mind right now, and it sounded like fun! So I'm going to do it and I'd like to encourage all you other bloggers to do the same.



It's Friday May 22 at 2:15 PM



1. Is Jason coming out of his office? I keep hearing what I think are his footsteps, and when he comes out I need to talk to him!

2. I got my financial aid letter today! I really really really get to go to school! I'm going full time starting tuesday!

3. Which means I should go buy my books today!

4. Natalie graduated from Elementary school today, they had a very cute little ceremony.

5. My daughter's going to be in middle school! Gah!

6. It's Manda's nap time, I should put her down.

7. Jen and Jasper and fam are coming this weekend!

8. And Jen's going to highlight my hair!

9. And I got my hair cut yesterday! It's all layery.

10. Oh hey if I'm going to go buy my books, I need to get going. Babysitting at 4.

ADVANCED, people

I just thought this was really funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxLG2wtE7TM&feature=player_embedded

Jumping off

Often when I'm sitting at the computer, Amanda will climb up on the bar stool next to me and say, "reaDY??" and make me catch her when she jumps to me. Here's a little video of one such incident. She is SERIOUSLY psyching herself up, it cracks me up!