The Story Of Us

As a book lover the moment D was born.. even before that I was planning all the books we were going to read, first me to him then us together.. I have all the Harry Potter books on my shelf waiting for D to turn seven.. eight so that we can read them together.. follow each book with the movie. Of course we started with the simpler Goodnight Moon, Chika Chika Boom Boom and similar. M's boss at the time sent us a basket full of books.. :) Since then we have read countless books.. some over and over again.. and some not so much. We make regular trips to the library and when we run out of new books we reread the old.. A few weeks ago we reread I Love You Stinky Face and while I always loved this book it got very little love from D until now. He was now old enough to understand it's meaning.. After reading it he let out an enormous bugger filled sneeze and when I called him bugger face he asked me.. 'but you still love me right?' What was interesting was not just th...

Our next day was spent at the Legoland in Winter Haven about an hour outside of Orlando. The park opens around 10am so while we still had to be up bright and early it wasn't as much of a rush. It also closed early.. around 6pm. I had been to the California Legoland many many years ago so I was excited to check out the Florida version. Growing up my brother and I lived for Lego's.. and I wanted to get D a bit more excited about playing with them too.. they haven't been is favorite toy. So here's hoping! We started with a really cute welcome family picture.. It was a chilly day.. and our first ride was Island in the Sky.. it takes you 150 feet high and gives you a 360 degree tour of the park.. up that high and near the water it was bbrr.. Next stop was the carousel.. remember how I loved Disney's baby friendliness.. yea well Legoland not so much. Infants must be wearing shoes on all rides.. thank god we had H's shoes with us.. they may take them o...

Let me just start by saying thank you for all your comments on last week's post. In case no one has told you yet today... you are all awesome! We woke as early as we possibly could, I surprised D with a brand new Mickey t-shirt. We were staying at the Marriott, they had a pretty decent complimentary breakfast and shuttle service to the Magic Kingdom. We opted to take our own car to the park instead. Here we are, the gate We missed the opening ceremony by some minutes.. oh well maybe next time. We hurried down main street and to Cinderella's Castle. We started the day in Adventureland. The Swiss Family Treehouse was temporarily closed so our first ride of the day was Aladdin's Flying Carpet, what better way to start the day? I loved that there were so many things H could ride on with us. Next up the Jungle Cruise, cute with a great guide, quirk, funny and so perfectly in character! H decided to take a nap during the Pirates of the Caribbean, I secret...

Here we are.. twenty fifteen! I am ready.. 2014 was a bit exhausting.. and I am tired. We started our year off with a bang.. when little  H  came into our world.              and his big brother celebrate a birthday too..  D turned four ! Most of the year was spent working on house projects. The  living room , our  command center  and  the pantry  and we started work on the basement and we planned to give our formal dinning room a new function. And it is so near completion.. I can hardly wait! There were no long trips or exotic travels this year :(  Instead the year was full of day trips to the  zoo ,  Philadelphia ,  apple picking  and the  Jersey Shore .  and a few weekend getaway's  Upstate New York ,  Great Wolf Lodge  and  Niagara Falls .. including a trip a Lion Safari . Get my post directly in you inbox with...

1. What is your favorite color? Pink 2. What is your favorite toy? Train Set 3. What is your favorite fruit? Strawberry 4. What is your favorite food? Pizza 5. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? Strawberry 7. What is your favorite tv show? Paw Patrol 8. What is your favorite animal? Mouse 9. What is your favorite song? ABC song 10. What is your favorite book? Magic Tree House Books 11. Who is your best friend? Aiden C 12. What is your favorite game? Uno 13. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Walking with Dada Dadi (grandparents) 14. What do you want to be when you grow up? Teacher 15. What is your favorite thing to do with mummy? Going in the silver car 16. What is your favorite thing to do with baba? Dancing 17. What is your favorite thing to do with Hasan? Sleep 18. What makes you feel sad?   Cry 19. What makes you feel happy? Minnie 20. What was your favorite thing about your birthday? Cake Get my post directly in you inbo...

In June our little D turned four.. 4! We can hardly believe it.. I was really excited to plan his fourth birthday.. we didn't have parties for the last two and this was the first year he actually understood the concept of a birthday.. his birthday. A few months before the big event I presented him with theme ideas courtesy of my Pinterest Birthday Board . His pick.. an Alphabet Themed Party. I was not particularly surprised... the kid has 26 imaginary friends.. can you guess who? And so the planning began.. The Invite. The Party Favors: i found these adorable personalized alphabet coloring books.. tied them with a string, attached a bag of candy and finished them off with a balloon at the end. [lessons learned] don't buy personalized favors, even after RSVPing people decide to not show up and now I have coloring books with other kids names on them. Balloon, long string and a super windy day equal a jumbled mess of favors we had to untangle and untie! The Plan wa...