Happy Birthday!

They grow up so fast! On September 23rd we celebrated Josh's 17th and Maryn's 2nd birthday. We celebrated with both sets of grandparents and my sister and her family. We ate pizza, veggies, cake and ice cream. Mommom made the cakes! A purple butterfly (chocolate) for Maryn. Maryn selected what she wanted from the design, color and flavor! Josh's cake was a prism which is the theme of the marching band show this year. Mommom copied the design from Josh's show shirt. We had a fun dinner followed by football game and marching band show.

We are so thankful for each of our children and enjoy celebrating each year with them. We had to light Maryn's candles and sing to her four times. She was enjoying the attention immensely! She was actually able to blow out her own candles, unassisted and joined us in singing "Happy Birthday" to her!

My Helper Girl

I am so blessed to have a daughter who wants to help...sometimes I'm more "blessed" than others. Maryn loves to help cook, prepare food, and wash dishes. When I start dinner she runs to the dining room to get a chair to stand on. This day she helped me make a meatloaf. Later when we were telling Josh what she did, Josh made the comment that Maryn could cook more than he could. He can heat up pizza and hot pockets. Maryn very quickly pointed out that she can cook pizza too! She is especially thorough in washing dishes to include the counter, chair, front of her clothes and the floor below! :)

Play-dough

One of Maryn's favorite activities to do with Daddy is playing with play-dough, as you will see in the pictures, Mommy would not be encouraging head pieces. Caleb even gets in on the action!

Maryn and Daddy

Maryn loves water and is learning there are many ways to enjoy the water. Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of the pool...actually I'm thankful because I would have been in them... you get the idea! We spent quite a bit of time at my parents home on Lake Anna. Maryn got her first rides on the wave runner with Daddy. She also enjoyed jumping off the dock into the lake.