Ashley's 2nd Birthday Party

the birthday girl

having fun

tractor ride

Cousin Ashley's party was today at a local farm. Sean and Ashley had fun chasing a goat and feeding all of the animals. Abby was a little skittish of the animals. They also got to ride a tractor and eat yummy Dora the Explorer birthday cake. Tonight, Sean told me that he had fun with his cousin Ashley. I was impressed that he used the word "cousin". He explained to me that Abby was Ashley's sister and that they were his cousins.

Playdate With Cousins

watering plants..he loves this
trying hard to take turns

This morning Sean got on the phone to tell everyone about seeing Thomas last night. Abby answered the phone at her house and I had ours on "speaker" and listened in. It was so cute. Sean: "what are you watching?" Abby: "Dora and the superbabies", Sean: "I got Imagination Movers", Abby: "you wanna come over?", Sean:"yep, I wanna ride the jeep". Then, Abby asked her mom (Nanny) if Sean could come by.

Sean was a bit wild, so we went outside where he and Abby watered plants (they wound up watering some fake one) and then they played on all of the riding toys. Sadly, the battery to the toy jeep needed to be charged.

Play Day With Kyle

Sean and Kyle
Kyle just finishing showing Sean how it's done

Look Mommy, I did it!

Since Kyle spent the night last night, he and Sean got to play a lot this am. Poor Kyle must have been tired of hearing his name called all last night and this morning. Sean kept saying, "Kyle, you wanna play with me?" and "Kyle, watch this". After feeding them breakfast, I got out the slip n slide and this time added some bath soap to make it extra slippery. The boys seemed to have fun. They watched some cartoons and then we brought Kyle back home. There is a 6 yr age difference between the cousins and Kyle was so sweet to play with Sean and Sean was enthralled by getting to play with a "big boy".

Cute Phone Call

Sean is liking to talk on the phone more and more and now walks off with the phone to talk. Unfortunately, he is still wanting to talk when I am talking. I talked to Nanny for a little bit and then we put Abby and Sean on the speaker phone with each other. Sean told Abby that he was going fishing. Abby asked Sean to come over to play dress up and Sean told her that he was already dressed!! I laughed so hard at that one. Then, Abby invited us over to dinner (it was 5pm). I got back on the phone with Nanny and told her that we wouldn't be coming over so late, especially since she wasn't planning on having people over for dinner. Don't you love it when kids do that? Sean also said that he was going to catch a dolphin with his Daddy! That's a tall order. I think he'll be happy if he catches any kind of fish.

Fun in the Bayou

Today, we headed down to Mr. Phil's house in Thibodaux for a Good Friday crawfish boil. Sean spent the drive looking for boats in the waterways and Kenny and I competed about with was better, his GPS or my Onstar (we used both!). I got Sean to say, "Onstar rocks". It was a great drive with a lot laughing.

We can't get Sean to eat crawfish, so he ate his usual, chicken nuggets. I took a picture of him eating these instead of crawfish. Hopefully, one day he'll like them. Sean had fun playing basketball and letting his cousins tickle him. He is the youngest out of this group of cousins. Watching Kenny spent alone time with Sean warmed my heart. I saw the two of them rocking on a swing and got teary. I joined them and it was so nice. Sean missed his nap today, so we had a couple of meltdowns and as we predicted, he fell asleep in the car on the way home.

It was so nice to spend time together as a family.