Party Recovery

It was one party after another, and the party animals finally dropped from over stiulation. There were cake hangovers the next morning, but with a good mug of apple juice we all got on with the day. Rachel is in the process of perfecting her birthday wish list, so stay tuned when in August, we party again.........

Party Animals.....

First off, we went to the Library for story time. The theme for the day was Happy Birthday, they were So excited when they found out there was an actual b day girl there!

At 2pm the crew from T's came over for mini cupcakes.















At 5pm we met Richards JV team on the field for ice cream cake! GO HODAGS!!!!

Happy Hannah Celebrates

On May 15th Hannah was officially no longer a "0" she was very ...... um......happy?

Happy Birthday Aunt Erin!

Happy Birthday Aunt Erin

Here are your nieces with their stable of majestic steeds. They gathered in the bed room this morning to sing you happy birthday! We love you very much and can't wait for our cousin to come!

Things I learned This Week II

1) Do not lose your concentration.......
( ok, so I started this and then went off and .......made and served dinner, gave the girls a bath, read stories , sang songs, fed a bottle, warmed up something for Richard)

2) What i ment to say was....do not lose your concentration while running on a tredmill, you most likely will not fall completely off, but you will scare " your poops out" as we Kotulas say, and it isn't so nice when the old lady on the tredmill next to you gives you the " you silly oaf" look.

3) Do not allow your child to quickly slide in behind an automatic door. These marvels of science are not equipped with a child safety mechanism of any kind. The door will not stop opening and your child will be squashed ( but not hurt) between the door and the wall. The door will make very scary loud robotic strangling sound likes its trying to grind your child between its teeth. ( grrrr whirrrrr grrrr whirrrrr)

4) If you can't find your hair gel just ask your snot faced child to wipe her nose in your hair, she will gladly ablige ( she was going to anyway).

5) Children will repeat anything they hear, mostly if it has to do with a bodily function. So if your daughter gets pooped on by a bird, expect for her to tell everyone ( for the next week as least) that she has poop in her hair.

6) Its ok if you are traveling down the road and the song being sung in the back is " Where is Thumbkin" , and you are at the tall man verse. Do not worry about the passing cars that your child is unknowingly flipping off. If they are offended, then they need to get a life, and if they laugh and wave knowingly, they have a life.
" How are you today Sir? Very well I thank you, run away run away"

7) My daughter has a borse. A real horse. She is also friends with a giant. I learned this week to knock before entering the bathroom, cause I almost hit the giant with the door.

8) Squinty eyed fake crying will not receive encouragment through hugging and smooching, it sure is CUTE though.

Birthday Fever

The Banana Turns 1

join us at the Children's Museum

on May 24th from 10-12 noon

for playing and cake!

BUGinator

Ah, spring, pretty girls running in the fresh grass. Birds calling from the tree tops. Spring Peepers sounding from the pond at dusk. And LOADS of bugs to munch on! Oh yeah!!!

Pictures courtsey of RH Kotula Photography

Welcome Spring

I Meant To Do My Work Today
by Richard Le Gallienne

I meant to do my work today,
But a brown bird sang in the apple tree,And a butterfly flitted across the field,
And all the leaves were calling me.
And the wind went sighing over the land,Tossing the grasses to and fro,
And a rainbow held out its shining hand--So what could I do but laugh and go?

Box Day

Aunt Edith sent a box today!! All sorts of fun stuff for everyone! Thanks to Aunt Edith

Ode to Cafe Verona

Ah, cafe Verona, how sweet is your aroma

You take me from blah to whoopie

I tried to quit you

but now that I miss you

come back to me, to me

Crawling!!!

Well, its the end of the world as we know it! Hannah is finally crawling! I had promised myself I wouldn't worry about her development in this area, her sister was late on crawling and walking to. But, I did anyway. She was so MAD and FRUSTRATED all the time! I was about to go bonkers! But as you can see our "Happy Hannah" is back and terrorizing her sister! What a great summer it will be!

side note: that sexy foot in the bottom picture belongs to THIS hot mama!

Happy Birthday Uncle Tator

Today is Uncle Taylor's 12th birthday! I was thinking back this morning during my run , remembering the adventure that was the big day.
We all got up that morning and and got ready for school. I don't remember Mom being any different, but my mom is pretty cool about such things, and being a mom myself now, I understand! We had breakfast. It was after breakfast that I first got the feeling that something was up. I asked Dad about it and he said for me to just go to school and they would have someone come and get me if things started happening. I actually got on the bus and into my seat before Dad come bolting out of the house to get me off the bus! It was the big day!!!! I went back inside expecting mayhem, but there was mom, picking out toys for Erin and Dane and asking me to load everything in the car. She actually made a point to make sure I had homework to do, and asked that I call the school to make sure I didn't fall behind for that day!!! We all loaded in to the Mallenium Falcon and made our way to the hospital.
At the hospital we Patterson kids proceeded to spread ourselves and our stuff all over the waiting room. We waited and waited and waited. Then, there was Dad with Taylor! He was such a proud Papa! Erin and I got to help with the first bath and the first diaper ( I won't go into detail, you need to ask Taylor about this part). It was a GOOD day!
Its so fun for my girls to have a young Uncle. We love Uncle Taylor very much and wish him many more birthdays!

As a side note: at this very moment my sister is going to the hospital because of "labor like" feelings. Another May birthday? Well, we'll see!