Fly On The Wall Friday

Talking about Grace's birthday coming up Steve says everyone should donate to her college fund (typical Steve) and Grace chimes in "I'm not going to college, I'm too little."  Steve then tells her not now, when she gets older and she asks "like when I'm 4?"  Then she went on to say she can't go by herself so mommy will have to go with her and so will daddy and Caroline, Mitchell & Steven.



Steve: Big girls don't need binkies.
Grace pointing to herself:  Well this one does!



Driving Caroline and her friend to Brownies the other day Caroline is talking about her Pet badge and the friend chimes in about her dog an dhow silly he is and then I hear her say "my dogs chews on his private parts"  and then they both start giggling.  Oh geesh.

Good spot to read his book

Everyone has a talent

Steve decided it was time it remove the child safety locks around the house.....

Utility room lock is back on now.

Playing in the rain

Fly On The Wall Friday

Welcome to the 1st edition of Fly On The Wall Friday where you will see and hear things you would have if you were..........that's right  a Fly On The Wall hanging with the Iveys.

Just leave me alone.

Lizard Flashcard

Mitchell's Lizard

Everyone is buckled up safely.

Caroline's 8th Birthday

Caroline's birthday has always been a bit of a pickle around here.  Being 2 days after Christmas we have a hard time deciding when to celebrate her birthday with family.  Having a kids party is easy since  everyone is off school and looking for things to do during the day anyhow but between Christmas, New Year's and vacations Caroline's birthday turns into a multi-week celebration.  Not like she's complaining tho.  This year we had the family party scheduled and the flu hit our house in the days leading up to it.  It was almost halfway through January and we were booked up the rest of the month.  Cake was ordered and Caroline was all geared up, what was a girl to do?  Have a travelling birthday party of course!


On Saturday Jan 12th Caroline, Grace & I headed out in the morning to pick up the special cake from a friend of mine who has a home-based business.  We drove the Aunt Sandi's and awaited the decision on where we were to meet the rest of the Ivey gang for lunch.  Grandma & Grandpa Ivey were recovering from being sick as well so they weren't going to make it.  We played checkers at Aunt Sandi's, I enjoyed some hot coffee and the girls were filled with cheese puffs.

Around lunchtime we met at Orland Patio and had our party there.  It was perfect, there was plenty of room, we could be noisy, everyone got to eat what they wanted and I didn't have to clean before and after the party.  Even the boy cousins enjoyed themselves.  The manager came over and admired the cake as well, it was a cool Monster High cake.  As we left Caroline said she wanted to have her birthday party at Patio next year too. AWESOME!

We stopped at home for a rest before the Steele's were going to be home and ready for us.  Caroline changed into one of her new outfits from earlier and then we travelled with our half eaten cake to sing Happy Birthday again.  This time we had ice cream as a bonus and more presents of course.  This is turning out to be quite a birthday.

We wrapped it up at Uncle Jimmy's and finally made it to Grandma & Grandpa Steele's house.  I was all caked out but I'm pretty sure the girls crammed a few more bites in.