The Royal 8th Birthday!

HAPPY 8TH BIRTHDAY PRINCESS NIKKI!!!!!

The 10th was Her Majesty's 8th birthday. She got most of her presents early, but we are going to hopefully have a few of her cousins over in the next few weeks, so she could still get more.

On the other side, she visited the Royal Physician for her checkup. She is now 4' 7 3/4" tall and weighs 113#. She's off the charts for both. So of course I got the usual speech about not letting her eat junk, portion control, etc that I get every year. Oh well. She's just taking after her daddy.

Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes!

OK, so I don't know that whole head, shoulders, knees, and toes game but I do know where a few parts of my body are! I can show you my: eyes, ears, nose, mouth (which I usually have my suckie in), feet, toes, and my personal favorite my BELLY BUTTON!

Did you all know that there's that belly button down there? Wow every time I lift up my shirt or dress it's there. I really like to show it off to people (total strangers usually)...it makes Mommy cringe some, but I don't get it...are we supposed to show it off or not? It's fun to show off my belly button to people...they think it's funny and smile and laugh at me.

A trip to the zoo with the whole family!

We went to Brookfield Zoo with the whole family (and Auntie Pam too)! Sissy got to have a friend along. They had to bring Frogger with them (Frogger is their class social studies project....they have to bring Frogger to special places and then take pictures of themselves and write a paragraph about what they did with Frogger to turn in along with the pictures) We had a blast. The girls all rode the carousel. This time Daddy went on with Lizzie instead of Mommy. No big deal there. We also went to Stingray Bay to pet some stingrays (they're slimy!). Daddy really wanted to see Stingray Bay. We had lunch at a picnic table and ate PB&J sandwiches along with some chips for lunch. Lizzie's lunch was some chips, a piece of chocolate cookie, and a couple biter cookies. HEalthy selections there....but it was all I could get her to eat. Everyone also got their faces painted at the Hammill play zoo and Lizzie enjoyed seeing the tank of goldfish. The girls also played vets at the animal hospital. Overall we had lots of fun.



Don't worry sick aminals! Dr. Lizzie is on call! Hmm...what's wrong with this one?


Here's me and Daddy on the carousel...I rode the panda!


These are cownose stingrays. They are slimy and live in saltwater.


This is Sissy (R) and her friend Brianna (L) with Frogger at the frog statue right outside the zoo's gate

Some of my new words

I've learned a few new words! here they are in no particular order

1. boon (balloon)
2. ane (airplane)
3. eaf (leaf)
4. bird (i finally added the "d" sound to my previous "bir")
5. suckie (ok so I'm a paci addict)
6. piggy

First soccer game of the 2007-2008 season

Yesterday was Nikki's first soccer game of the new season. It was a great game and Nikki scored a goal from almost mid-field. She's got quite the kick (that was mentioned by several people sitting near us at the game...along with how tall she is). The main excitement was one of her team-mates getting sick on the sidelines and the ref stopping the game for around 15 minutes to tend to her. We saved the day by giving our coach some of Lizzie's wipe to clean her up.

Sadly Nikki's team lost 5-3. Oh well, there's always next time! GO WILD CHEETAHS! (that's their new team name this year. Nikki's suggestion was the Lions)

Random Ramblings

Well this has been a busy few weeks! I've learned to make music on Sissy's recorder.....that annoys Picaso (see him hiding under the table?) and Doby and then they join in singing too! Silly goggies.

Sidewalk chalk makes EXCELLENT makeup! I got bored of using the chalk the right way and decided to do a little makeover for myself....and you can't see, but my entire body is COVERED in chalk...I had lots of fun rolling in the chalk drawings that Sissy was making on the driveway. That was the first time I've had a bath before dinner!


Giving Mommy a few gray hairs here. See I can sit pretty on the ottoman. OK I confess--30 seconds later I was trying to stand up on that same ottoman. But see I'm cute and innocent! I have a very shiny halo!


OK thanks all for reading this....bye-bye now. Sending plenty of Lizzie kisses your way.