Last Monday, was my Grandma’s birthday. She would have been John and Gillian’s great-grandmother. Unfortunately she passed away before Daddy and I got married. She never got to meet John and Gillian. But I know she looks down on us. I see a lot of her in my Gillian. Anyway after we went to the… Continue reading My Grandma’s Birthday
Yesterday was my birthday, we spent most of the day getting our house back to normal. We had new carpet installed on the second floor and yesterday we moved everyone back into their rooms. When Gillian found out that is was my birthday she asked “Can we make cake?” Gillian loves cake. Daddy promised her… Continue reading Cake
When GillIan heard that it was Aunt Betty’s birthday last week, the first thing she said to me was “When do we get cake?” She was a little distraught to find out that we weren’t going to have any cake. I suggested that maybe we invite Aunt Betty over this weekend and make her a… Continue reading The cake
Tonight after dinner, John and Gillian were telling me about an episode of My Little Pony. Gilly said “They make a cake. It was marbleous.” (That’s not a typo, that is how she pronounced marvelous) I didn’t really understand. And I looked at John to explain to me. He said “It’s a marvelous cake. They… Continue reading Marvelous
Gillian and I picked up John from school today. We noticed that there was a plastic fireman’s hat in his backpack. I asked John if a fireman came to school today. He said “Yes! We learned about fire safety.” I asked him to tell Gillian what that means. He said to Gillian “You can’t play with matches or… Continue reading Fire Safety
Gillian likes to pretend to bake cakes. Her cakes always have interesting ingredients. We went to the beach on Saturday and Gillian made us some cakes in the sand. As she put sand in her pan, she asked “You like chocolate?” The she would add some sand. “You like sprinkles?” She added chocolate chips and… Continue reading My little baker
Aunt Missy and Uncle T invited us to their house for a party to celebrate their first anniversary. I told the kids it was a party to eat cake. This made Gillian super excited. All day yesterday, she said to me “We go to Missy’s house now?” After asking me a million times I think… Continue reading Caaake Party
Last night was Little Kyle’s birthday party. Aunt Trish made cupcakes with blue and white icing and a cake too. Gillian inspected the cupcakes and decided she wanted a blue one. She licked all the icing off first and then attacked the cake. She ended up with blue icing all over her face, but she… Continue reading Cake, part 2
Gillian is clearly my daughter. She loves cake and chocolate. Here are a few of her cake stories. A month ago, we were at Daddy’s cousin’s baptism. While sitting at the table and talking Gillian pointed and screamed “Cake!” Yes, the cake was being served, but she didn’t need to announce it to the entire… Continue reading Cake
Today we met Mimi at Freehold Raceway for Open Space Pace. Bascially it is a festival for horses in Freehold. They had a parade, races, vendors, music and a petting zoo. We didn’t get to see the parade of horses through downtown, but we arrived at the raceway in time to walk thru the vendors… Continue reading Petting Zoo and Craft Fair
John and Gill went up a hill 