The Mommy Chronicles

Happy Halloween

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 04:37:00 +0000

I think I love Halloween just as much as my kids do! Tonight we went to the big Halloween Bash at church and we all had a great time. Even Yoda wore his costume, I think mostly because he realized there was candy involved! Happy Halloween everyone!

My little Pumpkins and I all dressed and ready for candy!

Yoda and Leia

The fairies are on a candy mission

Stained glass fairy, Princesses Leia, and the Toothfairy

Candy Please

Thank you!

This tooth fairy is more after candy to rot her teeth, than she is actually looking for teeth

The force is strong with this one

The candy swap

Aloha!

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 22:36:00 +0000

When Sofia told me she wanted to get a giant water slide for her birthday party, I was like, "Yes! That is an excellent idea!" I didn't know just how fun it would actually be for me too!!!!! This party was a BLAST, for everyone! I think we will do a luau, and a water slide for every birthday from now on:) She looked beautiful and we all had a great time. It was fun to plan it with her, she is definitely at an age where she wanted to be a part of it all. She picked out her dress, the water slide, she even drew a picture of exactly what she wanted her cake to look like (I definitely tried to match her drawing).

Mommy with the birthday girl and "birthday girl sister." Emmy was so proud to be that title:)

The GIANT water slide in our backyard, I had NO idea it was going to be THIS big!!!!!! So fun! So glad it fit!

Birthday girl with her water slide

One of our stations was to pose as a real Hawaiian:) This was Emily's favorite!

Sullivan with Rebecca our neighbor girl. He was the party shark!

The cake that Sofia designed

Luau princess

Happy Birthday to you!

Opening presents and waiting for cake

Little Girl is 6!!!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 05:59:00 +0000

I can't believe it, I officially have a six year old!!!!! She is wonderful, beautiful, amazing, talented, respectful....I could go on and on and on:)

We went to American Girl and of course brought Saige (her doll, that she LOVES) and celebrated with Mimi, Emily and Sullivan. It was so fun to celebrate such a fun girl. Happy Birthday Little Girl.

Started the day with gifts. She finally got her Cinderella bike that she wanted SO badly. She rode it all over the house:)

Happy Birthday to you!

Birthday girl's sister- that is the title Emily gave herself.

My Mom with all the kids, at the Grove with these beautiful pinwheels and flowers.

Emily rocking her baby, so sweet.

The professor

Sullivan showing us, that he is indeed done with American girl.

Saige, Sofia, and her balloon.

Sullivan at his business lunch.

Birthday girl, ready for bed.

Cheerleader

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:59:00 +0000

Sofia has decided that she wants to be two things in life: a veterinarian and a cheerleader. I will help her do both:) We started with cheerleading. She LOVED it!!!! She went to a class every week, performed in two parades, and at the Dodger game. It was super exciting to see her doing something she loved.

Sofia's and her #1 fan

LOVE this one!

I love this picture because it shows the chaos and fun that it is to be at a parade:)

Here is Sofia and her coach

It was also Emily and Sullivan's first baseball game. They weren't very interested in the game. However they loved all the junk food, and the GIANT bobble heads. Sullivan kept telling us he wanted to hold it's hand and then for us to take his picture. It was all quite hilarious!!!! Emily is still

talking about the cotton candy:)

We love summer!

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 20:27:00 +0000

We have all LOVED summer. The sleeping in, the PJ days, playing, playing and more playing. We also love the beach....well two of the three do. Sofia was born to be a beach babe! She loves the water, the sand, the sun, the running, playing everything about it. Emily loves, none of it! She doesn't like being outside, the water, the sand, the hot.....I mean none. Sullivan loves the sand! He loves building with it, throwing it, shoveling it, sitting in it....he likes the water, but every time there is a big loud crash of a wave he is done, and it is cold. My favorite part is that he calls it a "hot pool," because that is what we call our hot tub at home, and then is really shocked and possibly offended when the water is cold. He always says, "NO, NO, and runs away crying." Here are some pics of our recent beach outing. We went with family friends and had a GREAT time! I think our smiles in all of the pictures tells you that though:)

It's in the water

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Thu, 30 May 2013 21:32:00 +0000

So everyone I know, and I mean everyone I know is pregnant! It made me feel so nostalgic, especially because half of them are due in October and everyone is finding out what they are having. I remembered this video that Chad took right after Sullivan was born to come out to the waiting room to tell my mom and Sofia that he was a boy. Their reactions couldn't have been more different...ha ha! Sofia definitely wanted another sister (which she is glad he is a boy now), but wasn't so sure once Chad said he was a boy, and my mom couldn't have been more excited. I LOVE this video and just wanted to share.

Bikes

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:23:00 +0000

Ok so I have not posted in FOREVER! We are just too busy, sorry. However today I just wanted to give a quick update. My life is CRAZY!!!!!!! I can not wait for summer, and to just hang out and not worry about schedules.

Sofia has almost finished Kindergarten, has no teeth, and is my busy girl. She reads, loves ballet and tap, loves to do art, and is still doing daisy girl scouts.

Emily is growing up WAY to fast! She is now 3 and loves to be with her big sister as much as possible. The two are the best of friends! Emily LOVES ballet (if fact I can't get the girl to wear anything but a leotard these days), she has really started to love coloring, and loves, loves, loves to ride her bike.

Sullivan, my VERY busy little man. He is a talker for sure. He repeats everything, goes everywhere, is into everything, and loves music. He carries around an ipod almost everywhere he goes.

I love being a busy mom of three!!!!!

Here they are doing some bike riding. Yes I know Sullivan has a pink car, such is the life of a boy with sisters.

I love this picture because of the look of adoration in Emily's eyes. And I remember I wanted them all to just look at me, but Sofia was so worried that Emily was just going to take off and be "unsafe."

Here Emily is doing what she calls her "squeankie smile," and I love that Sullivan would like us to just get going, and Sofia has NO teeth!

My big bike rider

There she goes!

This is typical of little man, phone in one hand, beads, and a hat. The shirt and tie are just bonus:)

Sullivan's 1st birthday!

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:01:00 +0000

Well the Little Monster turned one on Saturday, and true to Smith form we threw a huge party! We had a bounce house (which was a huge hit), pizza, monster inc themed cupcakes and a cake, and a TON of kids. Sullivan loved everyone coming over and singing to him, he thought that was AMAZING! He also devoured his cake. We had a great time, and can't believe this sweet boy is one:)

Sulli, Randle, and Mike Wazowski cupcakes

Sullivan's smash cake, it was so much fun to make this with him destroying it in mind:)

My big girl

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:33:00 +0000

Well my blog has definitely taken a hit lately! I don't know if it is having a busy baby, a busy 5 year old, or a busy 2 year old, or a busy season! Life is just busy:)

Speaking of busy, here are a couple of fun things Sofia has been up to lately. She is now an official Daisy Girl Scout! She loves it!!!!!! She participated in the Christmas Parade with her troupe, they were little elves. She also had her official pinning ceremony. Here are some pictures from both.

I also took the kids on our annual trip to see Santa. It was super fun, except afterwards Sofia said, "I don't feel so good." I wondered why she was a little off that morning, I just thought it was the excitement. No she had a 101 fever!

Merry Christmas to everyone. Hopefully I will post more in the new year;)

Halloween

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 03:47:00 +0000

We had a blast this Halloween. However I am EXHAUSTED!!!!!! I am so glad I have a whole year to recover before there is another one:)

Emily, Sullivan and I at Sofia's school parade

Sofia and her teacher

By far my favorite picture of the entire day. Sofia waving like a disney princess at her school parade

The gang going trick-or-treating

Sofia and her prince

We had a great day, and a wonderful start to the fall! Happy Halloween everyone....now let's eat Turkey!

HEY!

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 05:10:00 +0000

This video was taken a month and a half ago, but shocker I never got the chance to post it! Sullivan is a BIG talker!!!!! He yells, says "Hi," "Hey," and "Dad," Sofia swears he has said Sofia, but I have yet to hear it. Here is a video of him saying "Hey." He says it just like my dad:)

Leaving Little Brother out

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 05:03:00 +0000

So today while I was doing dishes my kids were playing happily in the next room, then it got quiet. So I did what every mother does, grabs my camera, and hide to video tape whatever they are up to. They were up to leaving little man out because he sadly can't follow them yet. Here is the video of the poor little man desperately trying to "catch," them, gain their attention, or just shout and run them into including him. The video is a little long, but if you hang in you can see them include him in the end, only to make him the bad guy (they are calling him Tybalt, from Gnomeo and Juliet). Awe, older sisters:)

Happy Halloween

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:22:00 +0000

Here they are all making a spooky scowl!

I went with my mom to get the kids pictures taken for Halloween. They came out soooooo cute!!! Here are a couple of them.

My two little pumpkin girls

Sullivan's first Halloween, he is the BIG BAD WOLF!

My littlest pumpkin:)

Cutie Sisters

Mermaid Princess

Reading a spooky story

Little Red

Busy, busy, busy

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:33:00 +0000

Well it has finally happened a whole month went by and no post. That is what three kids will do to a blog:)

We have been busy, busy, busy!!!! I am currently writing this one handed and sleep deprived, I hope at least some of it will make sense;)

Sofia is doing school, ballet, now hip hop class, and will start Daisy girl scouts soon! I have officially become her taxi. She has also lost two teeth and is working on a third!

Sofia posing with her first lost tooth with a picture of her at six months when she had just gotten her first tooth in! Man how time flies!

Emmy is going to mommy and me preschool, and attempted hip hop class with Sofia until a little boy touched her arm and now she hates it and refuses to go. She loves to stay at home and play with her Barbies and princesses. We have also started bible study, where she likes to go because she gets to make a craft. She is still doing gymboree and loving that.

Emily and Sofia going to hip hop together for the first time (and the last time for Emmy!)

Emily painting at preschool.

Sullivan is growing. I finally had to take him out of the infant carrier because the plastic was starting to break and I was getting calluses. He is still not sleeping through the night, because he would rather nurse all night and play all day. He loves to eat solids, and "true solids" non of this baby food stuff:)

Sullivan sleeping during the day in his glider, please read his shirt!

Chad and I are great, sleepy, but great. Life with three kids is very full, but also very fun.

There is the Smith family update, now for some photos and video:) Enjoy!

Sisters

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:00:00 +0000

I LOVE my girls, but they really love each other. Now don't get me wrong there is always a fight once a day over sharing princesses, or who gets to be the most beautiful something or other. But they sure do have a good time, and I love watching and hearing them play together!

They may love each other, but the other person they really love is Little Man. There is always room for him!

KINDERGARTEN!

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 03:04:00 +0000

I can not believe that Sofia started Kindergarten today! Wasn't it yesterday that Chad and I were speeding down Viers Mill Road at 90 miles an hour to bring this little girl into this world? She LOVED every minute, and was soooooooo incredibly excited about it all. She has several friends in her class, which I think will make the school year fun.

Next you know we will be driving her to college, and going to her wedding, and....tear, tear, sob, sob;)

The actual birthday

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:04:00 +0000

For Sofia's actual birthday we took her to the beach, had breakfast and then went to Sprinkles Cupcakes for her birthday cupcake. The beach was a blast, and breakfast was as always great. But the big deal was going to Sprinkles! Sofia has become OBSESSED with a show called Cupcake Wars. She thinks that Candace Nelson hung the moon! We have watched every episode 20 times and she can tell you every ingredient known to man. We play cupcake Wars, we talk about Cupcake Wars, I swear the girl eats, breathes, and lives baking! She wrote a letter to her beloved Candace Nelson and we went and had cupcakes in Newport. She loved it!

Her letter to Candace Nelson. She is sitting at the table judging Cupcake Wars.

Here she is in front of Sprinkles Bakery, she is slightly annoyed with me because she is DIEING to go in!

Here she is with her new friend Nicole. She loved her!

Sisters!

Birthday girl with her crayon gotee

Birthday girl running on the beach.

Mimi and the girls on the beach

me and my girls

pb at breakfast

Sofia's 5!!!!! Can you believe it!?!?

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 22:46:00 +0000

We have been celebrating Sofia turning 5 for about a month now! We did so much, that I am just now downloading pictures of all of the fun, I will do a couple of posts, so you don't have to feel like you just read a novel about Sofia's birthday;)

For her birthday party we did a Tinkerbell theme. I went WAY over board as I always do and it was SUPER fun. We got wings, necklaces and tiara's for the girls. For the boys we got pirate hats, tattoos and patches. Emily did her own thing and was Alice for the birthday party...she is too funny! My parents came in for the big party too (thank heavens...could not have done this without them:)

We also played a game where the parents were thistles (you have to see the movie) and they chased the kids, and they froze, then the fairies or kids chased the thistles and froze them. It was really fun! We did this party at a park, and I will forever do a party at the park from now on! It was the easiest and most fun party we have had yet!

Fairy Ballet

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:34:00 +0000

Sofia this summer has been doing a fairy ballet camp. They will have a performance in the next couple of weeks. Emily of course has missed her terribly each day, so she dawns her own leotard, and always manages to sneak in and pretend to also be a part of fairy ballet for a minute or two. Sofia has learned a lot and LOVES it. I can't wait to see her performance!

Of course you have to mow the yard really quick in your tutu, before you go to ballet class!

Fairy Ballet also completely wipes up out!!!!!

Restful Summer

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 06:05:00 +0000

This summer has been anything but restful!!!! Fun, but not restful. We started off by doing swim lessons for both girls. Sofia loved them, Emily (and Sullivan) didn't like them. Emily because she isn't so much of a water person, and Sullivan because it was the hottest week of the whole summer! The next week Emily continued with swim lessons and Sofia did VBS. This week Sofia is doing a Fairy Ballet Camp, and swim lessons. I totally feel like a taxi driver!!!!! I do not think we will do this again next summer.

Sofia at VBS with her new friend Ally.

Sofia and her buddies at VBS

Sofia jumping off of the diving board.

You can't hear her screaming in this picture, but this is Emily swimming to the wall.

Sofia doing the back stroke. She qualified to do swim team, because she can swim the whole length of the pool!

Emily and Miss Stacy

Sullivan watching the basketball team, while waiting for his sisters to finish swim lessons. This was his favorite part.

Sofia and her instructor Kevin

doctor...doctor

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:14:00 +0000

Sullivan and Dr. Jick. The doctor who delivered him:)

4 months old!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:52:00 +0000

Posting this a week late, last week was nuts!!!! More on that to come. I am actually surprised that I was even able to take this picture last week. I can't believe little man is already 4 months old!

Happy 4th!

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 05:40:00 +0000

I can't think of anything better than celebrating my freedom with these cuties!

Sullivan's Baptism

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:49:00 +0000

Sullivan was baptized this last weekend, and it was such a wonderful day! I was such a proud mommy!!!!! He wore Chad's baptismal outfit, and he looked just as handsome as Chad did:) My parents were there, and that made it even more special. I was so thankful that they were there, I couldn't have done the party with out them. My mom stayed up until well past midnight making casseroles. The girls were very excited for Sulliman (and the party we had afterwards:) I made a TON of food. I wanted to thank everyone who had brought us meals while I was on bed rest, so I didn't want anyone to leave hungry....I think it is safe to say they didn't;)

This isn't even with half the food on it! But my mom helped me with setting a beautiful spread:)

I had to have pictures of little man as you walked in the door:)

Here is the man of the moment in his daddy's outfit:)

Family Vacation 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Katie) — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:06:00 +0000

Chad and I wanted to do our first family vacation, however with three little kids, one being an infant we decided to go on a small scale. We drove 25 minutes down the rode and stayed at a hotel in Disneyland. It was AWESOME!!!!! Everyone had a great time, and we didn't have to get on a plane or drive a zillion miles. We had so much fun just spending time together.

We stayed at the Paradise Pier hotel, and had a spectacular view of California Adventure, and got to watch world of color from our hotel room. We also ordered room service, which the girls got a huge kick out of. The pool at the hotel was super fun, and had a water slide! We took them to two Character Breakfasts, where they got to meet the princesses and then Mickey and his gang. We rode some rides, and even got to see the new Cars Land. The girls both got their faces painted. Sofia's came off after her second trip down splash mountain, we were all laughing so hard our sides hurt! We also all slept in the same room, which we were a little worried about at first, but the first night we were all laughing (mostly Chad and I), those girls are soooooo silly:) The second night we all passed out!

Over all we all had a WONDERFUL time. Both girls cried when we left, they wanted to stay "at the castle." We will definitely be doing this again!!!!

Here are some pictures, picture heavy and this wasn't half of them:) We truly had a great time!:

Goofy was there to greet us

Going swimming first thing when we got there

Room service and a special Princess show in the hotel room

View from our room, it was spectacular!

Breakfast with the Princesses. This was a surprise, they both loved it!

This is Sullivan at the Princesses Breakfast, he also loved it, can't you tell;)

Sleeping Beauty, a favorite by all.

Sullivan was captivated by his Mickey booties.

All of us at the Mickey Breakfast (this is pre-coffee for Chad and I:)

Both girls loved Stitch at the breakfast, I think he is by far the weirdest Disney character!

Emily was adamant about Mickey Mouse meeting "little bear," She is so funny with this little blanket. Mickey was super impressed with Little Bear:)

The girls dancing and getting surfing lessons with Mickey and Stitch

Sullivan may not have been impressed with the Princesses, but he did like Mickey.

Cars Land opened the day before we got there, it was super cool to see!!!!

The girls both got their faces painted, I was surprised that Emily chose a dragon, but she loved it. Sofia kept acting like a cat all day:)

Sofia and I rode splash mountain, not once but twice!!!! It was a blast!

And this is what her face painting looked like afterwards! Chad and I kept laughing and saying "why so serious!!!!!"

Little Man got a new hat so that he wouldn't get sunburnt, he ended up just looking really cute!!!!