Kinsey's BIG birthday present

May 20th, 2006
Jack has finally decided what he wants to build for Kinsey's second birthday coming up. With less than a month to go, he got it in his head that he wanted to build a 10 x 12 playhouse for his little girl. I was absolutely shocked and told him there was no way he could get it done. But he has been working his tail off to prove me wrong. Check out the progress he's made in ONE WEEK--and that's after work hours, too!

2 Years Old

May 6, 2006
Today we went to one of Kinsey's first friend's birthday party. I can't believe the kids are turning two already. Many of her baby friends were there, although none of them are babies anymore! The kids all played out in the back yard in the great play area that they had. I think this party finally inspired Jack's next major project...

Easter Weekend

April 17, 2006
Well, we were just starting to recooperate from our spring break trip and it was time for a big Easter weekend. Now that Kinsey is more into everything, we had a much busier weekend planned. On Saturday, we decided to brave 3 Easter egg hunts--our first with our "new" church, Briarwood Baptist, followed by our old faithful Oconee Womens' Club Easter egg hunt. This was the one Kinsey had her first appearance in the newspaper last year! I think they say that there were over 4000 kids there "hunting" over 50,000 eggs. I intentionally put hunting in quotes because it is not a hunt by any stretch of the imagination. The have these quarter-acre plots roped off and have tossed in thousands of eggs and hundreds of kids line up around the square and when they blow the whistle, the madness begins. Boy, you have never seen such competitive parents. Supposedly, there were eggs with golden tickets in them, but of course we never got one. Just several dozen eggs filled with some junky plastic toy. Just what we needed! Then we went to a neighborhood hunt to finish the day.

On Sunday, we had a lovely lunch and Jack's parents' house and late that afternoon, we went with our great friends Mary and Chris and their twin boys to the State Botanical Gardens for a photo shoot. After chasing my class bunny, Pepper, around the garden, trying catching flying baby chicks, and several hundred pictures later, we all drug ourselves home in utter exhaustion! What a weekend!

Spring Break Trip to Jamaica

April 10, 2006
I thought now would be a great chance for me to start my own blog site since we just got back from Jamaica and have lots of things to write about! Jack, Kinsey and I met Nanny and Papadad Putman at Beaches Ocho Rios last Saturday and spent a week playing and relaxing in the sun. What a vacation it was! Kinsey had a blast on the beach, going down waterslides, eating ice cream and dancing with the gang from Sesame Street. Her favorite character was "Melmo" by far! We learned quickly that you do NOT get a frozen drink without getting Kinsey one of her own. The same rule applies to popcorn. We also learned that Kinsey likes to be the center of attention (wait--no, we already knew that), but we did enjoy watching her shake her booty on stage. She must get her dancing skills from her daddy!

We got home from Jamaica Saturday night and still had a big weekend left. We went to Harrison's, one of Kinsey's play friends, 2nd birthday party. We were also very sad to miss her buds Jacob and John Scott's, (or Jay-blah and Jah blah as Kinsey so sweetly refers to them) monkey-themed party on Saturday. I cannot believe she will be two in just two months. Boy does time fly! I remember that tiny, peaceful little baby like it was yesterday.

We are looking forward to an exciting upcoming Easter weekend. Along with community and church egg hunts, I am excited to be getting baptized at out new church (of almost a year) this weekend. I will post more pictures of our big weekend.