Ashton's first Birthday and SNOW

So once again I forget to update this thing! Since I last blogged had Monkey's 1st birthday! I cannot believe my baby is 1 already! I seems like not to long ago we were in shock over finding out I got pregnant on my own! For his birthday we just hung around. Uncle Rob had come over the night before and spent the night so that morning I had everyone pancakes and eggs for breakfast. For dinner we ordered one of Monkey's favorite's pizza!

Since his birthday was on a Friday we had his party the next day. He had a Winnie the Pooh party since he seems to just LOVE and Winnie the Pooh stuffed animal. So I made him 2 Pooh cakes. One to destroy and one for the rest of us the eat. They did not take long at all and turned out pretty cute! Uncle Rob was glad to be there when I made the cake molds so he could lick the batter! LOL Good thing I made 2 cakes because I rinsed the first one out before he could eat it and he was upset.
Monkey was not sure what to think at first and ust kinda scraped the first little bit of frosting off.

THEN he figured it out..... You can see all the other kids eating the safe cake LOL Cake was EVERYWHERE! All in the back of his head and inside his ear! I gave him a bath after and the water...oh the water... LOL Some of the guests were shocked I was letting him go at it so much but hey you only have one first birthday and it is nothing a bath could not take care of! Though I was happy I got him undressed before we did the cake!
A few days later we had our first REAL snow...it only lasted a day but the kids had fun. We were lucky enough to find a sled and some gloves that make my kids look like OJ. However finding gloves in Jan in Maryland is hard...they were all on clearance already!











We also went to DC one Saturday! It was a really nice weekend and in the upper 60's. They now have the flag from the Star Spangled Banner on display so we thought we would go see it. I have pictures from this day but they are on someone else's camera. We never did make it to see the flag but we did see the Deceleration of Independence, some guy dressed and President Lincoln, the Magna Carta, and ended up at the Museum of Natural History where we say some animals and Dinosaurs. The kids had a great time and Cat Boy loved going on the choochoo (Metro). We can not wait for it to get warm again so we can hit up the zoo!

One night during dinner Monkey was fussing to get down. We were all still eating so I let him down and he was playing in the kitchen. He loves to take the cookie sheets out from under the oven so we hear him and figured this was what he was doing. He started squealing to get our attention and we turned around and saw this! Yeah he knew he was cute!










Then last night we had some MASSIVE snow. Massive for this area anyway. Close to a foot. So we bundled up and went to play today. Cat Boy did NOT like it. He liked it fine last night when it was falling but it was just TO deep for him. He was ok when we first went out but then he fell. You can see the picture of him when he fell and just grabbed his head like OH NO I FELL! Daddy and The Boy went sledding on the hill and we had some snowball fights. We tried to make a snowman but it just would not work very well. Daddy took Cat Boy inside and The Boy and I went to sled in the neighbor's yard and then play on SNOW MOUNTAIN (the pile made from plowing!). It was a blast but very cold. We do not have good snow clothes since we NEVER get snow like this.