A blog post of miscellany.

I'm pretty sure one of the millions of papers you sign getting out of the Army is a requirement to finally grow some facial hair. Marc had a nice goatee going for a while, but then shaved it down to just a mustache. He kindly let me snap this picture of him half-way through the shave.

He shaved the mustache off this week, and poor Finn was NOT a fan. He gave Marc quite the stink-eye for the whole day after it was gone.

No, this is not a mug shot. It's a picture of Marc's ID badge picture. The best one we could find of how long his mustache got before he shaved it off.

The girls have been loving the bow and arrow sets they got for T's birthday. Nora willingly filled her role of the exploited little sister and acted as not only the target, but the arrow retriever as well.

Teresa got her hair cut. I am so, so sad about it. Seriously, I want to cry when I see how long it used to be. Of course I think she looks adorable and gorgeous with the short hair, too. But I just loved her long hair so much. She was so excited to get it cut, though. Her main motivation was to make hair combing easier. We sometimes spent up to 45 minutes working on getting all the tangles out, and there were always lots of tears involved, poor kiddo. She was so funny during the whole haircut, she looked so solemn and serious.

Here it is right before we went to get it cut. I pre-combed out all the tangles, so it was a bit frizzy, but look how long! She was hoping to donate it, and we were a bit surprised it wasn't long enough to do so.

But that means we can't do as much fun braiding now, like this cute hairstyle T requested.

We rode the train up to the Baltimore Science Center a few weeks ago. Finners had a blast in the two and under room. He loves to kiss that handsome baby in the mirror.

Whhhhyyyyy couldn't they have put them in ROYGBIV order?

We had some snacks on the harbor before heading home.

 It was about a fifteen minute walk from the train to the center, and by the time we walked there, spent the afternoon exploring and started the walk back our girls had some tired little legs. Luckily they have a super-strong dad that was willing to help them out. That's about eighty pounds of little girl he's carrying.

Finn had fun at the park with his little friend. 

He still hasn't figured out the whole water bottle concept just yet.

Tried to get some pictures of these cuties after church last week. It was semi-successful. 

How much longer until he is bigger than her, I wonder...

Things unraveled pretty fast after this.

Church is a bit of a struggle with Finn. It's right when he wants to take a good nap, so he is generally a mix of sleepy, grumpy, or just really loud. Last week I took him to the mother's lounge to try to help him settle down and he passed out pretty fast.

I may or may not have followed suit shortly thereafter. Hopefully no one else came in during that time...

We are eating as much watermelon and cantaloupe as we can this summer. Have to make up for last summer when I couldn't eat it due to this little rascal that was inside me.

Selfies with Finn.

We had a couple of days of awesome thunderstorms this week. Which meant there were lots of puddles to play in at the park today.

Nora put this box on her head and asked me to take a picture. She's a funny little thing.

Aaaaand that brings us all the way up to date!

Frozen party

We weren't planning to throw a big party for Teresa's birthday this year, but when her two friends with May birthdays invited us to join up with them for a fun Frozen party we just couldn't pass it up. (As a side note, I seeeeriously owe Nora an awesome birthday party next year! Poor little lass has never had a friend party, and this was T's second).

The party turned out so awesome. Mostly because I have super creative and crafty friends. I kind of felt like dead-weight for most of the party preparations because Finn was being a stinker and would just cry and be devastated if I wasn't holding him. 

The main attraction of the night was Queen Elsa! It's safe to say that the girls were over the moon when she showed up. She was so great, and honestly did pretty much all the work of entertaining all the little kiddos that were there. She works for a princess party company up here, but also happens to be one of Amy's friends in real life.  

The little ones snacked while they were waiting for the main event to get started.

She started out by crowning the three birthday princesses.

Then they all sat down and she played a cute guessing game with the kids - she would sing a princess song and the kids had to guess which one of her princess friends originally sang it. It was so cute seeing their little arms pop up, eager to answer her.

Nora was totally enchanted by her. Another reason I felt guilty about doing an Elsa party for T - Nora is an even bigger fan of Elsa than Teresa is!

She handed out a ring to each of the kids as they answered her questions, and then she got out a Frozen book and told them her story. All the kids were so cute and helped her sing her big song. After that she passed out some foam crowns and stickers for all the kids to decorate. Nora was kind enough to donate hers to me.

But wait, there's more! After the singing and the story and the crowns she then gave all the kids glitter tattoos! She even had non-glittery ones for the boys, if they wanted.

We had some super delicious snowflake cookies and snowball cake pops for dessert. Too bad no one at the party had any sort of device with which to light those candles. The girls were good sports and pretended to blow them out, instead.

Then she finished off the night taking pictures with all the kids.

First the birthday girls:

Letting it go.

If only we could all be as photogenic as Nora. 

Elsa was such a great entertainer, and the kids all just had the best time. I'm so glad we were able to participate! We waited a little too long to book her, so we ended up having the party on a Friday night. The  girls were sooooo tired by the time everyone had left and we were cleaning up, I think they were asleep before we even got them completely buckled in to their car seats. 

Aaaaaand here's a bunch of outtakes from when we were setting up for the party.

Finn is so handsome. 

I love him!

I love this handsome little dude, too. He and Finn were born only 3ish weeks apart.

 Waiting to get all dolled up for the party.

Yes.

We made the girls their Elsa dresses. Well, I only made about half of T's, thanks to the aforementioned stinker baby that wouldn't let me put him down long enough to get it all done.

The girls were more than happy to perform for the camera while they waited for their friends to show up. 

I love this picture so much! They are just the cutest friends. (Yesterday we went to get T from their house after school and they had switched clothes and shoes and were pretending to be each other. T would only respond to being called Mina, and kept referring to me a Teresa's mom and stuff. It was pretty cute.)