We spent most of our fourth in Happy Valley with my sister and her family so we got to start the day off with some sliding in their backyard!




We then headed to the park because they do a big celebration with food vendors (ate way too many sweets) and bouncy houses for the kids. Allie is still a bit to small for all that but she had fun anyways. I think this picture is so funny. They are making identical faces.


We then barbecued and hung out letting the kids do some fireworks.




and then (I think this is so awesome) the neighborhood does a kid parade. Allie had fun waving at all the people. She was so cute doing her princess wave. Then Happy Valley does a big fireworks show but we got Allie home and in bed before that. We had a fun day!

The other day while in the bedroom Allie came in and shut the door. She then turned to me, put her hands on either side of her face and said "Oh Dear".
That night we put her to bed and she sat in there and cried over and over "Oh Dear!!!"

While at the mall with Nonna she saw a Thomas the Train book and said "Oh my gosh!"

While getting ready to leave she said "Let's go baby"

and once again I try to get her to say Yes Mama while trying to obey and she started saying "Yes Baby".

Yep that's right! We have officially become claustrophobic in our place and we started searching a few months ago. We found a great townhouse out in Clackamas. It has three bedroom and three full baths. and I think it's hilarious that Allie will get her own bathroom and walk in closet. Spoiled. :) So if any of you blog readers want to be our bestest friends and help us move on July 10th please let us know! Wish us luck as we prepare to move yet again. It is never ending. ;)

I asked Will (2 1/2) if he wanted some apricot and he said

Will: "Yes I would like some aperpot."

Every time Allie hears or sees anything about a monkey she says

"No more monkeys jump on da bed"

Whenever Allie asks for something Matt always says "oh okay" so Allie now says it whenever she asks for something. For example

Allie: "Milk please"
Me: "Here's your milk"
Allie: "Oh okay"

Out landlord is currently redoing to roof on the house and the roofers where there during the weekend. It was quite annoying trying to get Allie her naps. On Monday Matt had one of the windows open and the roofers were whistling outside. Allie looked at Matt and started saying "Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho".

Here are some cute Will (my nephew 2 1/2) ism's

Camera Shy

not appropriate for little readers.


















This was the conversation between Beth and I the other night after a commercial for the new Sex and the City Movie. (must say that earlier in the day Beth was giving me crap for watching the golden girls)


Me: So gross

Beth: What

Me: They are so old now who wants to watch a movie about a bunch of old lady's talking about sex?

Beth: Well the golden girls had sex!

Me: Only Blanch, she was a whore!

We bought Allie her first bible the other day and she loves reading it before bed now. The first day we got it she loved talking about the baby in the book (which was Moses in his basket), she kept telling me he was poopy. Then while reading it at bed time she kissed the Jesus picture over and over. I think she likes her new bible.

About a month ago Allie started doing "the eyebrows" to us at random times. I finally caught it on tape. Sorry youtube makes it a little blurry and her eyebrows are so light but it's so adorable once she does it. :) Enjoy! - Eyebrows

Yesterday Matt and I started to smell something funky and we asked Allie is she was poopy. Will (2 1/2) being the good big cousin decided it was his job to check her and went over to lift up her shirt and try and check her. She started to squirm away but the look on his face followed quickly by a gag did indeed tell us that she was poopy. We haven't laughed that hard in a while. :)

Saturday was the only day it rained at the beach so we decided that would be a good day to visit Tillamook. Even though the factory is a glorified cheese store I love it. and Allie has been really into cows lately (although the picture below is the only cow we encountered but she still loved it). We saw how cheese was made, tried samples and bought lots of yummy things. Including a garlic white cheddar cheese. Yum! We then ate a huge bowl of ice cream and headed back to Cannon Beach.

Watching cheese being made

Later that night we decided to walk around town and grab dinner. Right as we were parking Allie thought is would be a great time to upchuck all that cheese she ate in her car seat. Thank goodness we were only a minute from our hotel. Later she was feeling better and we thought it was maybe a one time thing so we headed to Seaside for dinner. While at the table she started to puke again - in front of a bunch of people trying to eat. We hadn't gotten our food yet so we canceled the order. The waitress was super nice and even gave us our drinks in to go cups for free. On our way out Matt spilled his smoothie all over the front door step. We felt so bad because they gave us our drinks for free and as a thanks so dumped it on their doorstep to clean up! We just laughed on the way home. Sometimes being a parent is NOT what you expect and you just have to laugh.


The next day we had some great beach time. She was walking around saying Beach!! She then found some beach toys and began to play not worried about if they were ours or not. It was so cute. I am so glad she loved the beach because we are definitely a beach family!

We started off our vacation by dropping Allie off with my mom for her first overnight stay. We then headed downtown for some dinner and the Dream Girls Broadway show. It was great. The singing was amazing. but what's funny is that we liked a sub character even more then Effie the main character. We then headed to The Governor Hotel. It is this really cool hotel built in 1909. Then the morning was spent sleeping in! getting coffee, reading in bed and then Matt and I went out to a great breakfast at a place downtown that has pancakes bigger then your head! Their awesome. We then went and got Allie from my parents and we headed to the beach. Allie did great on her over night and had a ton of fun with my parents. It was so nice to have a night to ourselves and do something other then go to a movie. and my fav part was waking up, getting coffee and reading, in other words doing whatever I wanted in the morning!

On the way to the beach we passed our friends The Roths on the freeway. Mike being Mike almost ran us off the road trying to get our attention. We thought it was just some drunk guy on the road. :) We then ran into them on the beach later that day. That was a fun surprise.

On Friday Allie got her real taste of playing in the sand. I bought her some new toys and she loved them! but every time she got sand on her pants she would stop and say UhOh!

Good weather that day but super windy so it was cold.

More to come tomorrow!

My cousin had a funny dream the other night I wanted to share. She dreamt that I had a son and he looked just like me but with dark hair and dark eyes and he was really big. So it was the exact opposite of Allie. So funny!

I was organizing baby clothes - Some I got from my sister that were Will's (don't get excited I did this with baby girl clothes years before we had Allie) and some of Allie's old clothes - When Allie decided to try some of it on. It took me a few days and she loved playing with all the little baby toys and trying various items of clothing and shoes.