My Birthday Month!

Greetings,

February was a big month for us.  Both of mama's boys turned a year older and we had a great time celebrating.  Oliver turned 8 on the 1st and I turned 3 on the 22nd.  My birthday party was at Pump It Up - an inflatable bounce house and I had lots of friends and family there to help celebrate.  I picked a Jake the Pirate birthday theme, so there were lots of Jake balloons and a Jake cake that was delicious.  I got lots of great gifts and enjoyed turning 3.  Grandpa Steve traveled down from Iowa and helped Mama out so much by keeping me entertained while she ran errands for the party and helped with setting everything up for the party as well.  He also helped put some of my gifts together so I could enjoy them.  Uncle Shae, Aunt Lisette, Teddy, Leo, and Baby Charlie traveled for the party and we got to swim at the hotel, it was so much fun!  I kept asking Mama if we could go back to their house to swim and ride in the elevator.

We also had the worst ice storm in years in the middle of the month.  The ice came down on a Sunday night through Monday morning and we were iced in for two days.  There is still ice on the ground in spots because it has been cold ever since.  Mama says she had never seen anything like it, even in her almost 30 years living in Iowa. We are so ready to see the spring daffodils and warmer days.  Makes moving to Florida a serious option at this point.

We hope you are all staying warm and let's all hope spring is here sooner rather than later!  Here are some photos from February.

Love and hugs,
Mav

Branches from this tree fell within inches of our car from all of the ice

Ice, ice baby

we got around 1/2 an inch total

Mama made this fun for me out of  a cardboard box and emtpy paper towel

 and toilet paper rolls, so fun and thank you, Pinterest

That is a piece of ice days after it fell

At the hotel, swimming with Uncle Shae

My Jake the Pirate cake

Me and Cannon in the King's chair at Pump It Up

Yay!  I am 3

Going down the slide

Stopping for a quick photo

I had so much fun

Action shot

Thinking about climbing the wall

Me, Teddy, and Harlow trying to climb

In order from left to right  - Cousins Leo and Teddy, Topher, 

Cannon, Sebastian, me, Sayla, and Harlow

We missed you, Finley, Harper, Penny, and Benton

In the King's chair while everybody sang happy birthday to me

Me, Cannon, and Cousin Teddy 

I thought Oliver would like to wear my cape, I think he likes it

Happy 8th birthday to my best friend!

Winter Time!

Brrrr.  It is winter and we have had some cold days and some very nice days for January.  My goal is to update the blog on a monthly basis, you can call it my New Year's resolution.  We have had a pretty busy month of playing and learning around here.

Mama took me to the library for the first time for story hour and after that we picked out some new books to read.  After story hour it was a nice enough day to go out and play on the playground and it was big and lots of fun!

We have been playing with all of my new toys that Santa brought and some of my favorites are my Lego Duplo Batmobile and my jumbo Mr. Potato-head.  I also love to do puzzles.  I am learning how to trace letters at school and can count to 40.  I love to play dress up and watch Spider-man shows on Netflix.

I have been using the potty both at home and at school.  Mama is very proud of me and is hopeful that I will be wearing underwear by the time I am 3!

Here are some photos from the past month and a video or two.

Here I am in my toy box, being silly!

At breakfast with Grandpa and Mama, look at my funny face pancake.

I love to build forts out of the couch cushions and blankets.

Mama put me to bed and she came to check on me, I was just doing some light reading.

So handsome I am!

Watching the water at the car wash!

Me on a lazy Saturday morning.  There was snow on the ground for a few hours, but I wasn't interested in going out to play in it.

One of my many silly faces!

Going down the slide at Monkey Joe's!

Maverick the Pirate!  Ahoy!

Riding in the car at Monkey Joe's.

Here I am riding my tricycle.  Don't worry, I am ok. 

Going down the slide at Monkey Joe's!

It's 2015!

Greetings!

Like always, it has been some time since my last post.  We have been pretty busy over the past few months - I am going to post many photos so you can catch up with all of the happenings.
With 2014 in the books, we are looking forward to all of the great adventures 2015 has in store for us. May each of you have a very healthy and happy new year!

There are a lot of photos as it has been a few months!  We had a fun and very busy October, November, and December!

Love,
Mav xo

Visiting the Pumpkin Patch at Walden Farms 

In the hay maze.

On the tractor!

Pumping water with my buddy, Sebastian.

Me and mama posing for a picture, it was a rainy day, but very fun!

Me being silly with my shirt over my head.

My school pictures - 2 1/2 years old.

I dressed up as Nemo for Halloween - here I am at the zoo.

Silly Mama's disguise.

Boo!

Me as Nemo on my Trunk or Treat for school day!

Happy Halloween!

Being goofy in the tub.

Stingray at the Chattanooga Aquarium.

Me, Cannon, and Sayla making our funny faces!

On my new tricycle!

Being silly in the leaves!

Oliver!

In Florida dancing with my Grandma and cousins in the penthouse.

Jumping the ocean waves!

Mama and Amy.

 Aunt Stephanie, Amy, and Mama's selfie on the beach!

Mama and me in the ocean!

Amy jumping!

Amy, Grant, and me playing in the water!

We had so much fun burying my cousins in the sand!

We went out for dinner and saw Snoopy and friends on our walk to the restaurant!

Playing in the ocean with Uncle Steve.

Me and Amy playing in the water!  Every day was so beautiful!

My bubble beard!

On the catamaran with Grandpa Steve, Amy and Mama!

On the beach.

It was a nice vacation to be a beach bum, look at Grandpa Steve sunning himself.

Playing in the swimming pool with Cousin Grant.

Uncle Shae and Cousin Leo!  So handsome.

Mama holding Baby Charlie with Cousin Teddy.  

Welcome to the world - my newest cousin, Introducing Charles Shae Hoschek.  So handsome in every way!  Born 12.13.14.

Making sugar cookies with Grandpa Steve.

Grandpa rolling out the dough.

Christmas morning, Santa Clause came to my house, I must have been nice.

Opening some of my gifts!

One of my favorite gifts, a horsey umbrella from my Great Aunt Sara!