cake smash? not quite

I took Reese today to do a little photo shoot with her eating her first birthday cake. I set the cake in front of her and she daintily used her index finger and touched the blue frosting, and then tasted it. She did it 4 or 5 times over a couple of minutes, and finally I took her hand and tried to make her grab the cake. She spent the next few minutes trying to wipe it off her hand, and then decided she was bored with this whole idea and crawled around the side of the cake. It felt like she was telling me that she was too proper or too grown up for all of this nonsense. Once again, my children never want to do anything I want them too.

Raphael the ninja turtle

Sawyer is obsessed with ninja turtles right now. Especially the red guy, Raphael. This all started from him seeing one Lego ad with a ninja turtle set in his Lego magazine. He has never seen a show or a book about them, but he loves them. He knows they fight bad guys and tonight after reading a book about lost children with his papa before bedtime, he told me "this is my uniform (his ninja turtle PJ's) and if any child gets lost I will help find them while I am sleeping." So cute. He currently has ninja turtle bed sheets, PJ's, and finally I found him a costume for Halloween. Easy to find a ninja turtle costume, not so easy to find the red guy. "It has to be the RED guy!" I love my little ninja turtle. I also love that the picture of the ninja stars that one of the turtles fight with on his bed sheets he thinks are snowflakes. He is so innocent and precious at this young age of 3. I wish I could write down everything he says.