Thursday, November 13, 2008

My little shoe bandit...


It is becoming obvious Lauren Claire loves shoes. Even shoes that are not hers.

Whenever we go to a store, we avoid walking by the shoe isle because she will immediately recognize the shoes and want to buy a pair. If we go by the shoe isle without buying her a pair, we risk a colossal temper tantrum because she did not get a new pair of shoes. She is only 18 months old and already has 5 pairs. She really only wears one pair on a regular basis though, they are pink Princess shoes.

Lauren has a preference for pink shoes, and she sure is her fathers little Princess. It is very difficult to say no to a new pair of shoes for my little princess.
When we take Lauren to the indoor park at Jordan Creek Mall she goes around the park and picks up other kids shoes and tries them on. We have to watch her closely so she does not do this.

Tonight when I came home from work, she was walking around the kitchen with one of Brayton's shoes on. Several times each day, she will walk over to where ever there are shoes sitting around and put her feet into them.

Tonight, after changing out of my work clothes, I came downstairs to Lauren putting her feet into my black work shoes. I couldn't resist the photo opportunity, so I helped her get both feet into my shoes and snapped this photo of my very smiley little princess.

The Making of a Birthday Cake...

Saturday, November 8th was Brayton's 3rd birthday.

All our families showed up for the party. Grandma & Grandpa Anderson, Grandma & Grandpa Loots, Grandma and Grandpa Hansen, Uncle Ryan and Maria, Aunt Audra and Uncle Matt, Uncle Dustin and Aunt Kristin and Ella. We had a great time. Colette prepared a good meal of Made Rites, cheesy corn, fruit salad and birthday cake. Afterward, Brayton got to open all his gifts and had a great time playing and celebrating his 3rd birthday.

The birthday cake, was artfully created by Colette. She went to the Urbandale Library where they have specialized cake pans you can check out. Brayton selected a dinosaur cake, after carefully considering over 100 different pans. Colette said that it came down to the dinosaur and Elmo, but in the end the dinosaur won out.

After baking the cake, Colette spent about 3 hours diligently decorating Brayton's birthday cake and was up until well after 11pm that evening putting the finishing touches on it. I think she did an outstanding job, and it tasted pretty good too.