LEGO Kids Fest!

We had SO much fun at Atlanta Lego KidsFest! Nathan was very excited to go to a Lego party. They had lots of fun things to do.

We got to meet Emmet and Wild Style.

AJ loved the Lego Batman

Emmet

Lightning McQueen

Buzz and Woody

Nathan liked the Lone Ranger Wild West

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Lionel from The World of Chima

Nathan and Emmet

 A giant pile of Lego to build and climb on.

We built our own Lego race cars.

They also had a large pile of Duplo blocks to play with/on.

Tessa loved playing with the Princess blocks

We invited grandma Rygmyr to come with us and celebrate her birthday.

The kids got lots of free Lego to build.

They had a USA build.

Mommy made Idaho

Nathan built a battleship

AJ built...this.

And David built, this.

We had them put them in Idaho.

We spent a LOT of time in Lego City!

Showing grandma all the awesome Lego sets

with Cinderella

Being so cute is hard work

Ninjago "spinjitsu" battles

Our awesome Lego sets we picked out!

We had such a fun time! We would definitely go do that again!

The Grand Hotel

Tessa's birthday!

HAPPY HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY TESSA!

On Tuesday (June 10th) we celebrated Tessa's birthday with a cupcake, ice cream and a present or two. Tess was very skeptical about the cupcake until David got a spoonful of icing for her on it, then she loved it.

After her post cupcake bath, mommy got her dressed (and didn't do a very good job of that, the "x" is supposed to go in the back of the outfit) and did her hair in her first pigtails. They were adorable on her!

On Saturday we had Tessa's birthday party. Aunt Bonnie and cousin Zoey came over Friday night and helped us decorate on Saturday. Our house looked SO cute with pink everywhere.

A game of Hungry Hungry Hippos before the party

Aunt Kristin & Tessa

Atkins & Tessa (Tessa thinks he is hilarious, she laughs almost every time he laughs)

Tess had lots of help opening her presents.

She got a doll, princess castle, Minnie Mouse airplane, some clothes and her first purse.

SO cute!

Her pull-apart cupcake cake

Her smash cake

Loving it! (and the attention too!)

Just before her bath

Playing princesses with Zoey

Tessa & Aunt Caitlin

Playing with grandma Rygmyr & Zoey

Tessa,
It is so hard for me to believe that you are one already! This year has gone by so quickly and you have grown so much. I love your sweet personality. You are so full of BIG smiles! You love your family so much, and your family loves you so much too. Nathan is so eager to help you learn new skills, like crawling and walking- he likes teaching you. Anderson loves to watch you master the new skills Nathan has taught you, he is always pointing out your successes. They both love you so much.
I don't have words to express how much I love being your mommy. Raising a daughter is so different than raising son's. You have melted my heart with your smiles and your snuggles. I love you so SO much!

Nathan lost a tooth!

On the last day of school, Nathan came home with a loose tooth. For the last three weeks it has continued to wiggle. Well tonight that all changed! Grandpa Rygmyr was over and he and Nate were playing, then Nathan stopped and came to show me it was bleeding. I had him get a paper towel for the blood. I asked him if I could see it, so I wiggled it and it was really loose so I pulled it a little and out it came! We were both shocked! Nate cried and I tried not to freak out. He was crying because it was bleeding and "now I don't have a tooth"!

The tooth next it it is wiggling too, in another few weeks we will have to go through all this again. We had asked Nathan what the "tooth fairy" brings, to see what his expectation was. He was under the impression that he would get a gold coin. Uhhh.... So being the genius that I am, I went to the bank and got a roll of Sacajawea/presidential dollars and put it in his shark "tooth fairy pillow".

He loved it in the morning, he was super excited about his gold coin.

Nathan's swim lessons

We signed Nathan up for two weeks of swim lessons a your YMCA. The first day, was a big fail! He didn't get in the water at all-he just sat on the side of the pool shivering. After the lesson was over, I went into the pool area and told his teacher that she just needed to get him into the water and make him do all the things they were doing. The next day went SO much better. He got in the water and had a lot of fun. He did pretty good, he still can't swim by himself, but he gained confidence in the water and had a blast! It was worth it!