My Little Pony… babies?

     Hubby tends to work later than ideal for toddler bed times so when he's stuck in one of his offices and we have the ability to visit or go have dinner with him we do. It just so happens that there is a consignment store a few doors down from one of the offices he utilizes and this is typically the office we meet up with him at since it's closest to restaurants and our house. We're fortunate enough to be able to pick up things every so often and the kids honestly don't care that they used to belong to another little boy or girl.
     Anyway, the last time we headed up to meet up for dinner we found a baby My Little Pony. Big Brother's love of the show apparently was infectious because Froggie gets equally excited when we turn it on. It was love at first sight for Froggie and she cuddled her pony and showed it off to hubby when we got back to his office. She even took it to school the following day, which I don't typically let the kids do but she was so stinking cute I couldn't make her leave it in the car. She carted it around the room taking care of it and showing (and sharing) it off to her friends at school.

rocking her pony

snuggling with Rainbow Dash on the chair

it's love!

A Wild Celebration

    Today we headed out  into the rainy weather to go to a birthday party at the zoo. As you can probably imagine there weren't very many people at the zoo in the downpour and we tried to stay as dry as possible as we walked through the zoo to the party area. We spent a few minutes playing around in the children's area and looking at the animals within the building before we headed into the party room to kick off the celebration. First we walked to the carousel and went for a ride before returning for the rest of the party.

Big Brother had a hard time deciding

Froggie on an otter!

Not so sure about it moving

     We had pizza and saw some animal visitors. The kids really seemed excited about the animals and they didn't bring in anything too exotic (a ferret, hamster and chinchilla) so no one was really fearful of them. Froggie even pet the hamster and chinchilla!

Big Brother petting the ferret

Froggie petting the hamster

Big Brother petting the chinchilla

Froggie got to pet the chinchilla too!

     Then it was time to sing to the birthday girl and have some cake before opening presents.

The Birthday Girl!

She had some help opening her gifts

     On our way out of the zoo we got side tracked by the orangutans who just happen to be an indoor exhibit. Big Brother has always liked to see all the animals so it was nice to be able to go to the zoo and see at least a few animals. Since it was so quiet the orangutans weren't hiding like they normally are and the kids got to play hide and seek with the "baby" orangutan. It was fun to watch them and it was really neat to have some personal interaction with the animals.

Ollie the orangutan

Big  Brother with Ollie

Froggie and Ollie playing Peek-a-boo

Ollie really liked Froggie

     I almost forgot to mention that my sister and her fiancé recently came back from Walt Disney World and had brought home some little things for the kids. Froggie got a new stuffed Rapunzel Doll which she has been playing with and chewing on since she got it. Big Brother got a Lightening McQueen football, some candy, and a picture of my sister and her fiancé with Lightening and Mater at the park for him to hang in his room.
     They went trick or treating while they were down there so Hubby and I inherited a bag full of candy. While digging through the bag looking for something I found a baby peep! I LOVE peeps... I don't necessarily like to eat them but I think they're fun and really cute so I was pretty pumped to find 3 little mini peeps in the bag.

Froggie and her new doll

Big Brother getting his gifts

He loves his new Lightening football!

Our loot

BABY PEEP!

Bag Full of Bargains

     Twice a year there is a huge consignment sale at our local convention center and normally we go opening night to have the best opportunity to get what we may be looking for. They let the event volunteers shop an hour and a half before the doors open to the public are able to shop. This year they let military in half an hour before the sale started so we were able to get in and get a jump start on our searching - which is amazing since toting a 6 month old and a 2 year old through that kind of event once EVERYONE is through the doors gets tough!

The sale before the doors opened to everyone

The other side of the room

     We went in seeking cloth diapers, a toy for each kid, nursing covers, a few outfits and whatever other good deals we came across. There was a TON of stuff, most of which I would have loved to get for the kids but was not truly necessary. Hubby and Big Brother walked on one side of the table while Froggie and I walked on the other looking through the toys and baby supplies. Big Brother got a bag full of mini Cars (19 of them for $6! He has been carrying them around since we found the bag!). We then snagged a Little Tykes baby doll stroller for froggie to cart her baby dolls around in once she starts walking in a few months. I found a nice "new" nursing cover, a Taggies book and a Cars quilt for Big Brother. We struck out finding any cloth diapers but I think overall we got some great deals and a lot of fun stuff!

Racing his cars to our car!

The 19 new mini Cars

Nursing cover

Froggie Princess gloves and Taggies book

Big Brother's new quilt

Froggie's new shoes!

Froggie's Baby

     First, here is some Froggie cuteness from work today.

Looking in the mirror

Snoozing Froggie

     Froggie got her first baby doll today! We had some time to waste while we waited for Hubby to get out of work to go see his parents this evening. So we went to a local consignment shop after we got out of work and I decided to pick up a toy for each of the kids (Big Brother had gone on the potty at school again and Froggie was just cute). Big Brother picked out some Cars that are legos so he's super excited about his lego cars! Froggie got a Disney Princess Baby doll (Snow White) which is adorable.
     She seems to be intrigued by her doll and it's pretty funny to watch her play with it. I think we will be getting her some more of these as we come across them (I may have to head back to the consignment shop and see if they have any others - can't beat a $2.50 doll!).

Checking out her new doll

She was pretty interested in her

Happy Froggie!

     She snuggled with her dolly the whole way home and was sleeping and holding her hand when we got out of the car.

Snuggling with Snow White