Jonathan's Birthday Week-Day 3

Our family started our day Tuesday morning with a Pancake Birthday Party! Jonathan and I were planning on leaving later that morning for his business trip to Indianapolis, so this was our chance to spend quality birthday time with the girls. The night before, the girls and I picked up a special present for Daddy. He now has a new 4-cup coffee maker. Previously he was making his coffee in a one-mug maker because I was hesitant for him to have a big one that wouldn't get used much. Yes, I'm the bad guy! I didn't want a big thing to clutter up my cabinets more than they already are. I also confess that I was hoping his love of coffee wouldn't last long. You see, Jonathan made it through years of college and even Seminary WITHOUT coffee and then decided to start drinking it when we moved back to Arkansas. ????? I really thought maybe it was just a phase, but then gave in and got him this for his birthday.

My little artist, Addie Leigh, decorated the card for us. I knew her daddy would love it, not only because of the beautiful art, but it was not $4.00! We need to work with her on keeping her letters straight. :)

Jonathan's Birthday week- Day 1

Today Jonathan is able to work from home. The girls and I are very excited that we will get some quality "Daddy time." Today we plan to do some fun things around the house with the girls. Tomorrow through Thursday I will be traveling with Jonathan to a conference in Indianapolis. The girls are going to spend some fun time with their grandmothers while we are gone.



We plan to celebrate this week what a wonderful friend, husband, and daddy Jonathan is. God has blessed us so much by giving us Jonathan. He points us to Christ daily with his love, patience, thirst for knowledge and kindness.







Happy Birthday Week Baby!

Happy Birthday to my Boys!

This past weekend we celebrated the birthdays of our nephews, Ty and Cade. The party was a blast! There were plenty of laughs and great food. My brother-in-law, DeWayne makes the BEST BURGERS!! My sister Aimee was brave enough to let me practice up on my cake decorating skills and experiment on a new cake. Ty and Cade love airplanes, so we thought that would be an appropriate theme for their cake.

Ty is such a super big brother! He was the only grandchild/nephew for five years, so he got lots of lovin' and attention.

Then his brother Cade came along three weeks after Addie Leigh.

Now he does a great job sharing his birthday parties with his little brother Cade. Ty's birthday is the 11th and Cade's is the 16th, so a joint party just makes sense.

The cousins play well together. Ty is great with the girls and has been since they were little babies. Cade and Addie love to play together. I'm hoping they will stay buddies through the years since they are so close in age. We are so thankful that Addie Leigh and Piper have their cousins close by. Happy birthday boys!!

Yum! Can we eat it now? ( You think that is what he's thinking, but really the only sweets he likes are oatmeal creme pies. He didn't even try the cake. :))

Jonathan helped me out a lot with this cake. He set the pillars for me, he made the windshield and even made goggles for the pilot!!! Thanks babe!

Birthday Week-Day 4

Well, we have been battling the stomach bug at the Baird home, so that leaves little time for blogging. I left off on Addie Leigh's birthday week day 3, where Addie spent her time at home feeling ill. Even though she was feeling better the next day we limited out special activities. We still did some of Addie Leigh's favorites.


We had a special outing to one of Addie Leigh's favorite shopping spots. Yes...WAL-MART!!! She loves seeing all the people and going up and down the aisles looking at every little thing. I love how children are so easily pleased!


When we left Wal-Mart we made a stop at America's favorite drive-in because it was our favorite time of the day. 2pm-4pm has become a very special time for our family because we love a great Sonic drink and we love a good sale!!!

Birthday Week-Day 3

Please don't expect two posts everyday! I'm not sure you will even get one a week. But I wanted to continue talking about our birthday week for Addie Leigh. Today we were going to take her to my grandparents to see the horses and play outside, but unfortunately my little girl is not feeling well. So, we had to settle for an extra dose of her favorite program, Charlie and Lola. Hopefully she will feel better tomorrow and we can continue with our special activities for the rest of the week.

Busy Birthday Week- Day 1 & 2

Birthdays are a big deal in the Baird home. We love to take a whole week to make the birthday person feel loved and special. This week is our oldest daughter's birthday week. Addie Leigh will be 3 years old on the 25th! We have a special activity planned for each day. On Monday, she was treated to a special trip to her Nonnie's house without her sister, Piper. Normally Addie Leigh has to share my mom with her sister and her other cousins, but she stayed at Nonnie's house over night by herself. They did some of Addie Leigh's favorites, like reading books and building with blocks. She really enjoyed her special time with her Nonnie.

It also worked out good for Jonathan and me, because Tuesday we had to take Piper to the Surgery Center in Texarkana for tubes. Our appointment was at 6:30am, so we had to leave our house at 5am!

My little Piper was a trooper that day. She wasn't able to have anything to eat or drink before the surgery so she was a little cranky. She also hated the I.D. bracelet they put on her ankle. I think that was the worst part of the whole experience. :) She was in and out in no time and then we treated her to a wonderful breakfast where she surprisingly ate almost 2 pancakes, some scrambled eggs and hash browns!

Daddy & Piper before the surgery

The torture device!

Piper & her lovey, Pink Monkey

Isn't she cute in her little gown???