And so it has begun...

So an interesting thing happened to the Mitchell parents last night. Let me narrate...

After 2 glasses of milk, the milk obsessed smallest Mitchell looked at her Mama and said,

"Sydney have more milk???"

To which Mama Mitchell replied,

"Not until after we eat our dinner"

Then, as Mama sat cruising the internet and Dada was talking in the other room to a friend on the phone, little Sydney uttered these fateful words,

"I go ask Dada for milk."

And that, my friends, is how it all begins. I sat and watched, in utter disbelief, that my recently-turned-2 year old was literally playing us in front of my eyes. The thought process that I saw playing out right before my eyes shocked me. This, my little 2 year old, just realized that if you ask one and they say no, try, try again. Because not being in the conversation with me, Dada definitely filled that cup with milk and sent our little angel on her way. :)

Have a great weekend!!

July 4th Recap

We had a great 4th of July. It was very weird for us to have Wednesday off which broke up the work week into 2 short segments, feeling very much like two Monday/Tuesdays! Nana and Opa ended up coming by for hamburgers, baked beans and french fries. No culinary masterpiece, but hey! it was about relaxing too. Here are some of our pictures from our trip to the Oceanfront!

P.S. we had very little problems with parking and NO traffic to get out...we were awesome-ly lucky!

Sydney very much enjoyed listening to the Michael Jackson tribute artist. He was pretty awesome!



A lot of awesome things have happened at this guy! We love Neptune!

Happy 4th of July!!

Happy Independence Day to Everyone out there! Today we will be having a low key day of water fun outside in the yard and relaxing around the house. Then at 5, Nana and Opa are coming over for dinner and then we are going to brave the crowds at the oceanfront for fireworks. We are very excited. Sydney has never seen 4th of July fireworks before and really never even enjoyed some real time at the beach (we went once last year but she wasnt very interested). So we are pretty excited!

Hope you all have a safe and healthy holiday and remember what this day is all about! Thank you to all of our military members and first responders! Sydney has the utmost respect for you all as well!

2 Years?! Really???

Legit, I can't believe it has been over a month since my last blog. So horrible!! June was pretty epic so do forgive and I promise I will catch you up on all of the happenings from our point of view.

One major event of this month was Sydney's 2nd Birthday! I really can't believe that it has been 2 years since this 8lb 3oz bundle of joy entered our lives. What a bundle of energy she is turning into. I just decided that I will have to devote a different blog to her general persona at this stage in her life. But since she has been terrorizing the house all morning, I am making this blog just strictly about her amazingly awesome Little Mermaid birthday party.

The Decorations

What exactly is going on here guys?

 I made all of the adults play "Give Ariel her seashell." I was not yet brave enough to have a birthday party that included children so we stuck to family and close friends that are family to us!

Present Time! Surprising to me was that Sydney is still not quite sure about how to handle the whole present unwrapping thing. I dont know if its the presents or just the fact that all of the attention was on her and she really doesn't like that, even though I would not describe her as shy...at all. 

This gift was the most creative gift I have ever gotten. That's including any of my presents ever in my life and now Sydney's life too. Bridget and Eric made Sydney a dress up box filled with all of these amazing dress up goodies for us to play with. There was jewelry and both gender play things. It is sooooo awesome. More below on that one too. 

Batman mask

Everyone is looking at what the last present is from Nana and Opa and Sydney is like "What?! What is it?"

Priceless reaction shot, "Holy moly Nana!"

It's a Dora Tricyle!!! Whaaaaaaat?

Awesome cake

Quite a different cake eating face compared to last year. 

Someone is very blessed!

Dress up box!

Since I didn't want to do a kids party, we took a cake to school to share on her actual birthday!!!