Easter

I had a great Easter weekend! Mom, Dad, Marlie and I headed to Harpers. On Saturday we went to an Eater Egg hunt. My little cousin/friend, Kaylee came too. She tried to steal some of my eggs out of my bucket. I didn't mind though, there were plenty more for me to find.

That night I had a lot of fun when we went bowling with The Reisers, Grandpa and Grandma Dahlstrom and the Ranzenbergers. Kaylee and I had a lot of fun bowling. After bowling we went out for supper then to Curt and Peggy's house and I got to play with all the toys there. I love going to their house! Peggy let me bring home Buzz Lightyear from her house since I was having so much fun playing with it.

On Sunday I woke up and the Easter Bunny had been to Granny's and filled my Easter basket!

We went to Great Grandma and Grandpa Cota's house for lunch. We had an Easter Egg hunt there and for Dylan, Kayla, Blaine and I. I found a lot of eggs. Then we went to my Great Aunt and Uncle, Elinor and Dan's house for the Dahlstrom Easter. We had an an Egg Hunt there too, as well as an Easter bag hunt. I got a lot of goodies in my Easter bag.

I was so tired out from all of the fun!

Here are some more pics from my big weekend!


Not sure if this was a happy dance or a mad dance. :)

Showing off his bowling shoes.

Kaylee and Cohen with their bowling balls.

Enjoying a chocolate covered Peep.


Daddy, Grandpa Cota and Cohen found an egg!


Daddy and Cohen hunting Easter Eggs at
Great Grandma and Grandpa Cota's house.

Marlie checking out what's in her Easter Basket.

A new friend....

My buddy, Parker got a baby sister on April 21 and I got a new little friend. Her name is Isabella "Bella" Holtan. Parker got to come stay at our house while his Mom and Dad went to the hospital to have Bella. He got to stay two nights and we had a lot of fun! We played really well together and got to decorate Easter Eggs.

I am THREE!!

A couple days ago I celebrated my third birthday! I had a great day. Mom and Dad had balloons tied out in the hallway so I'd see them as soon as I opened my door in the morning. Once I got up, I came out and Mom and Dad had a present all set up for me to play with. It was just what I asked for. Race cars and a track from the Disney movie, "Cars". I have been having so much fun playing with it.

Mom made me a special breakfast of 'birthday balloon pancakes'. Pancakes are one of my favorites anyway. After breakfast we got ready and headed to a 'fun place' called Jumpin' Janes in Dubuque. They had a bunch of inflatable slides and bouncy things to play on. It was an interesting drive down there for Mom and Dad. (Well Dad mostly since he was driving). It was raining VERY, VERY hard it was hard to see and we were low on gas. Thankfully we made it to the gas station with no problems. :) After a couple hours of playing and some lunch we headed back home.

Once we got back to the house it was pretty cold in there. Mom and Dad realized our furnace was broke so they had to make some calls and get that taken care of before we headed off to my next celebration at The Playstation in Cedar Rapids. A guy came quickly and fixed it and we made it to my celebration on time.

Sophie, Preston, Layla, Jesse, Christine, Parker, Uncle Dolly, Kari, Grandpa and Grandma Dahlstrom and Mom and Dad helped me celebrate. We had pizza, cake, presents and FUN!!

My party isn't for another week. That's when I get to celebrate with a lot more of my favorite people. So far being three is treating me pretty well! I don't have my 3 year check up until May 5. Once I do that I'll update ya with my stats. :)

Oh and guess what - on my birthday we didn't get any snow at our house but where Granny and Grandpa and Grandma Cota live, they got around 4 inches and then got some more the next day. CRAZY!!!

Here are some more pictures from my birthday!|

Trying to wake up enough to see my present from Mommy and Daddy.

Racetrack and race cars from "Cars" movie.

Cake Mommy made.

Trying to stay awake while Daddy lights the candles.

Layla, Cohen and Parker checking out Cohen's
Thomas the Train mountain from Uncle Brent and Kari.

Parker, Cohen and Layla at The Playstation

Uncle Brent and Cohen after playing in the bouncy area.

Cohen, Parker and the dads.

Marlie, Mommy and Cohen before the birthday boy heads to bed.

Weekend of celebrating....

Saturday I had a very fun day celebrating two of my friends' third birthday. Friday Mom and I headed to Harpers to spend the night at Granny's. I got to play at the park and that was so fun!

Saturday we got up and got ready to go to my cousin/friend Devon's third birthday party. I got to see Devon, her mom, dad, sister Hadyn, Great Grandpa and Grandma Jones, Granny, Sophie, Preston, Layla, Dayton, Stacia and Harrison. At the party we played pin the tail on the donkey. I had never played that before. Tonya put the blindfold on me and I said, "I can't see!!" I still had to try and stick the tail on. I did ok for my first time. Then my favorite part....CAKE!!

After the party Mom and I headed back home to get rested up to go celebrate Parker's third birthday. I had a big long nap. We were planning on going bowling but there was a tournament at the bowling alley so we couldn't get in until much later than planned. Instead we went to a really fun place called The Playstation. When we walked in and I saw the tube/tunnels, slides etc I gasped and said, "What is that called?" We played and played, had pizza and cake, it was pretty much the perfect day!






Today was a very nice day and we spent most of the day outside playing baseball, football, golf and drawing with sidewalk chalk. Makes me excited for summer!

Light reading....

Today we had to take Marlie to the "doggie doctor" for her 5 year check up. We were pretty much ready to go and Mom said, "ok, let's go". I told her, "just wait" and I went down stairs. She was getting a little upset with me because I wasn't supposed to go back downstairs - we had to leave. But I quickly went down and came right back up with the insert for the Kinect Sports video game (the bowling, boxing, track/field etc...) that I have been playing. I wanted to bring it along. She said that was fine.

We got to the vet clinic, they took us in our room, I hopped up on my chair and did some 'light reading' while I waited for Marlie's appointment to be done.

Super fun day...

I had a great day yesterday! It started off by Grandpa Cota coming to visit in the morning. Then a trip to the grocery store where I was so sleepy I was nodding off in the cart - mom has never seen me do that since I've been able to sit up on my own. So to keep me awake she let me pick out a cookie from the bakery - it was so yummy! It had a puppy face frosted on it.

After we got home I took a nap. While I was napping Parker came over to visit. His mommy had a Dr. appt. so he was hanging out with us. We played and had cupcakes he brought us.

Then, last night Uncle Dolly and Kari came to visit! We had dinner at our house, played Kinect Sports, and played with my little bowling set. I was tired last night!

My first wedding dance...

Mom's cousin, Casey and his wife Vanessa got married in November in Hawaii but recently had a celebration in Waterloo. It was my first wedding dance. While I didn't really do much dancing I did have a lot of fun running up and down the dance floor with some of my extended family who are about my same age; Layla, Devon, Harper and Gaitlin. Oh....and the very best part - there was CAKE!

I love cake!

Devon and I. She was trying to get me to dance but I wasn't having that. :)

Taking a break from running - hangin' with Dad.