Holiday « BenAnnabel

Annabel’s Birthday Dinner

We had a dinner party for Annabel’s birthday – spaghetti and meatballs, garlic bread and icecream cake – what more could a girl ask for?

I made Annabel a special card. She had a lot of help opening her presents.

Haute couture for both Audrey and Annabel: my sister’s dress was hand-made by our friend Kay, Audrey’s by her Grandma. It’s hard to look this good.

We’re best friends!

05/17/2010 Posted by benbbillings | Holiday, Me and my friends, Milestones | 5 Comments

Dance Party

Everyone was tremendously happy with the fantastic dance party that I hosted! I told everyone all day that I wasn’t actually 4 until I blew out my candles and everyone sang to me.

Click here for the whole album or just check out the highlights below:

We’re anxiously awaiting our guests. The cake was ready:

From Ben turns 4

The favors:

From Ben turns 4

DJ Daddy:

From Ben turns 4

And the main dancers – Breakin’ Benny B and Lil’ A:

From Ben turns 4

We danced the limbo, the conga and everyone had a great time!

From Ben turns 4

I was so proud of my friends for not getting too crazy, we all ate our dinner, colored and enjoyed the cake too!

From Ben turns 4

I’m so lucky to have such good friends (and thanks to the other grown-ups who helped my parents pull it off)

From Ben turns 4

04/10/2010 Posted by benbbillings | Family matters, Holiday, Me and my friends, Milestones, My favorite pics of me, Ridiculous things I say | 7 Comments

Hoppy Easter!

Annabel’s 1st Easter was a lot of fun! Grandma and Jidi were in town and our cousins and friends came over for an Easter Egg hunt.

Here are some of the highlights – if you want the whole lot of pictures, click through to see the whole album:

From Easter 2010

The Easter Bunny put new crocs in my basket:

From Easter 2010

It’s hard to get a good picture of me and my sister. Here she is in her Easter dress – made by our friend, Kay Evans. She ended up matching Audrey in their yellow dresses and white sweaters. CUTE.

From Easter 2010

Here are our cousins – Max, Klara and Leo (they are our 3rd cousins – for those of you Atchitys who want to know the connection: these are Kristen Atchity Fristch’s kids, and she is the daughter of Mike Atchity – my Jidi’s 1st cousin.) We lucked out that they happen to live in Seattle!

From Easter 2010

Say cheese!

From Easter 2010

We had so much fun hunting for the eggs Max hid in the front yard – we hid them all over our house. Mom and Dad are finding eggs in some pretty tricky spots. There are still a few suspected missing eggs. Eventually, they’ll start to smell and then we can find them.

04/05/2010 Posted by benbbillings | Family matters, Holiday, Me and my friends, My baby sister | 3 Comments

More Ben singing

As we wait for the Easter Bunny – my preschool learned “little bunny fufu” in Spanish.

(and I’m wearing my painting mask and homedepot apron)

03/18/2010 Posted by benbbillings | Holiday, Ridiculous things I say, Videos | 2 Comments

Happy Valentine’s Day

02/15/2010 Posted by benbbillings | Holiday, Milestones | 5 Comments

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Another video of me. Here is Frosty the Snowman (in Spanish) and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

12/21/2009 Posted by benbbillings | Holiday, Videos | 1 Comment

Santa meets Annabel

We saw Santa and I told him how I made these reindeer antlers at school just in time to see him! He loved them of course. Annabel was fascinated by his beard and kept tickling him.

For Christmas I requested an R2D2 and said Santa could just make something up for Annabel. I trust his judgement.

12/10/2009 Posted by benbbillings | Holiday, My baby sister, Ridiculous things I say | 6 Comments

Thanksgiving and cousins

We had an excellent Thanksgiving – a week at Grandma and Jidi’s in the sunshine of Palm Desert – and we needed it!

Lots of family joined us, and most of all I had fun wih my cousins Anthony and Katy and Gabe (an honorary cousin).
Life in the desert, is pretty nice.
We swim: