Girly girls play cars

We're babysitting cousins Addy and Eli for a week while B & Ali go out of town.  I've quickly realized we do not own any boy toys.  Some friends were sweet enough to pass along some cars, trucks and a ramp to save Eli from having to play ponies, pet shops and dress-up all week.

 The cousins arrive tonight, but I got out the ramp and a box of cars out yesterday.  The girls were so pumped to use them this morning...but I had to laugh.  Our play time went something like this:

The cars all greeted eachother with "Hi friend!  What do you want to do today?"   Then they decided on a picnic at the beach.

Mckinlay paired up all the husbands and wives and put some best friends together too.  

The purple sparkly VW Bug is the fave.  Eliza was toting it around saying "Ohhhh sparkly car!" over and over.

Mckinlay said "I think we're all supposed to be tow trucks -- but really, I have no idea what a tow truck is."

Hopefully Eli doesn't mind playing cars girly style!?  Or maybe he'll teach them how to crash and race?

On a different note, today is this little cutie's 2nd birthday.  

More on that later.

Halloween

 I realize it's Thanksgiving next week, but in case you were wondering, Halloween was awesome.

Soccer

 Saturday we the last game of the season.  

It was a muddy, muddy, cold, but fun, soccer season. 

Here is the team:

There were 2 boys on the team, they just didn't show up to the last game.

Mckinlay loved being on a team with Molly

and LOVED that she got a trophy

...although the juice box is winning out in excitement in this picture.

She has named her trophy, found a special place for it on her shelf and asked me to "come in and look at it at soon as I wake up in the mornings and right before I go to be at night."

Sounds a little obsessive, right?  I think I'll just chalk it up to excitement -- and to the fact that Ty told her it's a big deal because "Mom has never won a trophy for anything before in her WHOLE life!"

Thanks for the reminder Ty...