Sleeping Like a ... Baby

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I think that this picture pretty well says it all. Don't you wish you could sleep like this?

The Lesser Known 8th Dwarf...

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During McKenna's birthday party, we were trying to name the 7 dwarfs (or "dorfs" as McKenna chooses to call them). We had Sleepy, Sneezy, Doc, Dopey, Happy, Grumpy, and were trying to name the 7th when Zachary piped in: "Poopy!" - yes. The lesser-known dwarf, Poopy. That's who we were missing. Any wonder why he would have been forgotten?

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The kids were talking in the van the other day and this is the conversation I overheard.

M: When I was at preschool, we went for a walk and saw a HUGE bear. But it was ok. We killed it so we were safe. (funny, I don't remember THAT making the newsletter....huh.)

L: Did you bring it back and eat it? I hear that bear is rather tasty! (and where pray-tell did she hear that. Bear is such a staple in our house....)

M: No. We left it out in the woods for the other animals to eat. You know, the ones that eat bears.

You can check out some more fun kids conversations by clicking on the picture for Tiny Talk Tuesday.

She's Officially Five

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Today was the official big day for McKenna! It's hard to believe that 5 years have gone by so quickly. We watched a lot of our home movies this morning together with Daddy (who stayed home for the special day). It was so much fun seeing the girls so small - and trying to remember that they used to be that small! Where does the time go?



McKenna was princess for the day and chose our breakfast menu (some lovely chocolate covered donuts) and the dinner menu of english muffin pizzas (don't you wish you were at our house?). Since we had the big party on Saturday, I only made cupcakes today and McKenna helped me decorate them with some lovely sugar sprinkles. Sugar, sugar, sugar. Yum!

We started a new (and hopefully we'll continue to remember) tradition of taking a family picture before we opened presents. So here's the well-fed crew waiting to see the presents. Amazingly, the first picture taken was the one that was the best, but of course we didn't know that until 15 pictures later. Some of the other pictures were so worth taking though - just for the look on the birthday girl's face.

After dinner, she was more than happy to open up her presents:

A dollhouse and people from daddy and mommy

A Snow White wig from Grammy

A beautiful Snow White dress from Oma and Opa to complete the ensemble

(and match the cute shoes and tiara from the Fawley family on Saturday!!)

A Monday Giggle...

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Here's a fun video to start your Monday morning off with a laugh (or late Sunday night depending on when you are visiting me). :) A cute clip on parenting.

5th Birthday Party

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Happy Birthday, McKenna!! Although Monday is the "official" day, we celebrated McKenna's 5th birthday today with many of our friends (shhh....don't tell her, but I think the grown-ups even had fun!!). We invited 3 other families over for a total of 14 kids between us all. Sound crazy? It truly didn't seem it at all.

McKenna was so excited to see Charis and Selah (and Reagan) pull up. "They're here! Charis and Selah are here! ... and they have a PRESENT!!" Somehow, the present factor hadn't filtered into her mind with the party idea yet.

As Elias and Micah pulled up, the present recognition was a lot quicker. "Micah and Elias...they brought a present too!"

When the Fawleys all began piling out of their vehicle...ahhh....at last the PRESENT!! :)

But truly, all they all wanted was cake. Lunch hadn't even been served...can we have cake now? Wait five minutes....can we have cake now?

Hot dogs, chips, yogurt (had to have something somewhat "healthy" right?) and macaroni and cheese was the menu for the day. Here are all the kids enjoying lunch.

....clean up...and then present time! McKenna was so excited with the gifts she received. Thank you again to all you lovely mommies!! She got a new Dora umbrella,

a FUN design-her-own purse (with fabric glue and all....hee hee, Leanne!), and a crown and dress up shoes to match the dress she doesn't know she's getting yet. Laurianna wrapped up one of her old stuffed animals to give to McKenna too.

After presents, one must have cake. McKeanna wanted vanilla cake with chocolate frosting - and she wanted the cake to be polka-dotted (so no, the cake isn't sick). I searched hi and lo for Necco wafers so that I didn't have to color and cut out fondant icing. Thank goodness I finally found them.

Overall, such a fun time with the kids and the parents had fun and actually were able to eat and talk too (thank you so much to Katie, Kimberly and Corbin for their help with all the little ones!).

Sibling Love

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Kaleb was giggling and laughing so hard the other morning and I thought the kids were just making funny faces at him. I took a few pictures and only then discovered the true cause of his laughing. They were taking his breakfast (Cheerios), putting one on their tongue and then spitting them out.

Case Exhibit 1:

The Cheerios were flying everywhere. Over his head. Pinging him on his face. And he just laughed and laughed (which of course encouraged them on to do more). I just had to laugh (and sigh). But laugh. Especially as I realized he was still eating his breakfast, and could care less if the Cheerios were in someone's mouth or on the floor - or wherever.

Case exhibit 2: