Birthdays and more!

The last few months have been enjoyed by celebrating birthdays. Claire turned 9 on May 18th and celebrated with a few friends. We had the typical "girl sleepover" with everything from spa treatments to gymnastics. Notice how Claire's hair changes with the pictures. She's now into experimenting with her hair. I think she's really just bored with stick straight hair. The pictures on her cupcake tree are ones she had taken of her dolls. I surprised her with this on her actual birthday, not the sleepover weekend. Posing in Mom's old formal, doesn't quite fit yet.

Claire and a friend at VBS

Brock turned 4 on June 12 and couldn't be happier. This is his shy, yet very excited face at his birthday party at the park. He wanted both Lightning McQueen and Thomas the Train again this year for a cake. It wasn't too hard since he has more than enough characters to pick from. On the 12th he wanted to stay up until his actual birth minute (10:01pm), so we let him. As I was rocking him for bed he said, "Mom, I didn't feel anything happen. I still feel like I'm three." Too cute!

Hope brushing Cookie's hair. One of her favorite pastimes. And yes, she did name her doll Cookie, which is better than the other one who is named Jish.

Brock also got to have a sleepover for his birthday. Cousin Toby and Brock had a great time racing cars, playing farming, and doing art projects. They even stayed up late just chatting in Brock's room. It was so cute standing outside the door listening to them. They are such great buddies.

Brock really hamming it up for his birthday photo shoot. He doesn't quite fit in Daddy's old jersey either.

First Day of Summer Vacation

Claire is officially out of school for the summer! She has been planning for a while now a big trip to Disney with her girls when she got out of school. This, of course, is all in make believe land. She has for months been researching the Disney Parks and what it takes to plan an actual trip. If we ever decide to take a 'real' trip there, we should be all set. This included everything from the airport, airplane, hotel rooms, different Disney rides, etc. To be honest she has more fun planning the event than actually doing it. Partially this is because in her head she has planned her siblings to be part of her play, but in reality they never do what she wants them to do. Here are just a few of the pictures that I thought were too funny from her 'trip to Disney'. This is a couple pictures of her girls (Carly, Sonali, and Kaylee) with CinderellaHere is the progression of Tigger and the girls. It goes from Happy to be Tigger, to take the picture quick, to get these kids off of me!

It's so fun to see your kids playing together and getting along so well!