Will's Birthday! SIX!

Our tradition is favorite cereal for birthday breakfast. His favorite is Rice Krispies, and so when I saw frosted and treat ones I knew we'd hit the jackpot! (the treat ones were really, really good ha!)

He wanted blue icing. I offered to make a captain America shield, but he only wanted blue icing and the toy on top!

SIX!

Will is in Kindergarten, he loves Captain America (Batman second) and sharks and blue (with red currying favor lately) and lots of dragon and dinosaurs. His favorite part of school is writing. He loves soccer because he is such a good kicker (his words, but he really is ha ha). He is starting to read and write and he REALLY loves his little Beanie Boo stuffed animals and they play a part in all of his games and imaginings. Currently he is reconstructing a Pringle container to be a home for his owl. Good times. 

Will is also super strong--he can scooter and ride his bike incredibly fast to and from school. He is getting to be quite good at jump roping because Ruth is obsessed. He is the GREATEST helper with baby Grace--he likes to help change diapers and pick out her outfits and hold her and rock her. He is a great laundry-folder because he does it better than anyone in our whole family! He also gives incredible hugs and likes to cuddle while we read books.

LEGOS! He loves loves loves legos.

Remote control car

The Biggest Bear and Andy and the Lion are his new favorite books. These hit his age-range perfectly!

His birthday was on a Saturday so we got to go to Home Depot in the morning and make the craft, which is one of his favorite things, and then we went to a Manatee Festival in the afternoon. It was beautiful and we had a great time!

We saw a LOT of manatees. They call it Manatee Lagoon because there is a power plant right there that puts off warm water, and because of that the manatees all congregate there in the winter time when the ocean gets a little colder. We want to go back now because we only saw them for a few minutes before they closed, but it was really, really awesome.

I think it's safe to say that we had a perfect birthday Saturday. And we are so, so happy that Will is a part of our family. He is smart and good and the best 6 year old boy around!

Jan 19th-end of January

I can't get over the newborn sweetness. Why is it such a tiny, fleeting stage?! Grace is absolute perfection. She is soft and warm and beautiful and sweet and smells like that newborn breath and baby lotion. 

Molly looks sooooo gorgeous! That reminds me that this morning while I was folding laundry and Molly was helping me (because it is my birthday and she wanted to help me, sweet thing) I said "Gracie is sooooo cute." and she said "Yeah. Gracie is cute. But not me. I don't like cute." and so I asked her what she liked to be called and she says "Beautiful and gorrrrrrgeous." Haha!

K, I adore her. She is extra sassy lately, but she is also extra sweet!

That cut on his chin has been there for almost two months now. He hit it on the table top when he was climbing off of it one day and he will not leave it alone. It's going to scar forever. He would wake up and have blood on his sheets because he picked at it in bed and he got it all over three shirts and stained. Sigh. But ADORABLY, every time he meets someone (park, grocery store, etc.) he waves and then points to his chin, to get some sympathy. And ever since, when he scrapes a knee or falls, he points to his new hurt for a kiss and then again to his chin for a kiss. Haha!

6 weeks old!

Helping mommy cook by pulling out cinnamon sticks and putting them back into the container 100x while I cook.

We got her pictures taken in my blessing dress. She was six weeks just like I was when the pictures of me were taken. They turned out gorgeous and I was so happy with the photographer--she was so quick and awesome!

Sterling didn't understand the crown, but they had it at JCP and I want to make a frame that says Daughter of a King.

I just want to hold her constantly.

I took Will out of school and on a date to Dunkin' Donuts before his birthday. It was awesome. We looked up killer whales on my phone to see what they ate and talked about dragons a lot.

This was a different morning when I took Russ to Dunkin'. Ha. 

How did my little baby boy get such big paws?

Poor baby keeps getting heat rash from being against me while nursing. Even in January, Florida is hot.

She wore that dress to school and it just made me so happy. She loves Elena and she loves that dress and she is so happy just pleasing herself! Love!

Ice cream as an after school snack!

Crazy kid.

I love my family.

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE this.

Haha, goofy smile.

Hangin' out while waiting for the kids to walk out from school.

Her big yellow bow and stretchy arms!

Piano is hard sometimes.

Look at that rockstar big brother who can practice reading and hold the baby at the same time!

Marlowe sent us a Christmas gift and we tried it out. It was a ton of fun!

Will is super sweet. But I laugh every time I see this because his basketball shorts are pushed up and it looks like he doesn't have any pants on! Ha!

Apparently we have two of those books so Ruth was reading it and then she'd tell Molly when to turn the page. Funny girls.

On a rainy Saturday afternoon we checked out this Pinball Museum in downtown Delray Beach.  I had heard you could play some of the games and that it was pretty fun. You can play ALL of the games, you don't have to insert coins because you just pay a fee to get in, kids 6 and under were free (all but Ruthie) and they provided stools for "Little Pinball Masters" to carry around and use!!! It was such an awesome activity! It was so cute to see Molly and Will lug their stool over to a new game and stand up on it to play. I've actually never really played pinball machines before but I had a great time. They had a game (very similar to the game that the mini basketballs come down and you keep shooting them into three different hoops) that was built in 1909 and restored for this museum! Every single game was a working antique! Anyway, it was such a fun find and Sterling was in love and wants to go back without the kids soon!

The paper above the machine talks about when it was made and stuff.

A dress I wore!

Helping me make Rice Krispies. 

So much hair.

Russ slammed Ruthie's finger in the door. And then she did it herself the next morning. SOOOOOO sad. I felt so bad for her. 

I love our walks to and from school every day!

Blogger is weird and all of these pictures are jumbled, but this was also from Will's date to Dunkin' with me--frozen hot chocolate!