Random Happenings

I think I'm mostly caught up with the exciting (and the not so) stuff. Here are just a few other moments we enjoyed.

Grandpa B. bought Sophie her first hunting apparel!



Daphne had her first season of soccer (Sophie thinks she did too!)



Grandma M. introduced us to Rescue Pets and the Mars Cheese Castle, where they have the best squeaky cheese (I'm kind of ashamed that I've never been there).





Daphne and I milked a cow. Green Meadows Farm is an excellent place to let kids touch just about every kind of farm animal you can imagine.





Grandma M. made a pipe cleaner farm with Daphne.



Sophie wanted her hair curled.



And voila, I'm as caught up as I'll ever probably be!

Our Little Graduate

Daphne graduated Kindergarten. Her favorite subject was art. But she likes everything. You'll notice she has flowers. After the recital, it was required that flowers be at any big occasion.

Sophie Loves Her Birthday

I know I've said it over and over, but I just cannot believe how my babies are getting bigger.

Sophie is 2 now. Instead of going to see the mouse, we stayed home and had our family over for dinner and cake. Sophie loved her cake! To be honest, everyone loved her cake. It was a fabulous buttermilk cake with Swiss meringue buttercream frosting... to die for!



Here are all four of the cutie patooties.

Dance Your Pants Off

Daphne had her first recital in June. It was a LONG day. But Daphne was thrilled and she did a wonderful job dancing her dance and behaving when she wasn't dancing.

She was very excited and felt very sophisticated when she received flowers to take on stage for the finale.

It was fun to see some of her church friends do their darling dances too. Watch out world; Lidercas, Abi, and Daphne are a dance force to be reckoned with!

Happy Birthday Daffodil

It seems like every year we go to Chuck E. Cheese's every month for 4 months straight. Oh yeah, that's right, we do. Why? Because April-July is the time period when each of the girls (my 2 and my sister's 2) has their birthday; one each month.

Here are some of the celebrations from Daphne's 6th Birthday. How did she ever turn 6? Have I been here the whole time? It doesn't seem possible. Although, sometimes you'd think she's at least 14!

Here's Phoebe on her favorite ride.



Here are the men doing their favorite thing.



Sophie split her time between the ski ball and the horse.





Daphne and Chloe recently became obsessed with this thing that takes your picture and then prints out an id card with your photo on it. The cards are different... I think we have a professional soccer player, a princess, a diva, an animal rescuer... I can't even remember them all!



The funniest part of the party for me was when Chuck E. himself came over to visit the birthday girl.

We see here Chuck E. with Chloe, Phoebe, Sophie, and Grandpa.



Where IS the birthday girl?



She's under the table, hiding from that freaky mouse!

Hot Potato

Sophie is quite the pretender. I love it.

I would like to introduce you to Sophie Potato Head.





She got a Mrs. Potato Head for Christmas and she just up and decided that she would also like to have removable and exchangable parts. Here she is using her reading glasses!

Tooth or Dare

A very exciting thing happened in December. My Daffodil lost her first tooth! This is such a funny picture of her. The new tooth was already waiting and ready when the baby tooth fell out. Daphne had been sitting on her couch on my floor watching tv and then she jumped up and said, "I just ripped my tooth out!"



She lost her other middle bottom tooth and then her top tooth started to get wiggly. For a little while, she was Snaggle-Tooth Daphne. I'm sure there's something wrong with giving your kid a nickname like that but sadly enough, that is what we called her for about a week.



Then, all of a sudden, both her top teeth were gone.



All in all, Daphne has lost 5 teeth now and the 6th one is going to be gone any day. And a crazy thing happened yesterday. Daphne realized the tooth fairy has been stashing her teeth in my jewelry box. What kind of a tooth fairy does that? I'm not sure. I guess tooth fairies don't learn about other people's privacy. Daphne knows it's because that silly fairy is living in my jewelry box but we never see her because she hides in the basement when we're awake. We've decided to wrap the teeth in a pretty little sachet so the fairy gets the idea to move out.

Then Daphne and I had a talk about never going in my jewelry box again.

Where Has My Baby Gone?

It's crazy that I've skipped blogging for a few months and all of a sudden my kids are grown up. So this is a reminder that Sophie was so little last year (because I forgot!).

This is a picture of her just being cuddly and cute.



This is Sophie hanging out in the salad bar stool. And drooling. With NO TEETH. Still, I can't believe that was such a short time ago. I don't know why, but she loved to get under the stool. Every time though she would get stuck and scream for help.



This is her being so proud of herself for pooping... ah, I miss those days. If only it were so easy now! She'll kill me when she's older for this so maybe I'll delete it. Later. Maybe.



Here's my little Snow Pea 'helping' me do the dishes.



Here she is looking out the window... she loves to see what's going on outside. She can't actually do that anymore because we moved the couch.



I love this picture. This was taken shortly after Sophie got big enough to move into a forward facing seat. She still loved her baby seat. One day while I was busy (playing on the computer) she crawled into her baby seat and took a nap. I thought it was so cute and a little sad.



I'll probably add more pictures of her in following posts because she's grown a ton and done lots of silly things. I just got side tracked looking over old photos and thought I'd share my sweet little baby. Who is now a toddler.

Winter Wonderland

It snowed last winter and we made a snowman... I know, not necessarily blog-worthy but we had a lot of fun and it was Daphne's first snowman, at our first house. She really handled the winter better than I thought she would. And better than I did!

It's Been A While

So, I am officially the world's worst blogger. Part of my problem is that nothing too exciting goes on! Part of my problem is that I'm lazy. But here are some highlights that you might have missed over the past few months.