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.