B-day boy with his sister

Pictures from Bean's 5th birthday--shite! 5 already! He had a small party of 16 kids--and yes, I was joking about the small thing. We invited his





class and I really did not expect everyone to come! It was really nice that they all did and they all seemed to have a lot of fun. It was a dino theme party, with a mini-dino and egg hunt and dino egg excavations (which was a bit of a flop, but also okay at the same time). Will post some more b-day pics ASAP.



I added a few pics from the party. The cake was dinosaur fossil in dirt. I love the one with him and his "wife" Syndey--so much happiness in that picture. :)

Strawberry Pickin'

We went strawberry picking in Marietta on Sunday. It was a cloudy, but warm morning and we were hoping that the rain would hold off (which it did). For some crazy reason--later commitments that day--we all got up and were on the road to Marietta at 7:00 am--yes that is AM on a Sunday morning. But if you read my previous post, you will know that the kids now get up that early, not matter what day it is.

They had this cute sign that we all took pictures will. These are the ones that you tease your kids with when they are older! Some picking shots from that day. Look at how grown up Bean looks. I cannot believe that he will be 5 in few days. And, as for little miss Yaya--the girl LOVES and I mean LOVES strawberries!!!!!!!!!!!! I am not really sure how many she ate in the field, but it would have been enough to make any person have a stomach ache. Oh, no, not her! She ate and ate. Then cried because we had to take her container away to weigh it, then ate more. Really a bit crazy how many she consumed. Covered in strawberry juice and mud all over--yeah, that's what life is all about!

Binky and Big Girl update

Well, just and update on the sleeping habits of a little 2 1/2 year old little girl. She is finally going to bed with a little more ease, but only a little more. One of us needs to lay with her for several songs on the cd and rub her back for a while as she tosses and turns for a spell. Actually though, she asked for the binky only once or twice since they went away, which is pretty good for 2 1/2 and for some one who loved her binkies at night.

Now the problem I seem to be having is that she is getting up between 5 and 6 am every morning. Some mornings I can get her to go back to sleep, tell her I need to get in the shower, lay with her for a bit, those type of things, but HELL I am already awake and cannot really go back to sleep just to get up at 6:15 to get in the shower. If she does sleep a bit longer, and only a bit, she usually ends up standing in front of me in the shower. Just standing there saying hi. That used to be MY time!!! I knew that at least at 6:15 in the morning, I would be the only one up and it would be quiet and I could just chill a bit--or at least take a shower in peace. Well, no longer because now she wants to take a shower with me! I love a really hot shower--really hot--cause it wakes me up and feels really good. It is a big like a sauna. But, not so good for a little girl to have it that hot. So, I have to quickly shower in the really hot water, then freeze a bit when she gets in and stands there for just a little but too long.

I am not really sure if things are getting better with this situation.....................

Some old stuff

Power Ranger mask designed and made by Bean and M. The lights actually light up. Bean showing Yaya a few PR moves! They are too cute in these makes. M and Bean worked really hard on these (well, M did) and put a lot of time and care into making it just right, so smooth--perfect if he could. The one with the lights is the better one, which they both fight over.