Allison's 5th Birthday

I realize that this is long overdue since Allison's birthday was back on December 25th, but I am going to try and go back and put up some pictures that I have missed since I had quit blogging for so long.  

 Here she is standing in front of her bedroom door that we always decorate with streamers.

 Brooke made her birthday cake, although it is actually homemade frosted chocolate syrup brownies.  A favorite around this house!

 Blow out the candles!

 She was really excited about her new Cinderella doll.

 But she was really surprised about her new Elephant and Piggie book that come with Elephant and Piggie stuffed animals!

I think she had a really nice birthday this year.  As she is getting older and able to stay up later it is more fun for her to get to open even more presents on Christmas night.  When she was younger she could hardly stay awake and was usually tired of opening gifts by evening.  Now she thinks it is great that she gets even more presents than everyone else!

Tea Party

Grace made mini loaves of banana bread today and we decided to let the little girls have a tea party.  Grace got things set up for them at the table.

Emily helped the girls get dressed up for the party.

Grace served up the tea which was actually apple juice.

Here is Lydia enjoying her tea.

Sophia is very lady-like with her pinky finger pointed out.

Allison just wanted to show off the bear on the teacup.

Just Thoughtful

Emily has a new blog.  Go check out what she has to say at Just Thoughtful.

Who Is This Little Girl?

 Could this be my little Lydia?  She sure looks different!  As promised, here are the after pictures of her haircut.

This is Grace "helping" her smile.

I guess this is Lydia "helping" herself smile!

I am pretty happy with the haircut, considering what we had to work with!

Lydia Cut Her Hair...Again

Here's Brooke with Lydia on Thanksgiving Day...before Lydia decided to cut her hair.

Here is the after picture with all her curls washed out.

This is how long the back had finally grown.  I will post a picture of how short they have to cut it after I find someone with an opening.  Getting in for a haircut around here is almost impossible.

Little Funnies

I just overheard Emily asking Sophia if she was ready to practice her guitar to which Sophia responded "I was born ready."  I don't even know where she gets some of this stuff.

I was drying my hair this morning when Allison came running in all excited.  "Sophia said she would give me TWO monies if I empty her garbage for her!"  I thought, wow, Sophia is way to smart for her age, she is probably going to give her a couple pennies and get our of her chore.  But when Allison finished emptying Sophia's garbage, she came in and showed me that Sophia had given her a dollar bill, one quarter, and one penny.  That's a pretty good wage for a 2 minute job!

Red River Zoo

While in Fargo I decided to take the kids to the zoo.  I don't think any of my littles had been to a zoo.  The highlight of the visit was probably the carousal.  It is so pretty and it goes pretty fast for a merry-go-round!  I loved that they had a wagon available since I hadn't brought the stroller.  The Chinese Red Panda was even out that day which was a real treat!