Happy Father's Day!

Chloe: Here's Daddy with his girls, all ready to have a yummy Father's Day dinner!

 

Amber: We had a great time, spending the day with Grams and Grampa, having a cook out, playing in the pool, running around outside.

 

Kyra: Yup!  It was great!  Happy Father's Day to everyone!

 

Chloe: We're thinking of Daddy, of course, but also Grampa, Pop-Pop, Pop-Pop Thompson, Uncle John, Uncle Fuzz, all the dads, granddads, godfathers. 

Happy Mother's Day!

 

Chloe: Happy Mother's Day!!!!

 

Amber: Yes, Happy Mother's Day to Mommy, Mom-Mom, and Grams!

 

Kyra: And Happy Mother's Day to our godmothers: Aunt Diane, Sam, and PattyAnne!

 

Chloe: We love you!

St. Patty's Day

 

Amber: We had lots of fun last night at JoJo and Fuzz's St. Patty's Day dinner!  I avoided Mo and chowed down on yummy food!

 

Chloe: I prefer trying to elude capture to eating.

 

I am not always successful.

 

Kyra: I didn't have purees all night!  Potatoes, green beans, shepherd's pie, CUPCAKE.

 

Kyra: This has been my favorite holiday so far, although I was confused.  There were animals in the house and another baby was there.  I'm still not sure where we were.

Life as a Five Year Old

 

Chloe: Wow!  Life as a 5 year old has its advantages... like multiple parties!  On Friday, I brought ice pops to school for all my friends and yesterday, I got to have two parties!

 

I selected the Olympics as my theme, so for my friends party at the craft store, Mommy ordered a red, white, and blue cupcake cake and made this Olympic torch.  My friends got treat bags which included gummy bracelets in the colors of the Olympic rings, plus a lot of other great stuff!

 

We started off with some coloring...

...and then moved on to making Perler bead crafts.

 



 

I was so happy to spend some time with my friends!

 

I haven't seen Lexi in so long - it was great to see her!  It's also hard to catch up with Joy and Julianna since we're not doing dance anymore, so I was really glad they came.  And Michael was a great sport being the only boy.

 

When it was time to sing, my friends sang over the loud speaker so everyone in the store knew it was my birthday.

 

We had a great time!

 

Then, it was time to head home for my next party with our family.

 

Mommy made me this awesome cake!

 

Amber helped me blow out my candles.

 

Here I am, ready for school this morning, all set to show off this awesome Barbie shirt that Julianna gave me.  Mommy said that I am "Barbie Stuff Girl, the president of Barbie Stuff World."

 

And here's the picture of Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker that Michael made for me.  We're buds.

 

Thanks, everyone for celebrating my birthday with me!  It was a great day and I am so thankful for all my wonderful gifts!!  Love you!

Being Impetuous

Chloe: So, out of nowhere, Mommy just says, "let's go see Grams and Grampa on Saturday" and then we just went.

Amber: I know.  It was so cool - they are so close now we can be impetuous.  I love being impetuous.

Chloe: We had a great time.  We went to the church bazaar... where we got these masks...

Amber: ...And special presents for Mommy from the area set up where kids can buy presents for people for Christmas.

Chloe: Nothing was more than $1!!

Amber: Mommy does enjoy a good bargain, but she said to Grams, "Funny, I spent more than a dollar on their presents to you" and I'm not sure what that meant.

Chloe: Mommy can be cryptic... Anyway, we also went to Sonic for lunch (I LOVE SONIC).

Amber: We did more Christmas shopping at the mall where we pleaded with Mommy until she bought us a huge Rudolph and we rode the merry go round.

Chloe: I was surprised that Santa was already walking around, but I was not surprised when you hid from him.  You're gonna have to get over that.  Mommy's getting her picture "come hell or high water," she said.  Not that I know what that means.

Amber: I need a couple of weeks. 

Kyra: Well, get it together, Amber.  Buck up, little camper!  Suck it up, buttercup!

Amber: When did she get so mouthy?

Chloe: Seriously.  Two teeth and she thinks she can rule the world.

(playing hide and seek - Grams will never find us!)

Dinner with Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop

 

Kyra: This is the tallest person I have ever met.

 

Chloe: He's the tallest person any of us have ever met. 

 

Kyra: I'm totally mystified.

 

Amber: Also, he will totally share ice cream with you if he has some.  Pop-Pop's good like that.

 

 

Kyra: This lady gives me lots of kisses. 

 

Chloe: Yup; kisses are Mom-Mom's forte.

 

Amber: Getting all of us to look at the camera at the same time is not.

 

Chloe: To be fair, though, no one is good at that.

 

Amber: True.

 



Busy Weekend in Smyrna!

Amber: It was a magical weekend, indeed!  We got to take the day off on Friday to take Kyra to the doctor and then we went shopping, got our pictures taken, bought wings, and packed up to go...

 

 Chloe: ...visit Grams and Grampa!  Grams was all ready for us with this new pool, bubbles, and all sorts of fun things.  We even got to spend the night!

 Kyra: I had fun, too - this lady said that I was the good one.

Chloe and Amber (in unison): WHAT?!

Kyra: Oh, nothing... carry on...

Chloe (rolling eyes): Anyway, we had a blast!  Amber and I love to take all of Grampa's stuff and repurpose it for our own use and he seemed to really be on board with that.

Amber: We also liked using Grams' art supplies...

Chloe: ...yes, we are very creative.

 

Amber: And, whenever Grampa would try to hide from us, we would find him.

Chloe: Yup.  I find that he can't escape if we both sit on him and make him watch Disney, Jr. or Dora.

Amber: Agreed.

New Digs

 Chloe: I was really confused when we pulled into a parking lot and I saw a yellow car outside my window which looked just like Grampa's at the same moment you said you saw a car outside your window that had a Gator on it like Grams' car.

Amber: I know - it was totally surreal.  

Chloe: What's surreal?

Amber: It was like a Dali painting, but with less clocks.

Chloe: What?

Amber: Nevermind.

Chloe: ANYWAY.  Mommy said that we should just go up to the door and knock and see who answered.

Amber: It was Grampa!  How did he get in there?

Chloe: Mommy said they moved to Delaware to be closer to us!

Amber: That's cool!  I especially liked how Grams has mattresses so we could stay overnight sometime and Grampa set up a sprinkler for us to run in. 

Chloe: Me, too. Mommy said that one day she could ditch us there with Grampa and she and Grams could hit the outlets in Rehobeth, but Grampa said no.

Amber: What a wimp!  We would behave!

Chloe: I probably wouldn't.

Amber: Yeah, me neither.

Kyra: Who are these people again?

Finally Father's Day!

Chloe: Well, we're back - Mommy had some technical difficulties, so we are just now sharing photos from Father's Day.

 

Amber: Geek Squad, she's not.

 

Chloe: Yeah, but we'll forgive her... we had a great Father's Day - we took Daddy and Pop-Pop out to brunch.

Amber: Mommy said that next year, Grampa can come with us, but I don't know what she's talking about. 

 

Chloe: Hmm... I have no idea, either.  Anyway, we had lots of yummy food...

 Kyra: I had formula.

 

 

Kyra: Mommy kept showing me this drink which looked really yummy... but all I got was formula.

 

 

(Chloe and Amber exchange glances.)

 

Amber: Yeah, it sucks about that.

 

Chloe: Sorry, kid.

 

(Kyra glares at Chloe and Amber.)

 

 

Chloe: After brunch, we got to go to Ronnie's Power Rangers birthday party!  It was AWESOME.

Amber: It was overwhelming.

 

Chloe: It was AWESOME.

Amber: The cake was awesome.

Kyra: Again.  I had formula.

 

(Chloe and Amber exchange glances yet again.)

 

Chloe: Yeah, we keep walking right into that one.

Amber: Sorry, Kyra. 

 

 

 

Chloe: The best part was meeting the Red Ranger!!

 

Kyra: I have no idea what any of those words mean.

 

Amber: Yeah, I'm with the little chicken on this one... what are we supposed to be doing right now?

 

Chloe and Daddy: It.is.awesome.....!