St. Patty's Day Fun!

On St. Patrick's Day, we hit up the Seattle Children's Museum with our good friends Sheree, her son Dev, and daughter Madi. Last Monday was Dev's birthday, and he had invited Pay to go with him for his special day, but her big sis Haley was home sick throwing up, so we went with them on Wednesday.

Sheree suggested that we start with the art room first so that everything can dry while we play. This was such a good idea because the kids all painted and everything was really wet. Pay spent almost an hour painting this picture of a rainbow with a pot of gold at the end and roses on the bottom.

 Little Madi (youngest of the G6) was so busy. She painted, glued, taped, and colored!

 Dev did a little bit of everything too. Including this cool leprechaun hat.

 We went to the little grocery store next. The kids took turns checking each other out and shopping. They spent a good 20 minutes in here, taking their time.

Dev pretended to drive the girls around in the international area. The girls were both perfectly happy letting him do the "driving" while they sat back and relaxed.

 Because it was Dev's special day, his Mommy took us all on the Monorail!

 Of course it had to rain a little bit (We do live in Seattle!) but it didn't spoil our fun. We got off at Westlake and walked around a bit. The kids loved taking the escalator's up and down.

 Husband was working a route not to far from us, and he had been promising Dev that he could come check out "The Big Brown Truck", so we met him on his lunch break and he let each of the kids sit in the seat and honk the horn.

 She loves to visit Daddy!

Little Madi is still small enough that we can pick her up and toss her around. We miss having a little toddler, so we love it when she is around!

Thanks so much Sheree, Dev, and Madi for inviting us out for such a special day!

Kaylin's Big Weekend!

Another one of our babies is growing up way to fast!

Here's our little Kaylin at 5 months old. She had the roundest and cutest little cheeks in the world!

Here she is now at 9 years old. (Her Daddy drew a picture of her favorite star wars character, Yoda.)

For her 9th birthday, she wanted to have a slumber party. She invited 5 of her closest friends and they were all able to come. Her Daddy made these light sabers out of swimming noodles (we got the idea here) and the girls loved them! We played outside with the them while waiting for everyone to show up. As usual, hubs got way into it!

The girls basically ran around the house, chasing each other with the light sabers until it was dinner time. They were giggling non stop!

For dinner, we had them make their own pizza's on pita bread. They seemed to really enjoy this. We put out Trader Joe's pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, pepperoni and pineapple. We did offer olives and mushrooms,

but there were no takers.

She requested a light saber cupcake, cake. This was one of the easiest "cake's" that I have ever done! The idea came from here, but Kaylin wanted to use mini cupcakes for a handle.

Yoda mustaches!

My good friend Sheree, from the G6, does a very special popcorn "surprise" for kids when they sleepover at her house. I thought it would be fun for the girls, so I copied her and passed them out during the late night movie.

I think she was getting a little tired of me sneaking up and taking pictures. Ha! Too bad!

Breakfast for the tired girls was pancakes (with strawberry and regular syrup), bacon, scrambled eggs, and fresh strawberries. We couldn't believe how many pancakes these girls ate!

The birthday girl and her besties! She had a blast!

A very special Thank You to the G6 for taking the little sisters for a sleepover so that Kaylin could have this night for just her and her friends!

Next was her family and family friends party. Her grandma's, aunties, cousins, and the H5 all came to celebrate (the G6 were celebrating their grandma Kim's birthday and couldn't make it).

Spotlight on Kaylin while she opened her presents.

Pay and cousin Livi were ready to start playing with Kaylin's new toys! (Goo Goo B is giving Livi bunny ears)

Grandma made jello jigglers and we used our "K" cookie cutter to cut them.

Haley spent the night at Auntie Robin's and they made this delicious berry trifle. We also had cherry pie, vanilla ice cream, and whip cream. Yummy!

Thanks everyone for celebrating Kaylin with us!

The next day was Monday and her actual birthday. Daddy surprised Kaylin and took the day off, so we thought, "why not let the girls take the day off too?". The girls spent the morning coloring and painting with Daddy.

For the afternoon, Kaylin wanted to head to the Lego store and use her gift card that she got from Grandma. She of course got more Lego Star Wars figurines. Thanks Grandma!

Her younger sisters had money from Chinese New Year, so they all spent about an hour building their own Lego people. This was so much fun!

We had a coupon for a free small cup of Lego's, so we all grabbed Lego's from the bins and handed them to Daddy.

He spent almost an hour packing down and filling every little space in the container. The workers were definitely impressed with what he fit into it!

For her birthday, day, she wanted Lemon Meringue pie. This cracks me up, because normally she does not like lemon stuff, but it's what she wanted, and she ate it up!

Happy Birthday Kaylin! We love you!

Need I Say More?

The kids thought it was pretty dang funny that Mommy knocked over the entire container of Goldfish crackers just after I had filled it up!I, however, had to do a Homer Simpson "D'OH!" (of course with my palm to my forehead) because I was in complete disbelief! I seriously opened up the large Costco size bag, emptied it into a Tupperware container and while reaching for the lid, knocked it right off the counter!