Birthday!

I suppose I should say BirthdayS! but it's really not all about me any more, is it? Oh well, we had a fun party for Sabine's 8th...fruit on a stick, pizza, cake, water balloon fights, face painting, and of course, general kinder-mayhem.

(Oh, and we finally found a living room couch -- look how many kids fit on it! and they could have added more!!!)

Viv turns three

Happy Birthday, little one!


The wooden blocks and animals from mommy, daddy, Sabine, Granny Jean and Boopy (Sabine helped me pick them all out)


Block madness!


And Barbie. She sings. Sabine got one too. This is what I got for her with her birthday check from her Great Aunt Jean and Great Uncle Dick. Sabine got one too. They sing together, actually...the girls LOVE them! So, therefore, do we. Wow. Barbie strikes again.

We had the good fortune to be invited to friend Astrid's belated 4th birthday party on Viv's actual birthday, and Astrid was so kind as to let Vivian have a few candles on her cake, and share in the birthday glory. Grandmother Joan is visiting from LA, fun to have family around for the celebration!

New birthday outfit

Thanks Grandmother Joan!

6 year old birthday party

This was my original idea for a party favor for the 10 little girls Sabine had invited to her party...as usual I was overly optimistic...This one took a fair bit of time to make, so we gave it to another little friend for her birthday gift, and came up with this for party favors:

Much easier to make en masse.

Happy girlies!

Party time

The other night after Vivian was in bed we were hanging out with Sabine, who said, "It's Cisco's birthday" (this is a common refrain right now, it's always somebody's (usually her stuffed Lambie's) birthday around here!). She then went on to say "Cisco never gets his birthday." So Bret began drawing invitations (note the stubby tail) in black outline...Sabine had him color them in with orange, "...because if you color them in with black you won't see him."