birthday, half birthday, and almost birthday

Gracie is now six years old! She now needs two hands to show how old she is. Big stuff! She had a party at The Little Gym with all her friends from school and had a BLAST! Confirmed we *really* need to get this girl in gymnastics... she LOVED it!

Then she also had a family party at home. She requested that my mom make her a unicorn cake. Simple enough. Only mom figured it would be fairly easy to find a unicorn cake pan at local stores. And it wasn't. So Grace picked out a carousel cake... and being the uber cool grandma, so altered the carousel horses to be unicorns. Gracie was THRILLED!



April also marks Thomas' half birthday... he's 3-1/2 now! He cracks us up several times a day.




and baby girl is now 11 months! She's still such a peanut, it's hard to believe I'm planning a first birthday party already! She's such a great joy and always happy. She's getting very close to walking... well, I think she's just going to be running instead of walking first.

big changes

We finally moved Sophie out of our room and into her own room in a crib! (well, technically, she's sharing a room with Grace, but Grace sleeps in Abby's room every night)


she's really saying "hiiii!" and not ready to bite like a caged animal

nice and snuggly


and a sign of Thomas' potty training success:

he earned a Cars car for each dry day during the training period. As much as I dragged my feet in pushing the potty issue, he trained very easily.