Sarah is 4! Time to celebrate! We took it to the park and had a Five Little Monkeys party—a “jumping on the bed” cake, a few presents featuring the five little monkeys, and climbing on the playground equipment (sure, that counts as part of the theme!). Sarah loves to be silly and goofy and is always climbing and swinging from things, so I call her my little monkey sometimes. But she is also sweet, sensitive, serious, smart, and a whole host of other things at times.

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Anna’s good little friend Rebekah had a birthday today, and the party was out at her place in the country. Part of the fun was getting to feed the goats! Here are a few pics:

And some fun on the trampoline too!

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Happy 3rd birthday to our Sarah!

Thanks to a couple of international student friends of ours, Sarah got to hear a beautiful version of “Happy Birthday” on the piano and violin!

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Does anything transform a child from “baby” into “kid” like pigtails? Oh, she looks so grown up…

 

 

 
The girls have had a good time collecting those locust shells lately:

 
And one more pic, just because they’re so cute:

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Desperate times call for desperate measures. Today I pulled out one of those over-achiever-super-Pinterest-mom-who-has-it-all-together type tricks and made cloud dough. The word “sensory” should probably go in there somewhere if I were an early childhood education major or a therapist.

Anyway, they seem to be enjoying it!

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Sarah has fallen in love with the Biscuit books. They’re simple easy readers with very sweet stories and illustrations, and they are perfect for children beginning to read. Evidently, they are also perfect for Sarah, because she’s had us read them to her 16 billion times in the past couple of weeks, and apparently it has started to sink in:

If you know the book, it is even cuter, because she really is getting the words and the intonation right!

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The girls and I managed a little trip to Tulsa for my youngest niece’s first birthday party this past weekend. The girls had fun playing with their cousins, I stayed sane (mostly due to the fact that my parents were there in the same hotel to help!), and overall we had a good weekend.

Anna and Addie are good buds!

Hopefully Kendall and Sarah will be too, when Sarah gets a little older. They’re only 6 months apart.

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… because that’s where the book bags were sitting after our trip to the library. That’s where the girls just plopped down and started looking at them. My, how these girls love books! And I’m so glad! We have a lot of good times reading together.

Anna is reading picture books and easy readers very well on her own. We read plenty of them to her as well, of couse. I’m about to start reading aloud some chapter books to her. Sarah still loves board books, but more and more she is reaching for “real” books to look at and be read to her. She’s pretty good about sitting through the whole thing, although sometimes it’s hard to get through it because she is so excitedly pointing out things on every page! But that’s wonderful as well.

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Sarah turned 2 today! We celebrated with a family outing to two of our favorite places—The Wonder Place and Chick-fil-A. It went well and we all had a good time. We love this little girl of ours!

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I imagine there comes a point in the life of every mother of a girl when she feels the urge to sew a dress for her daughter. And I suppose that every mother of more than one daughter wishes to put them in matching dresses at some point. While mine are still too young to balk at the idea of matching or at my sense of style (or lack thereof), I decided I’d better get on it.

Due to my self-imposed limitation of sewing only straight lines and right angles, I bought 2 matching t-shirts and made gathered skirts to attach to them, naturally turning what should have been a 2-hour project into an all-day affair. That is what I do best, after all.

They came out looking like dresses, so we’ll call this a success. Anna loves hers, and even though Sarah is in an “I’m going to freak out about trying on new clothes” phase, she got used to it, so I’ll take that as a compliment. :)

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