Hula hoops

Since her birthday party and the fruit loop necklace making, mixed with me tying 1000 origami peace cranes to hula hoops, yuliya is calling fruit loops "hula hoops" DO NOT try to correct her, she will be sure to inform you that it's you who are mistaken.  They genereally eat cheerios or kashi cereal, so the fact that we have this massive bag of fruit loops to finish off has been a real joy for them.....only, she will only let cash eat the blue or green and she eats the red and yellow. Sometimes I wonder what Cash would do if he were the older one. For now though, he seems less interested in eating them, and more interested in dropping them on the sidewalk and crunching them under his shoe, to make a circle of green powder.

This is yuliya's impatient hurry up and take the picture smile so she can get back to running around. She looks so adorable in the outfit Aunt Susan gave her for her birthday

 Cash rationing side walk to us, he eventually moved across the yard after frustrations that we werent taking the colors he was allowing. He moved 3 colors at a time about 10 ft away, to keep us from getting them, too cute

Yuliya's rainbow

Azaleas

Every year the Azaleas bloom in front of Yuliya and Cash's bedroom window on her birthday, she calls them her birthday flowers.  Lucky us they come in  pink...her favorite color!

Grand Entrance

 

 

This is my sister Amy, she created life today, an art of gods, we get to create life, love, nurture, and cherish these tiny beings we grow inside of us.  Welcome to motherhood Amy, it's our gift, and the gift we give the world. I know it was painful, but hey, if it weren't people would be having kids like we buy donut holes.

  

this is me, I can't look away from my new niece, can you?

 

This is my sister tara, she didn't have a baby today, but she has three! And they were all perfect little newborns too :)

This is Matt, how long did it take him to fall in love with his daughter?

Not very long at all

Halloween

Gnome and a princess for Julian's Halloween birthday party at a kid gym. They had a blast, a ton of great kid activities.

Yuliya turns 3 Very Hungry Caterpillar

We love the book the very hungry caterpillar, so this year we did that type of a party :) We had a blast. For some strange reason we have had an extreme cold front come in, from 76 to the 40's! We  had to put our fruit stamp paintings and thumbprint caterpillars and do inside activities. Have no fear though, chasing balloons is always a hit, even for adults :)

All the food from the book, with holes "eaten" through the  middle

Caterpillar cake!

Caterpillar pipe cleaner strung through felt fruit(heather and I had the tedious task of cutting tiny apples, pears,  oranges and plums)

Hey! We shared a womb! ....well not all of us... but you get the idea

Yuliya's bracelet

Even the teenagers made bracelets

Yuliya playing patty cake with Julian and Cash I think...or protecting him

Thank you for attending, playing and birthday gifts and wishes :)

Azaleas in bloom

Yuliya's birthday flowers here on her exact birthday :) 3rd year in a row. Every year, they bloom on her birthday and then fall off within 10 days, and don't return again until the following March.