Happy Harmonie!

Just a sweet girl doing her own thing.

She is such a sweet little thing.

Love her to pieces!

5 months - exactly.

Only because March has 31 days and she was born on the 31! Such a struggle I will have with this.

Oh well. Here are some pictures of Naomi with her lamb, which she received from our adopted Grandma Graham. We all agree that Naomi loves her lamb and it is fun to watch her "yell" at it and love it.

She also loves Emily's dog, Polly.

What a face!

 She seems to prefer her right thumb,

but she will take either.

She is so happy most of the time. Eats well. Sleeps well. And we all just love her! She is growing so fast and enduring all the craziness around her.

Extra birthday cakeish business going on.

I made two chocolate round cakes for my birthday. I wanted both chocolate frosting and German chocolate frosting. I like both but Domonique doesn't like the coconut so I thought I'd just make both. I ended up not getting the frosting made on time for the my birthday so we only had the chocolate on one layer of cake. Then we had the other cake with your choice of frosting the next day. So yummy!

Playgroup trip to a fire station

We don't often join the playgroup anymore - just so much we are doing... But when they planned a trip to a fire station, I decided we should go along. It's nice to have a review for the older kids and to have the younger kids experience this type of thing. They all enjoyed the trip.

Family group shot!

Entire group shot!

Real Birthday! 41 will be just as good as 40, I'm sure of it.

Pancakes with vanilla ice cream and 

maple flavored sugar water

(our version of syrup).

Pasta salad with chicken, grapes and apples!

May sound weird but it is so good!

Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting!

Really big bag.

Holding lots of shirts, jeans and shorts.

How very exciting!

Wait? There's more?

Surprise!

A dozen doughnuts and 

chocolate ice cream!

(Inside joke: if Kevin ever asks me if I need him to 

pick something up on his way home,

I always say, 

"doughnuts and chocolate ice cream.")

Special present from Kemiah...

Handmade wrapping made out of our scrap paper.

Handmade treasure box for all my little treasures.

Almost Birthday!

Yummy homemade won tons and egg rolls.

Really lovin' this stuff!

Tres Leche Cake with strawberries and whipped cream!

So very good!

My builder boy!

He loves to build and create.

His ideas are so fun and clever.

He is not limited to just Legos.

He has started to build with Jenga blocks.

And then he uses leftover blocks to destroy what he built.

He would come and tell me how many blocks it would take

to "sink" one of his boats.