The Birthday Girl

 

Just a little tribute to our big 6 year old girl! Autumn is such a fun, loving, happy little girl, and beautiful too! For her birthday she had a little tea party with some friends, and had such a good time. The really sad part is that I just went to get the birthday pictures for the blog, and there was no card in the camera. I will just have to make another cake and take a picture of her blowing out her candles! At least the girls enjoyed themselves! They painted cookies, and had their little tea party, and did the usual party things. It was really cute to watch them play together. Autumn had a great time as she always does! Another great birthday surprise a few days earlier was the "date" David took her on. She was so excited, she wanted to wear a dress and "comb her hair really nice". David took her out for dinner and bought her a cute new outfit that she modelled for us later. :)

Wrestle-mania

Okay, so all three kids are in this video, but there is a star, of course! Note that when Autumn comes in she has a Kleenex on her nose. She tried to wrestle Marik first, and Marik won, leaving her with a bloody nose! We really have no idea where he gets this from. We don't watch wrestling, and this hasn't happened before, except for a few attacks on Brenden Summers when we were in MD!

Marik is definitely two

 
 
 
 

It has only been a short while since Marik turned two, but he is doing his best to get in all of the mischief he can, including enjoying diaper rash cream, being stung by two wasps (both on the same eye...not his fault, of course), trying to scare other kids with the Darth Vader mask, getting into mom's lipstick...He just recently found the little knit cap he wore in the hospital after he was born and has been wearing it around the house. This kid is so funny! I do enjoy Porter and Autumn so much, even though they don't appear in this blog as often! I will definately add some more about them soon!

Visitors!

 

We have been so lucky to have TWO of our favorite families from Maryland visit us here in Florida...the very sad thing is that I didn't take many pictures at all, so the Hulls aren't even pictured here! They are coming again, so the picture will have to come after the next visit! The Braithwaites stayed for a few days, so the camera was more likely to come out, but I still did a poor job! It was so fun to see you guys, and we look forward to going to Maryland someday for a visit to you and the rest of our favorite people! Just a little post script about the collage...Autumn was practically glued to Miles, the baby in the picture, so the sad look on her face is deceiving...she was thrilled, and would even wait outside his room while he was napping to tell Holly when he made a noise! Since she started kindergarten, every picture of our family that she draws includes me with a "girl baby" in my tummy. Oh boy. I gave her a speech about how fun it is for us to be the only girls in our family. I told her we could do really fun things just the two of us, and she got really excited of course, because she is Autumn...mostly so happy and easy to please!