FOUR!!!!

Happy Birthday Shirley! 
You're four years old today. 
What an amazing, beautiful, kind and creative person you are. 
Your mommy and I love you immeasurably sweet pea.
  

Happy Birthday Rosa!

I tried to get this posted sooner....Your birthday was yesterday. We had a great weekend with family and friends. You'll learn sooner or later that your dad is not so great at expressing himself through writing. Just know that you're daddy and mommy's little sweetheart. Your big sister, Shirley, adores you and gives you great hugs and kisses when she's not screaming at you for taking her toys.

Finally posting our holiday weekend with friends.

Howdy! 
I can't believe how long its been since we've posted. 
When I checked my past posts, I noticed that I had drafted this particular post and never published it. So these are a few months old now, but so worth the wait.I'll try to post again within the next week or so. 
Enjoy.

Shirley and Rosa's visit with Annelie and Sadie was holiday epicness!

Annelie was totally awesome!

Annelie's gingerbread cookie was happy.

This was a good a weekend as any for Rosa to start crawling.

Rosa was very happy to see her friends.

Rosa watches and learns, as Sadie stands tall.

Sadie, Rosa and Sean lounging in the morning.

Wild!

Shirley & Annelie and their baskets

Sharing is caring.

Shirley is so focused.

Three is a Magic Number!

Happy Birthday Shirley! Sandy was not invited to this party.

Three is a magic number!

http://youtu.be/aU4pyiB-kq0

The perfect fit.

There's not much else to say about this. She is the perfect fit.
Shirley's growing up, whether we like it or not.
But she will always be our little baby bird.

Before & After

Beauty

Storytime

Our nightly ritual of reading to Shirley will only get more interesting as Rosa gets older. I'll be interested to see how many books we'll be reading, each evening, in a year or two....I'm guessing 10 or more.

Photo: Daddy

Photo: Mommy

One of my favorite rituals at the moment is our Saturday morning breakfasts together. My dad use to, and probably still does, make the standard bacon, eggs and toast that always hit the spot. I can only hope mine does his justice and at least hold the same kind of memories for Shirley and Rosa.