Life With Our Girls

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

It's My Birthday!!

Well My Birthday comes every year,as birthdays are known to do, and my little family seeks to out do itself every time that yearly event happens. They started a few days early by wrapping my gifts and creating this fabulous "birthday tree". They hung little notes and pictures that they had drawn on the branches and laid my gifts underneath. Ryan had a conference to go to outside of Truro the weekend before my birthday, and so I made plans to take the girls and visit my sister Jenny, and then have a family Party with my parents, my brother T.j. and his family , and my sister Jenny and hers.

When we got to Jenny's Grammie happened to be visiting, and since we hadn't seen her since Christmas, there were lots of snuggles to catch up on!

Grampie and Eva

Grammie and Emmy

Jenny's 5 girls are best friends with our 4,so lots of fun cousin time happened over the weekend!!

Elin having fun...eating candy from her cousins

And this is what happens when you get 9 little girls under the age of 8 in a toy room together!! Lots of crazy fun!!

Now, for my party, we decided to go bowling with everyone, the kids ,some of whom have never been, decided they needed to practice beforehand to get their bowling skills in fine form..so here is what Terry and Jenny's living room looked like that afternoon...coke bottle pins being diligently knocked over by the winner wannabes,and set back up by Eva.

Charley has her own camera,so was getting candid moments here and there.

Happy Elin

We finally got to get our handsome man back. He was finished his overnight conference, and was awaiting the start of the celebratory bowling party!

Uncle T.j. giving the girls some fine pointers and what not to dos!!

Ryan and Elle, she has the classic little person bowling stance..

a close-up of our 4 year old!!!

Eva, trying her hand at getting those tricky pins to knock over. We did have the bumpers up on the little ones' lane, so every ball was successful at making it down that long lane!!

The birthday girl...

Charley celebrating a straight ball!

One of the finer sides of my brother!!

Ryan grabbed the camera at certain times during the evening..I guess he didn't want me left out of the pictures.

So here I am, not half exciting as the younger ones....

or Ryan I guess...the form! My..you'd think his score would have reflected this obvious expertise!!

Grammie and Elin, Grammie had her just giggling, it was so cute.

Then Ryan let her try her hand at bowling.

And here we were!! All done, and ready for cake back at T.j and Sandra's

punch..

And cake!!

Happy Birthday to me from my family!!

Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Sister love

One day Ryan came upon Elle counting with Eva from a book of finding things hidden within the pictures, snuggled on the couch, and he plopped Elin up with them .They were so happy .

Messy faces and all!!

These two are becoming the best of friends lately. It is so adorable watching them play...and fight ...although the fighting isn't all that adorable. Here Elin had gotten herself up on the footstool and Eva started to tickle her.

The giggling was so cute!

When I got married Mommy gave me my baby book, my old baby blanket and a special outfit I had worn as a baby. Well, I was going through my "stuff" the other day, and came across all of it, and tried the sweater and hat on Elin.

She looks nothing like I did in it, but was feeling very special non the less!

She did have 3 sisters and a mommy gooing at her the whole time!!

Well the big news around here was that we finally deemed Elin skilled enough in stair climbing and descending to take the baby gates off the 2 sets of stairs in our home. All the girls' big girl toys are in the basement of out home,so Elin would watch from upstairs as the girls played on the landing and stairs below her. Well, these pictures were taken the first day we took the gates off...Elin was in heaven!! She was right in the middle of the action now!!

Here is Eva playing beneath Elle and Elin

I'm, not sure what the attraction the stairs hold for the girls as their favorite play area, but they will play there all day long. Putting their babies to bed, lining them on the stairs and "sleeping " on the stair above the babies. They have tea parties on the landing, and pretend that it is their house. Now that Elin has the run of the house..there are a few more exasperations with their play..i.e. a little sister without an imagination, stealing their tea party food...stealing their babies or baby's clothes . But all in all it has been a fun change for our family!I must admit a tear trickled from my eye as I put those old baby gates away for the last time...sigh!!

More of the 2 "besties". Blowing on Elin's belly

Tickling Elin's feet!

Now that Elin is down with the girls in the toy room, the dress up clothes are at her disposal..or she is at her sisters' disposal to be a real live baby!!

Emmy brought her upstairs all dressed up to show me, Elin was so proud of herself!!

Happy Valentines Day!!

Valentines Day is a big event for our family of 4 little girls. Emily still doesn't understand why we have to have school that day as she thinks it should be a national holiday!! The girls all went to bed buzzing with excitement , and when they were all down, I got out our box of decorations and everything Valentines!! We had sat down on grocery day and picked out a Valentines breakfast menu, that suited all of our taste bud's fancies!! Dunsters donuts,chocolate dipped strawberries,and grape juice.