Birthday Month

Well, it's that time of year again.  Yes, the best time of year- my birthday month.  Oh, and Emma's, and my sister Kayla's and my niece Sadies, and my Grandpa's... at least 2 of my cousins.... Yea, it's a big month for birthday's.  But lets not forget the most important one- mine.  Just kidding.  Kinda.  Well, I'm going to dedicate this post to Emma and her birthday.  Randy can do mine.  Hint hint.

First, I wanted to show you this picture of Kenadi sleeping in the closet.  She decided that she wanted to sleep there one night and we said yes, because we figured she would move to her bed since it was so uncomfortable.  But, no, she slept there all night.  Amongst the shoes.

 Emma LOVES trains, cars, trucks, princess things, dressing up, etc.  So, I took her to the Thomas when he came through town.  She was so excited to see Thomas.

 Emma loves Mya and Kenadi.  She is a good big sister to Mya.  A little overwhelming, but all with good intentions.  =)  Most of the time.

 Emma loves dancing.  She watches Kenadi in her dance class, and can't wait until she's old enough to go too.  They dance around the house together, it is so cute.

 For her birthday we took her to the zoo to go ride the train and see the animals.  The girls love the zoo.

This is our happy Emma and Kenadi, on the zoo train.  She loved it. 

 I decided to try fondant this year.  It was my first time making it and using it, so I didn't expect it to be perfect, and it wasn't.

 Emma loved her cake so much that she had me set it on the table close to her so that she could watch/guard it all day.  I had to give up worrying about it because it was A) her cake after all, and B) she drove the cars around on top, stuck her finger in the side (right where I covered it up with lots of green grass), and it made her so happy to mess with it.  No one was eating it but us anyway, so I let her play with it for the rest of the day.

 Happy 3rd birthday Emma!  

Growing girls and a secret word

This is my new favorite song:  cute music, words seem to apply, and I love her wings she wears in the video. Hope you like it like I do.

Ok, I have hidden a secret word in this post.  Comment below to guess which word it is.

A sweet friend made our girls these tee-shirts.  They say :" I am the big sister" "I am the middle sister" and "I am a frog".  Just kidding.  I crack myself up.  It really says "I am the little sister".  Did you guess?  Aren't they adorable?

 Oh, they are growing too fast!

 THIS happy girl finally learned how to ride her bike without training wheels.  She LOVES it.  Now the bike is too small for her.  =)  She doesn't know that though.  So, she insisted on riding for a half an hour in the rain today.  She would have ridden longer, but alas, it was time for lunch.  

 A few times we have been convinced that Mya was teething.  However, I wasn't prepared for it and didn't have a teether in the fridge for her, so I decided to use butter.  If this isn't red neck, then I don't know what is.  Alas, she wasn't teething.

 I have a few first day of school pictures that I've been meaning to post for a while.  The one above is Kenadi's first day of homeschool.

 Emma's first day of Joy school.

 Emma's other first day of school.  No, she just really likes to dress up like her sister.  I haven't posted on here or announced it or anything, but we've decided to homeschool Kenadi for this year.  We are so happy with this decision.  There are quite a few reasons why we did this, but #1 being that our school district has mandatory all day kindergarten and I felt like that was way too long for her to be gone during the day at that age.  She needed more influence at home than she did from people at school.  She likes homeschool too.  We stay busy for sure.

Here is my happy baby.  She crawls all over the place, makes huge messes now, and is so proud of herself.  Such a happy happy girl, but a VERY bad sleeper.  

OK, can you tell me what the secret word was?  It is one I don't think I've ever used on this blog- that should give you a hint.  Oh yea, and I don't know if I even used it right.