More of Sophia's birthday

Sophia's birthday party was supposed to be at a pumpkin patch, with haybale mazes, hayrides and a petting zoo, but it rained all day! So, we ended up playing at McDonalds and then going to Grammy and Pop's house for cake and Presents. We had Isabella, Sophia, Alexander, Isaiah, Nehemiah, Ella and Lane at McDonalds and they all had a ton of fun!




















Grandpa's holding grandkids.



















The Birthday Queen










































Cake and Presents!

































Then there was her "Birthday birthday" (as we called it, since her party was a week before her birthday).
And this is what we did on that day.





we started with opening her presents. She had been waiting to get her present from Isabella. Isabella got her a "night at the ball" play set.























Then she got to open the present Faron and I got her, which was this tumbeling mat. They had lots of fun playing with that.


a "happy birthday" call from Grandma











































Then it was off to play at the park.

Special Birthday lunch, Pizza of course.














and soon it was time for the birthday nap!
She had a great birthday, and is very proud that she is now 3!

Sophia's 3rd Birthday

This is just the beginning of the birthday pictures, many more to come, but here are a few of my favorites for today.

Isn't she just beautiful!





look how big they all are!

Crazy boy.

Here are some pictures of Alexander, just in the last 2 weeks. These are just SOME of the examples of the nutty stuff he does on a daily basis. These were just the ones that happened to get captured on camera!















Here he is eating some Lasagna, check out the hair!















This time it is Mac 'n Cheese, again with the hair.
















His new favorite thing to do, climb up onto the kitchen table. For this reason we now have a gate that closes on the kitchen. He has a 6th sense that tells him if that gate has been left unlatched. If it has, rest assured, that table will be conquered in less than 5 seconds.


One day he just walked into the room like this. His "hat" is a tomato package, he found it in the kitchen and decided to add it to his outfit.
















This one is not entirely of his own doing. He came out of the girls room looking like this. The had just gotten this skirt from someone who gave them a bag of dress up clothes. Since it was short, the decided to put it on Alexander. He did not mind and he wore it for quite some time.
















He is one funny boy!

Cousins

Here are the Hopper and Hazen cousins. For the few minutes that we could get them all to sit still!

Learning to write.

Isabella's really getting good pencil control these days and her writing is getting great. Here is a worksheet she did a couple days ago.

Dance class

Isabella is now dancing in dance class.