Ella's Second "6th" Birthday Party

One of her many presents she received

Papa even got Hudson a present

Three cute little bunnies

We have a tendency to have month long birthday celebrations for our kids. This was Ella's second party with her cousins.

Happy 6th Birthday Ella!

Birthday Princess
Sweet Sisters

All three kids in their green at the start of our busy day. I am thinking it is almost impossible to get a picture with all three looking at the camera.

Can you tell she opened this present first thing in the morning?

All the presents from Gramma & Grampa. It made for a fun day of opening a few presents throughout the day.

Finally she got her Lalaloopsy.

Blowing out her candles

It was a very busy day full of plans from the birthday girl. She said she wanted a big breakfast with all of her favorites and even Hudson's favorites. After I got this big breakfast made they took a couple of bites and said they were full. Then after opening some presents we got ready for the day and headed out to Pizza Street to meet her friend Gwen. After pizza Gwen came over to our house to play with Ella all afternoon. Ella chose Culver's for dinner and then she wanted to watch a movie. Which was then followed by opening more presents and cupcakes. It was a great day and Ella enjoyed a day where she got to make all (well most) of the plans. After all your birthday is only once a year.

An update on Ella just so I want forget. She is a great big sister to her brother and sister. She loves kindergarten and her teacher. She is learning great and is now reading first grade words. Spelling tests and Math are her favorite things besides the fun activities like gym (which she use to not like). She is loving that she can now read some books. She is truly a blessing and I love her loving and giving spirit.

Leprechaun Trap

Hudson's trap is on the left and Ella's on the right

This was our first year to try an catch a Leprechaun. It was quite successful, well almost. We caught one but he escaped and left behind a chocolate gold coin. Ella said she even saw little leprechaun footprints.

A Fairy Spring Break

Alivia dressed as Tinker Bell
Terence, Tinker Bell & Vidia

I took two pictures to get everyone looking

One more of our cute little Tinker Bell

Ella decided she wanted everyone to dress up and she picked out everyones outfits. She loves to dress up and now so does Hudson. (Except we make him dress up like a boy). This was just one of our fun days during spring break.

Nurse Ella

At school Ella's class is working on a book about what they want to be when they grow up and Ella said she wanted to be a nurse. She really was excited she even went around the house fixing our boo boo's and then she gave us all bills and even really made us pay her.

Alivia Mae at 6 Months

This is an old picture of Ella at 6 months in the same outfit as Alivia is below. Everyone always asks who she looks like so here both our girls are in the same outfit and I didn't even notice that they are both grabbing their shoes.
Alivia is loving sitting up now. She is becoming a real pro. She still has her moments when she falls backwards especially when she gets excited. She is not crawling yet (thankfully) but if she sees something out of reach that she wants she can get it.

Trying food (besides oatmeal) for the first time. I decided I would trying making baby food this time. It turned out really good and it was fun to make. She tried peas for her first food. The other two kids hated anything green (and they still do) so I knew that she had to try peas first. At first she wasn't sure ......

.... but then she was reaching for more.

Well our youngest is already 6 months. You would think having two other children I would remember how fast time goes but it still always shocks me. I think with each child the time seems to go by a little faster. Alivia is definitely spoiled by everyone in our house. If the kids are around they hate to see or hear her cry. So they do whatever they can to make her happy. Hudson sits next to her in the car and he is able to get her to giggle so much. She is having a little trouble with stranger anxiety right now which makes it hard sometimes when family visits. We are extremely blessed with three happy, healthy and loving kids.