Eight is great. Blair's birthday.

Blair is 8. Already 8. Only 8. How you refer to that depends on her attitude that day. :) She loves makeup and jewelry. She told me before Christmas that she really only likes teenager-type gifts, because she's "really like a teenager". However, at the end of the day, she's still the girl that likes to sit on your lap, give kisses and hugs, and be tucked in at night.

She didn't want a birthday party this year. Instead she wanted to have a friend over for a sleepover and to go to Gattitown. Well, due to illnesses, we couldn't have her friend over, but we still made it to Gattitown.

The breakfast of birthday girls everywhere.

After dinner cookie. Our favorites.

 

Sloane was so excited to pick something out for Blair. She finally decided on these milk straw glasses.

Leave it to a brother to mock how excited you are about a present. What present would that be? Makeup, of course.

Opening Aunt Amy, Uncle Mike, Lawson, and Maren's gift...

Dangle earrings. Yes, she really was this excited. I'm not sure I've ever heard her scream so loud!

Of course, diving right into the makeup.

She really is a very thoughtful child.

Dr. Seuss Week 2014

More Dr. Seuss day fun at school.

Crazy Hat Day! They were so excited to get to wear their Mickey ears. Oh yeah, it was also "Dress in the Class Color" day.

Blair's class color was red.

Sloane's was yellow.

Reid's was blue.

 

Crazy Sock Day.

Plus a pair of crazy feet thrown in.

 

"Dress as your favorite Dr. Seuss character" day.

She is a zebra from "On Beyond Zebra". It's about a Seussical creature who explains that his alphabet starts AFTER the letter Z, "beyond Z for Zebra." So it has letters like Yuzz, and Wum, and Snee. It's actually really cute. It'd be a good book to get.

Showing off that mane and tail. :)

Sloane's always got the animal poses.

Thing 1. On some days, though, I think he could be Thing 1 AND 2. And 3, 4, and 5.

Cindy Lou Who from the Grinch. (Which meant she got to wear blush and lipstick. Of course.)

We always thought she had a Who nose. Now we have the proof!

Zoo Day

Since the kids had a day off on President's Day, I decided to go to the zoo, not realizing that it was Free Admission day and everyone else had the same idea. Oh well, it wasn't too bad and it ended up being a great day.

We finally got to go to the Sea Lion show!

It's a good thing these two don't have to live in this hut!

 

Everyone had to have a turn being the girl...

 

Wait for me...!

 

Like a puddle on the ground.

I want to see too!

Laying eggs on a nest of mud.

Laying more eggs. Apparently Sloane is laying them on the ground too.

So cute.

The first of many times she had to sit down. At one point she said, "We better go before I get my anger problem!"

Seriously. So cute. (Again.)

He loved feeding the ducks. This is his "Oooh!" face.

Had to take a picture of a rainbow for Sloane.

We're all getting worn out by this point. Thank goodness for Reid...what a trooper pushing Sloane most of the day!

He liked the giraffes. More "oooohs!"

Mad at Mom

This is so sweet, but cracks me up at the same time. Whenever Elise is upset, usually--or I should probably say ALWAYS--with me, she will run into the arms of her big brother or sisters for comfort. I love to see them take care of each other like this. But seriously, why can't they act this loving all the time???



"Mom won't let me use the vacuum cleaner!" Cue a major fit-pitching. So in jumps "Ree" to rescue her. Reid is always looking out for her safety and happiness. Well, when he feels like it.



"Mom's a horrible evil person because she won't let me run into the middle of the long jump event at Reid and Blair's track meet!" My goodness, you should have heard the screams and seen the stares. As it turned out, I practically missed the event because I had to back so far away to keep from annoying every other person out there. As soon as I put her down, she ran right to"Flone" for safety from her terrible mother.


"I don't know what mean old mom did to me this time, but I'm sure it was something horrible." And she jumped right in "Bwair's" lap for comfort.

She may not be the baby of the family, but I think she'll always be the baby of the family.