Fairies

We have a little nook in one of the walls of our house. When we first moved in, we had no kids. I was pregnant with Kiira. We put some interesting sculptures and other items in these nooks. Now, as the years have gone on, they have been appropriated for other purposes. Namely, to hold little notes written to the fairies. As legend holds, when a child has their first laugh, a fairy is born. Kiira's fairy is Scarlett. She writes little notes to Scarlett and places them in these nooks. She asks for various things. Some are large items, which Scarlett has told her are too heavy for her to fly with, and some are small. I believe in this particular note, a diamond was asked for.

Day at the barn

Each weekend we end up going to the barn. Mom gets a good ride in on Rhett and the kids play in the dirt. Literally, there is a pile of dirt they like to play in. On this day, they got a little treat to see the farrier put a shoe in Rhett. Apparently Mr. Amaretto had played a little too hard on a recent nice day and tossed the shoe. The kids were fascinated.

Rennie tried to give Rhett a kiss later but truth be told, Rhett is not fond of dogs. Which ended up being fine with Rennie because as it turned out for him, Rhett was a bit larger close up than our pup originally thought! :-)

Girls night out.

Sanity night with Katie, Kelly, Beinda and me. Picco's in Larkspur. Yum.

Sprawled

How is it that one small child can take up half of a king sized bed? This is how.....bugger.

Evan's 4th Birthday

This year Evan decided to have a soccer party. Normally I hold all the birthday parties at our house but I thought with this many kids (and so many boys!) coming perhaps a park was better. So we packed up all the food, decorations, presents, drinks and various serving items to go to Belvedere park. The day was beautiful and we spent time decorating our own soccer balls, we played pin the tail on the inflatable donkey and the kids kicked the freshly markered balls into the goals. All in all a good hit!

Evan's first year at the Mountain School

Well, here we are. Our first year of pre-school under our belt. After a rough start of 3 people pulling him off of me, to the teachers asking me to drop him off early (he was too disruptive when I had to leave him), we made it. Did he ever ASK to go to school? No. Did he ever jump up and down when it was a school day? No. The most exciting thing to him was rice day. And Asya day because that meant he got to take a walk. Has he ever jumped for joy when I mentioned school? Yes. That's a start you say. Well, it was usually precidated by, "There is no...." Oh well. There's next year and maybe even another year to learn to love it.

We have made some really nice friends though. His best friends have all been girls. Nancy Sue and Haley (twins) and Mimi. So cute....
And thank god for teacher Brenda whom I could faithfully hand him off too to cuddle him as I left. Phew......

Double sleepover

It is so nice to have a family that has the same age children as we do. It comes in handy when the kids want playdates (because god forbid ONE has a playdate and the other doesn't!) or even the occasional sleepover. Ginger and Evan got the presidential suite next to mommy and daddy's bed and June and Kiira got the guesthouse (our spare room!). Amazingly, they even got some sleep!