Hannah

Hannah is funny.  She always wants me to take her picture.  These are some of those pictures I take.  She has quite the imagination and is happy to do her own thing.  She'll preform a song impromptu for anyone and will usually custom make that song.  She loves to sing on her microphone and pretend to be a rock star.  I hear her doing this after we put her to bed at night.  She waves and talks to everyone and has a smile for everyone.  When you ask her how old she is she will tell you "5."  I think she thinks that puts her right about at Lincoln and Rachel's age.  She brings a lot of joy to our family.  Just wanted to record some of the fun things about Hannah at this age before  I forget.

4th of July

This is all I got from our 4th of July.  Sadly, it was about all we really did that had anything to do with the holiday-4th of July cookies.  It rained the whole day so a party and fire works were cancelled.  Instead we let them pick a toy from the dollar store.  I think we made the most of a rainy day.

What can I do?

I'm the event coordinator this summer for Rachel.  I thought I really had something going when I told her she was going to do preschool for Lincoln and Hannah.  It lasted 2 days but it was glorious while it lasted.

And she's off!

Lily is now mobile.  She sits and crawls like a pro.  It seems like each kid grows up faster.

Project Discovery

I love a good project, but I've found that the more kids I have...the less project time I have.  A couple of days ago Rachel decided she wanted a blue dress and cloak like Erica from Barbie's Princess in the Popper.  I was going to use some old material to make a dress, but then I decided that was too much work so we went and looked at Goodwill stores and found this dress.  It was a woman's size 10 but we just had to pull it up at the shoulders.  We used my old prom dress material to make the cape.

 A good seamstress might have ironed the cloak.

  I was able to get this all before noon.  My important discovery was that if I do a project for Rachel she doesn't get bored and asked me what she can do, she'll do her best at watching all of the children, and I get to do a project!

Happy Birthday to Lincoln

This is how Lincoln started his birthday. (We often find him next to our bed in the morning)

 We sang him happy birthday and gave him breakfast in bed.  He's also showing off his gifts in this picture.

 We went to the pool 2x for his birthday and had his requested dinner of spaghetti.  I love easy requests.

 On Saturday we did his birthday part with friends.  Joe did the birthday cake.  This is like the cake his mom made for him when he was little.

The kids and I with the decorations.  We have been remedying summer boredom by doing random things to get ready for the party.  That is why there's excessive detail.  We made pit passes, the Lightening McQueen pinata in the background, the party hats, and colored Disney Cars Pictures.

 Freeze Dance with tires.

 Races

 (Those are their steering wheels)

Musical Tires.

 Cars Lunch

 Time filler story time.  They chose "My Little Pony."  I'm sure there's got to be a connection to Cars there.

Happy Birthday to my sweet little boy!  Lincoln is such a joy to have around. His happiness is contagious.  He's a blessing to our family.

Sunday Fun

 We had left over pipe cleaners from the primary carnival so the kids had fun creating.

...and we just like this dress on Lily.