Happy 10th Birthday Abrianna

Abby looks concerned.

Blowing out the trick candles.

Always more fun with friends.

Birthdays!

Abrianna has been taking cake decorating at co-op. She made me ( mommy) my birthday cake this year.

She was helping little sister learn the basket weave.

Happy 3rd Birthday Caleb!

Caleb's third birthday

The day of Caleb's third birthday was spent running errands in town. He had a post-op appointment to check his teeth. Then we met up with Uncle Reggie as a surprise at the Taqueria. Then Uncle Reggie took us to Iceburgs. After that all of us went to the Walla Walla clinic for Abby's hip x-rays. The pictures are from stopping at Lion's Park to play for awhile. Long day. Good day.

New teeth

Silver fluoride treated teeth. When he was 18 months old his teeth started rapidly to decay over about 6 weeks. He was too little to sedate and properly fill them so the decay was stopped with silver fluoride.

Now he had a tooth that was badly decayed break in half so the dentist thought it would be best to remove it. I also asked for the black to be fixed. The front 3 are capped and the other black areas filled.

As he is as big as me...

I started to compliment Lucas on his nice looking pair of jeans today when I realized they were MY jeans! Oops. Guess he could swipe mine in a pinch ( he was pretty horrified he was wearing his MOM'S pants).

Easter at the Church.

"There's an egg daddy!"

Here's another one.

So this is what's inside it.

Chocolate!

Stickers!

The brave adventuring 2 year old.

Last night after I had arrived home from Ladies Bible study, Rick told me a story with a funny, sheepish look on his face. " I put K-bug to bed about 8:30 and shut the door to our bedroom. About 45 min later I heard scratching at the veranda door. Darn cat! Now it knows how to scratch at the door too!" I thought. I went through our bedroom to use the bathroom and noticed it was really cold. Upon closer inspection, I noticed that the slider door was open and Caleb was gone. I went to the living room and opened the veranda door to find a chilled, wet, and happy boy asking to come back inside." Rick showed me Caleb very wet and muddy jeans. He apparently was playing in the baby yard in the dark happily. The story left me feeling sick and at the same time incredibly thankful.
(We do have wolves around here.) I am so grateful he didn't wander off and that it was warmer last night than its been. Again, I think parenting is about near misses.

Practicing up on his faces- takes after daddy and big brother.

Little dude.

Peek a boo!

Happy birthday to you!

His candle tipped over and put itself out on his hand.

He was screaming, "No! No!" and batting at it till daddy took it away and blew out the mean old candle again.

I flipped the candle over and told him to lick it off. He took that too a whole new level and bit off a big mouthful. When I told him it wasn't food and to spit it out, he burst into embarrassed tears.