Our Little Girl is 3!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANJA

Our baby girl turned three on September 11th and she had a fun day celebrating!

Anja wanted to have a birthday lunch with her friend Kylee. The meal of choice was pizza and we decided a heart shaped pizza would be fun. Carter enjoys making silly faces in photos.

After lunch the girls decorated their own cupcakes. They LOVED it!
The had fun posing for pictures and eating them too!

Kylee posing with her cupcake.

That evening we celebrated as a family. Anja had fun trying to blow out all her candles and eating her cupcake birthday cake. Yummy!

We just love Anja to pieces and are so happy she is a member of our family.
She is definitely our All-Girl child. She loves to play dress-up, make cookies, tend to her dollies, go to ballet, carry her purses, play with her ponies, and have picnics. She is also a great big sister, as she watches out for Fischer's well-being often. She loves to laugh, read books, and as any girl can...show some sassyness and passion about various things in her life.

Happy Birthday Anja!

Celebrating Fischer's Birthday

Fischer is 1Fischer turned one almost a month ago, but that's how slow I've been on uploading pictures. This was our little Fischer on his (actual) birthday.

The cakes that were made for Fischer.
The orange one is a fish...just in case you couldn't tell.

Fischer really enjoyed getting into the cake!

On Fischer's birthday, I took the kids to the Oregon Zoo.

1st Day of Preschool

Anja on her 1st day.

We picked out her outfit last night, from the pile of new school clothes. We made sure they got washed and she was so excited to put them on this morning. Her shirt is navy blue and has two small scottie dogs on it wearing outfits that match her pants. She LOVES it!!

Anja is notorious for taking out her hair clips and often loosing them. We talked today about keeping them in. Happy to report...she didn't touch her hair clips. Yeah!

Carter also enjoyed picking out his new clothes, wearing his new earth vest (the patch on the front), and his 'cool new shoes!' He is our experienced preschool kid...this is his third and final year of preschool. Yesterday he said, 'yeah, Anja is coming with me to kindergarten.' I replied that it was actually preschool; kindergarten will be next year. 'Oh, I'm just being silly. Yes, kindergarten is next year.'

Carter and Anja loved posing for pictures this morning.

Anja running...so excited!!

Carter waiting for the other kids to arrive.

The end of the first day. Carter and Anja were excited to see Fischer (who was waiting in the car for them) and tell me all about their day!

A cute proud parent moment...when I got there to pick them up, one of the teachers smiled and said, 'oh I don't think we want to let them go, they are just too cute!' And she remarked that you wouldn't have known it was their first day of school...they did great!

Mommy in Training

Anja likes to get our her kitchen things, set her baby up, and proceed to feed her baby. She loves taking care of her babies. It is darling to watch. When Fischer was a little baby she loved to help care for him. Anja likes having her own room so that she can play house and not have the boys toys around.

Here is Anja taking a bite for herself, and I'll admit...when I would feed my babies, I would have a snack of my own too!

A great sister momemnt...letting her brother get in on the action. I was happy to see Anja letting Fischer participate in the 'play house' game. Great job sharing!

A video of Anja and Fischer eating pretend food together.

New Moon

I just watched the official trailer for New Moon, which comes out on 11.20.09!!! I'm really excited! I get to see it on the 23rd...hooray for a day off of work!!! Check out the trailer here. It is wonderful...makes me want to read the book again!