Pictures from Lilly's princess birthday party!

Here's the video I took after dinner on Sophia's birthday.  She wanted to wear that Fancy dress for the special occasion. 

Lilly - playing outside

Lilly wanted to play in the sprinklers one day while Sophia was still at school.  She changed into her suit and ran outside.  I grabbed the camera and followed her. She didn't realize I was taking a video and I think she was simply posing for me.  Ha ha ha.

Here's another quick one.  She was pretending to "burn her butt". 

Here's Lilly wrapped in a towel after spending only 1 minute in the sprinklers (above). We went back into the house immediately following this...

 
Here's Lilly sitting in the sandbox.  Day 1....before the sand got rained on.  Pristine sand.

 

Here they are playing with a water squirter hopscotch pad that Sophia got for her birthday.  A favorite! 

This is the new swimming suit I got Sophia for her birthday.

Sadie, just relaxing after a long day.

Sophia, still in love with her Lamby after 6 years. 

Lilly, striking a pose for the camera (notice the purse around her shoulder!)

Sophia's first 100-piece puzzle done at home.  She did one at school before, but not at home. Lilly and I helped.  

More birthday party pictures.

Here's a link to some more photos from Sophia's birthday party.  share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaMmrNk0ctWLyQ

Summer's 4th birthday party

Summer is our neighbor and she may be in Lilly's class next year.  She had her party at the Bounce House.  The girls had so much fun.  Sophia keeps asking me to go back.  She really thought I would take her on her actual birthday.  She was a bit presumptuous. 

Lilly was grinning from ear to ear the whole party. 

She's mastered this tricycle and it's too small for her!  She needs a real bike with training wheels now.  When we were at Toys R Us shopping for Sophia's birthday presents I put her on a 12 inch bike it was a perfect fit for her. 

I just wonder if I should get the 14 inch bike.  We didn't try one of those. Guess we'll have to go back and look again.

Mia and Sophia

Taken at a playdate at our house a few weeks ago.  This was the night of the big sleepover.  Sophia's first!

Mia's dad has been in different states this school year doing his final training for the CIA.  His graduation took place in Maryland a few weeks ago and Mia's mom asked if she could spend the night with us so she didn't have to miss school on Thursday.  Mia usually comes home from school with us on the Wednesday nights that we have Girl Scouts, so it was no problem for her to stay over that night.

 The girls fell asleep around 9:30 which isn't too bad if you ask me.  But getting three kids dressed for school the next morning was something!  Mia was worse than my girls about procrastinating everything (eating breakfast, getting dressed, turning off the tv, gathering your school things, etc.)

Sophia is 6!

She turned 6 on Monday. We celebrated her birthday party with her friends on Saturday afternoon at Jungle Golf. Her favorite part was the arcade room. I think she "won" a little bouncy ball...go figure.

Anyway, there were quite a few girls in our group. Lilly had her friend Carlie there to pal around with and Mia also brought her younger sister along.  Riley's older sister, Taylor came along.  Each of the girls did a great job golfing!  They all said they had a blast. 

Rating:  5 stars  

 Sophia, Haley, Riley, Elizabeth

 Lilly, Sophia, Elizabeth, Haley, Carlie, Riley, Mary Price

 Adrianna, Lillie, Mia, Charlotte, Taylor

 Sophia, Adrianna, Riley, Haley, Elizabeth

 

Adrianna, Elizabeth, Mia, Riley

 Sophia, Mary Price, Haley

 Taylor, Sophia, Addie, Carlie, Haley, Adrianna, Allie, Elizabeth, Mia, Riley, Lillie, Charlotte

Victoria's Birthday Party

 It seems like most of little girls that we know have spring and summer birthdays.  Lilly went to Chuck E Cheese a few weeks ago to celebrate Victoria's 4th.  Victoria is in her class at Beach Manor. 

Sophia went to a Super Woman birthday party last weekend and the weekend before the both Sophia and Lilly went to Haley and Carlie's joint birthday party at The Bounce House. 

This coming weekend we have two more parties and then we'll be celebrating Sophia's on May 12th and then Lilly's on the 26th.  WOW.

Busch Gardens

Will took the day off from work yesterday (with the exception of participating in a 4:00 conference call), and we packed up the car and headed to Williamsburg to Busch Gardens.  The weather was ideal in the mid-sixties.  We all had a super good time.  Lilly, Sophia and I will go back a few times this summer...and I learned yesterday that I can actually take both of them myself.  While Will was on his call, we rode tons of rides as a threesome.  Sophia is brave enough to sit by herself on some of the less threatening rides. 

More fun during spring break

On Wednesday after lunch I took the girls to the pool at the rec center.  We had terrible timing with the rec center spring break camp, but let me back up and explain a bit. 

Lilly is not confident in the water and doesn't like to even get wet above her waist.  She spends most of the time on the steps or standing beside the pool looking around.

Sophia, on the other hand, is a fish in the water. She needs lessons because she doesn't swim with her face in the water, but she has a mighty doggy paddle though and can certainly hold her own.

Fifteen minutes after we got in the pool and I finally adjusted to the chill, an entire gaggle of kids Sophia's age....I'd say there were about 30 of them!....came running out of the locker room and all jumped into the pool at the same time. Lilly was terrified.  I was annoyed. Sophia happily got lost in the crowd and I saw her jumping and splashing with tons of kids she didn't know and she was having a blast!   She even ran into a friend from the afternoon Kindergarten class at Beach Manor.

Lilly and I eventually got out of the pool, wrapped up in our towels and sat on the side and watched.  Sophia didn't want to leave. After the whole group of kids left I let her stay another 15 minutes before I "forced" her get out.  It was a good thing, I guess, because when we were in the locker room changing into street clothes a group of 15 teenage girls came strolling in for their opportunity to swim.  I can only assume that 15 teenage boys were in the men's locker room ready to take over the pool. 

Yesterday we spent the day with Haley and Carlie.  Yesterday was Haley's 6th birthday and today is Carlie's 4th birthday.  Yep, they are one day apart. 

We went to a super fun playground at Mt. Trashmore in the morning and then spent at least 2 hours at Chic-fil-A followed by a trip to the mall to ride the carousel.  The girls had a great day.  Here are some really cute pictures.

Children's Museum

After delivering our goodies to the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth yesterday morning, I took the girls to the Children's Museum.  We've been there a few times already and I think we'll wait a long time before we go back.  We did the whole thing in about an hour and then decided to take another trip back through to our favorite displays.  Sophia ran into a friend, Avneet, from her afternoon class.

Here's some pictures from our day. 

A good deed

Yesterday Sophia, Lilly and I delivered the Build-a-Bear bears and 38 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to the Naval Hospital, specifically the pediatric unit.

Sophia was so proud.