February Construction Progress

Happy Birthday Lily

Daddy made Lily’s favorite breakfast for her birthday – banana chocolate chip pancakes.        It wasn’t long and the phone began ringing with the first call of the day from her BFF, Margaret Anne.  I love hearing these two chat away.     Lily Bean you amaze me more and more everyday.  You are creative, witty, polite, caring, generous and loving.  You have a gentle spirit.  You are a deep thinker.  I could not have asked for a better big sister for Sarah Ellen.  She is very blessed to always have you on her side. 
You are riding your bike now like a champ.  You love to color, paint and all crafts.  You LOVED art class this year.  You are a fabulous kindergartener that loves to learn.  Your teacher says that you love science and reading.  Handwriting isn’t your favorite, but I’m pretty sure you got that honest from your daddy.   You read every night before you go to bed.  You would stay up all night if we didn’t make you turn out your light. 
I love you little girl and I can’t wait to see what each year has yet to bring.    

Lily’s Birthday Party

Lily couldn’t wait to have her party at the jump castle this year.   We were joined by her classmates and friends from church for a jumping good time.   Lily had been saying for several months that she was going to go down the big slide.  Here she goes up…   We soon got word that she wasn’t coming down.  Here goes Daddy up…   And here they come down!   Little sister had to go too!   Time for cake.  Lily vas very excited about a dog theme for her party this year.  She picked her cake out all by herself.

Happy Birthday my sweet six year old.  You fill us with joy each and everyday

Celebrating Lily!

On a weekend visit to Mimi and Papa’s, we were able to celebrate Lily’s sixth birthday with them.   And, of course, Aunt Kami has to buy presents for Sarah Ellen too.

Happy Birthday sweet Bean!

She’s off…

Just a few days shy of her sixth birthday, Lily Bean started riding her bike all by herself.  The venture began with a slight fit over her helmet.  Sweet thing – her anxiety tends to come out as anger and fussiness.  I have no idea where she got that trait.  It didn’t take long, though, and she was off. 

We have had so much fun riding in our neighborhood and the county park.  This girl is growing up…and fast!

We happened to be visiting Mimi and Papa at the time.  Pretty cool that she learned to ride on the same street I did!

Car Riders

The girls have been very tolerant car riders lately as we have drug them all over Charleston looking at houses.   We are looking at house colors, brick, landscaping and all the other gazillion things we have to pick out. 

One afternoon I turned around to find Sarah Ellen with this crazy hairdo.