Birthday Boy!

Daniel frequently gets up early enough to eat breakfast with his Dad. Since he saw his presents so early we let him open one. He was very excited.

These are the toys we put on his cake.

Later in the day our cousins came over to decorate cupcakes and play a little. Our cousins were so excited to show Daniel his present that they opened it for him!

He was very excited about the new Monster Truck.

Decorating cupcakes.

The cupcakes were very tasty! (At least the frosting.)

We had some great cupcake decorators.

Decorating Daniel's cake.

The finished product.

Eliza sat alone for about 20 seconds without any help. She just wanted to help make Daniel's birthday a special day.

"Look at all these presents!"

Daniel was so excited!

Check out the new loot.

"Happy Birthday to Me!"

Birthday Boy eating cake!

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I love the pause at the end of the song before the cheer.

Muir Woods

This weekend we were trying to decide what to do with our Saturday and Andy thought it would help if he and the boys did a little cleaning. I thought it was so cute!

If a picture is worth a 1,000 words this one would say it.

The boys love to help their Dad.

We decided to go hiking in Muir Woods. Some friends told us how pretty it was there, so we went to check it out. It is amazing! They have Coastal Redwoods, Giant Sequoia, and Douglas Furs.

When trees fall across the trails they just cut the section blocking the path out and leave the rest on the sides. Some of them were pretty big.

I kept thinking we should be looking for fairs and fair rings. It seems almost magical there.

Several of the trees had holes in them that the boys loved to "hide" in. They were caused by a fire that burned the center of the tree. The bark is thick enough to protect most of the tree and keep it alive.

Hiking through to woods.

A banana slug

"Hiding" again.

Eliza took a little snooze during the hike.

Getting ready for lunch. There were chipmunks running all over the place. There were signs saying not to feed the chipmunks, so we tried not too. One climbed right up next to Andy and tried to take some bread off of the plate. I grabbed one side of the bread. We had a tug-a-war with the bread and I won. Andy said it was funny to watch me fight a chipmunk for a piece of bread!

The boys loved all the bear statues!

See any similarities?

There were some beautiful spring flowers in the woods.

April 10, 2010

Eliza at 5 Months

The last five months have been a lot of fun. Eliza is truly an angel baby. She is always so happy when she wakes up. We know that if she is not sleeping well something is wrong.

Just today she sat alone for about 15 seconds.
She loves sweet potatoes and peas are alright.
She has started to sleep from about 7 pm until 5am before waking to eat.
She loves to play with her brothers and finds other babies fascinating.

Her hair is finally long enough for me to put a clippy in it. She moves her head around quite a bit, so I have to have the boys distract her to get them in.

Thanks for the clippies Aunt Janna!

April 13, 2010