Parties Coming to an End...

For church the girls wore their matching dresses from Mama Cox.  Embree Claire, for some reason, hates for me to ever, EVER try to take their pictures before church.  I must be ruining playtime or something.

After Mama V's and a quick nap, we headed out to play again. Joe and his mom along with the Heaths came over for some more fun.

I wish I had a video of the night before...where we bounced well past 9 and got into some fun competition. 
These kids can fly through this obstacle!

Grandma and Papa came up for dinner so we could play in the bounce house till closing time. :)

ECV discovered a love of ice (just like her sister!)

There is one huge difference in the girls...examine below...

The girl hates a blade of grass on  her foot and she'll go to such lengths to prevent it (and other strange feeling objects) from touching her feet.

This one however says, "What grass?"

 

 

Two precious girls!

Party Fun!

So while sister was opening presents, Embree Claire was getting introduced to Cheese Doodles. 
She wore them the rest of the day :)

So many awesome, thoughtful gifts!

Sweet cards!

A BARBIE!!!!

and more bounce house fun! By the end Embree Claire was crawling through the entire bottom party!  She was giggling over every obstacle.  She'd crawl over, face plant then hurry along to the next one.

I got this!

A girl on the move!

 

Rapunzel Party-I'm 4!

One quote from the day, "And I'll never be 3 again!"

What an awesome day!  The weather was chilly but it wasn't noticed thanks to the amount of fun and love! Best family, friends and neighbors!

Am I 4?!

It has worked out that for both girl's party eve I've been able to decorate their cakes.  This has been possible because they go hang with Gran Mary, Papa and Jessica. By the time they got home this year, I had one cake done for each and finishing the second. What a huge help that has been!

Sidney Kate was pleased with her Rapunzel Castle...although I explained that if it didn't make it through the night we wouldn't cry, we'd just fix it.

Luckily we tied that bad boy up and it survived the night!

Sidney Kate was lucky this year (like every other year) but this year she actually got to party on her birthday. She was so very excited to turn 4, I think this was the first year she fully understood it all.
When she came out of her room she tripped over the ribbon and asked, "Am I 4?!"
:)
I made her return to her door for a picture...

The first toy on her trip through the house was a new brush-just what she wanted!

After a few more gifts she came to the final one-and someone was waiting for her.  This is her look of shock-oh how that made me happy!

PLUTO RETURNED!!!

She couldn't believe-ultimate surprise! She's talked about him so much.

:)

He left sweet notes and she loved it!

She told me that day that she dreamed about Aunt Linda.  She said she wished Aunt Linda could visit her on her birthday.  I told her that she did-when she came to her in her dream.  I told her that was as close as Aunt Linda could come and she understood.  She knows she can't return but man she sure wishes it a lot.  I know Sarah, Papa, Mama and so many others do too.  It sure melts my heart everytime she asks for her and wonders when "she'll come back to me."

We-Have-a-Kitchen!

Oh my! Gran Mary and Papa got Sidney Kate a kitchen for her birthday!  Chasey stocked it with a ton of food and pots and pans.  Time to start that sister restaurant!

As SKV attempted to open the child proof packaging-ECV went to explore.

Took a long time for SKV to open gifts so ECV familiarized herself with how things worked and were organized. ;)

Good thing someone has the best big sister you could ask for!  She was allowed and encouraged to play with anything!

 

Crazy Hair and Crazy Love

Embree Claire's Crazy Hair
Age 1

Crazy Love for Daddy
Always

 

Sidney Kate's Crazy Hair
Age 6 months

 

Calling My Inner Spiderman

So as soon as I saw this my knee-jerk reaction was to tell her to get down.  Luckily, Kevin stopped me and said, "Let her play."

Pretty sure she was calling her inner Spiderman.  She was watching Ian play, that could have been what made her think of it...that and he was wearing a Spiderman glove :)

Just cheering for sister.

Who doesn't wanna grab that little face!

 

 

In Case You Ever Wonder...

This blog post is for the girls-in case they ever wonder if they had a mommy...you did, she was just usually on the other side of the camera. :)
Courtesy of Daddy...
 

Learning how to give kisses...she goes open mouth, open eyes and just stays there a super long time. Awwww.