Reagan's big girl bed

Look! I can touch my toes to my forehead!

Sunday December 12, we took the side off Reagan's bed so she can climb in and out herself. She has been doing fine sleeping in the bed, we've only found her sleeping on the floor once, but it takes her forever to actually get to sleep!  She pulls the rocking chair up to the side, sits in it and spreads out books all over her bed and reads. Or she throws things over the gate in the doorway into the hall.  She opens and closes the door, until finally around 9:00-9:30 she's asleep.

Thanksgiving sweet potatoes

This year Reagan wanted to help make something. She was so cute because normally she's occupied with something else and doesn't have the patience to stand and help measure or bake anything.  When I was making the sweet potatoes, she climbed up next to me and wanted to help so she squished them all up and helped dump all the ingredients together, she was so proud of herself and it was fun to bake something with her too.

Cheeburger Cheeburger

Traditional Cheeburger Cheeburger birthday pics

Payton is 5!

Arial Castle Birthday Cake

Opening presents

with Reagan and her friend Keriana before busting the pinata

playing in the Barbie pool

I cannot believe my Payton is 5! She was so excited for her birthday this year and was counting down even before Halloween.  Being at preschool with the other kids, she knew about different toys and asked for a pillow pet for her birthday, she has slept with "Elizabeth" the unicorn almost every night since.  Our friends Paul and Becky gave her a Fancy Nancy who now has her own canopy bed, just like Nancy in the book.  She has played and created and glued with all her new art supplies, and worn all combinations of her new clothes and play shoes.  Yesterday I helped her with the bead art, counting out the colors and putting them on to make Ariel. She had a great day and is such a big girl!

Pinata making

showing off the mess she made

Reagan helped too

notice the bench and deck, huge mess!

Payton wanted a pinata for her birthday.  Without candy they are at least $20 so Tung had the idea to make one.  I'm always up for a project, so we did. We used 2 balloons and mixed together flour and water and made paper mache.  It was a lot of fun, I knew it would be messy but had no idea it would be so bad.  It took 3 washes and a good soak to get all the paper mache out of their clothes!  They weren't big pinata's but they worked, it's a great way to re-purpose the Halloween candy when your birthday is near Halloween!