Willow is 4!

Happy Birthday Willow Sage!!!

 

July 1, 2003

 

Age 2

Age 3

(just a month ago..."real" birthday pics to come...)

...and now she's 4!!!  Happy Birthday Princess!!!

Kassi's Birthday

Kassi's Birthday Party ...of course i have pics of the birthday girl and her brothers, but you will have to go to Tabitha's site, because she understandably likes to keep such posts protected.  Ember loving the kitten Ryvre making Ice Cream Willow making Ice Cream Ryvre hitting the Pinata Willow hitting the Pinata Ahh, the booty, at last. Kassi's cake...yes, it did taste as good as it looks! Willow and Ember with Baby Toly

The St. Louis Zoo

More Pics and Easter

Roll of film from February-Easter (lots better than phone pics): Ryvre pushing Willow at the park in Hot Springs Girls on a tank Willow posing on the bath house fountain Ryvre over-posing on said fountain a much better pic of the ceiling Checking out a hot spring (you'd think they discovered it) Ember, hunting eggs at Rachel's and Jack's house Willow and Ryvre hunting eggs at the marina Photo Op...Ember has figured out there's chocolate in the eggs

Boy Hair

	Awesome news: we have a new camera! So... Hair! These were intended as "before" pics, because Ryvre has been asking me for months to get a haircut. But once we got to the salon, and started looking at books, he decided he only wanted a trim.  i'm secretly thrilled he's keeping his gorgeous locks, shhh...

Hot Springs

Here are some pics of the vacation we took in Hot Springs, Arkansas, well over a month ago.  Please excuse the poor quality, they were taken on a phone as our digital camera is broken Ryvre picking up quartz behind our condo Ember running around on the back porch a really poor image of the stained glass ceiling in one of the bathhouses...something about Neptune and nymphs... Ryvre and Willow at the bathhouse...the fountain (directly below the stained glass) is very cool too, but you can't tell by the pic.  It depicts a Native American myth, if i remember correctly. That would be a tank behind the kids.  It's a memorial in the middle of a little park we visited every day.

More Milestones

Ryvre can add!

i showed Ryvre how to add by ones yesterday; he got it on the first try!!!
He needs a little more practice writing his numbers (threes are sometimes backwards, and 5's look like S's), but besides that he doesn't need any help.  He's doing it in "number sentence" form too, so he's not just counting pictures. 

*proud mama*

Willow is learning to write numbers; she's just tracing them now, but she has been counting to twenty for quite awhile.

Ember is saying some important words like "cup" and "poop" (she says it like "poo-ep") but she still says "mmm" when she's hungry. 

At least SHE tells me when she's poopy, unlike her older sister.