Rainbow party!

After winning a gymnastics birthday party at the girl's day care we put it to good use. Caroline and her friend Ruthie had a great party yesterday. Caroline's gymnastics teacher Gabby came to our house and was a blast! All the girls from church came. We had rainbow goldfish, jello layered in rainbow colors, rainbow fruit skewers, and a rainbow birthday cake (with six layers, of course). Ruthie's mom Amanda brought her amazing artist touch to super fun decorations. (The balloons are still hanging from the ceiling).   What a great time!!

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Caroline is five!

We ha a great day yesterday celebrating Caroline's 5th birthday. She started the day with a new dress from Nana (aren't they cute?) at church. She then got to do a scavenger hunt (with pictures) to find her new bike! It was actually warm enough here for her to go for a bike ride. With a few spills (nothing hurt--way to go Daddy for the catches) she had a great time! 

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Who sang for Flock of Seagulls?

Guess who is our daughter...and who sang for FOS?

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I am 5!

Today is a day that The Lord has made! It's Caroline's 5th Birthday and we are starting the morning off right with scones, strawberries and  hot chocolate delivered through Scott and Debs Construct a Straw kit. 

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It's 2:30 in the morning....

After crying off and on tonight we deduced this little girl was very very very hungry. So were all up, sans Caroline who is snoring, and having eggs and toast. 

This was never in a parenting book. 

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Rainbow unicorn; Bear

When I asked Caroline what she wanted to be for Halloween she looked at me like I had lost my marbles and said "of course a rainbow unicorn."  Of course, why didn't I think of that? Thank heavens Amazon sells just such a costume for $18.00. She also picked out Anna's costume since Anna is known as either "Anna banana" or "Anna bear." But I was informed that a banana costume isn't as fun as a bear costume. So there you have it.

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Pumpkins

Every Halloween needs some pumpkins carved, so we got in on the action. Though, in full disclosure Anna just colored on hers (and, let's be honest she mostly just ate the marker). But we had fun and our pumpkins now have faces. 

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Family walk

With all of this nice weather we have Ben going on family walks after dinner. Last night Caroline thought that it was important to bring her baby doll along. So we had a double stroller parade.

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First day of ballet

I am just miserably behind in the happenings of our family. (I am going to blame moving). But here is my first attempt to get back on track. Here is a picture of Caroline on her first day of ballet class. We enrolled her in a fun little studio down the street. She was really scared to go to do something new. But she had a great time! And doesn't she look adorable?

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Anna's birthday

I know we are way way behind on our blog. But we have to share our adorable little girl who is no longer a baby. She had a wonderful birthday, complete with a new sprinkler for the new back yard, amazing friends, cake and her very first pair of pink converse shoes (courtesy of our teen friends Cuatro and Griffin). 

Here are some pictures of our adorable little girl

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Happy 4th of July!

We spent the day celebrating out independence having fun! We went to the 4th of July parade downtown. We came home for naps. Then off to a party at our friends the Hursts. And, of course we ended the day with fireworks overlooking the Potomac. Anna was a little upset she couldn't catch them but otherwise it was a success!

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Caroline: Full of Fun

Caroline has had a lot of fun over the past few days. 

She got VIP taxi service at the hotel from Papa

She got to play blocks with her second cousin

And she made her sister laugh and played with her!

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I am growing up

Less then one month and I will be one!

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Delaware...The Weekend After

We headed to Wilmington to get out of the house while ours was on the market. We saw lots of flowers at 2 homes previously owned by the DuPont family. Here are a few pictures of the trip!

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He is risen indeed!

Happy Easter!
We took a brief respite from getting our house ready to go on the market to celebrate the much more exciting resurrection of our Savior. We all got up early with Caroline rescuing the plastic egg with the word "alleluia" in it from the linen closet so we could all be excited about the resurrection. (We then moved on to finding Easter baskets with candy and gifts. Of course, everyone needed a pre breakfast chocolate snack.)
After a lovely church service we enjoyed a brief (i.e. just drizzling but threatening to rain so hurry) Easter egg hunt at the Robertsons. As you can see, Caroline successfully found eggs (Anna slept through the whole thing). I also managed to get Anna's first bow in her hair. And, might I add, it stayed there all morning!! It was a big day. But after a potluck lunch we came home and, for the adults in the house, had the first restful nap time in weeks!

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Ready for Easter

We have dyed the eggs, gotten the dresses, read the Good Friday story several times, hidden the Alleluia and just made and hidden the Easter baskets. I think we are ready.

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I can't crawl

Anna can army scoot with the best of them. But she hasn't mastered (or really attempted) "real" crawling. I think she got so fast at the army crawl that she doesn't see the use of other forms of crawling. Imagine our surprise this morning when we looked over a few moments ago to see this. The bottom of the coffee table is 3-4 inches of the ground. Apparently it is perfect for crawling over. She is starting to eye the stairs. I'm scared.

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Dinner with Daddy

Caroline and I went to dinner and Lowes tonight. We ate fine Panera fare with Caroline having the Mac n Cheese with yogurt side dish (and some of Daddy's chips). Daddy had the excellent Bacon Turkey Bravo sandwich with some chips (someone else ate a bunch of them). We drank fine glasses of water and had yummy Easter egg cookies for dessert. Then we headed to Lowes for the real action...and after some time...Caroline fell asleep :-)

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