happy birthday to you

this little girl just turned 4 today. FOUR? has it really been that long? what a sweet addition to our family she has been. she is smart, spunky, funny, stubborn, a GREAT helper, silly, sweet, happy, etc. i can't imagine our little family without her. she's my little buddy all day long, and she is the best big sister to greyson. she says now that she's 4 she can ride all the big rides at disneyland. and she showed me this morning how much bigger her feet are than last night. i love this girl!!

i was supposed to teach preschool at my house last week, so 2 days before i decided to have her preschool friend birthday party instead of preschool that day. (2 birds with one stone right?) she insisted on a monkey party this year. i found everything super duper cheap online, so monkey party we had! the pinata was fun, until the hang-tag broke off. i finally had to just rip it open and sprinkle candy all over.

 let the girls make monkey cupcakes. fun and easy.

  cute friends. (one cute little face from AZ would sure make this pic complete!)

 greyson has just basked in the glory of all the wrapping/tissue paper this last week!

 found this super easy idea in place of streamers. plastic tablecloths cut lengthwise. a buck a piece...and super cute!

 with nate being on call today (on her bday) we had our little family birthday outing last night. emma chose lowe's extreme airsports...this place is so stinking fun. foam pits under everything. and YES i was too chicken for this trapeeze. not such a big fan of heights. of course caitlin was up there going on it over and over and over.

 flip

 seriously this girl shows me up! she climbed almost to the top and then free-jumped into the foam. crazy child.

 emma the little spider

 nate mid-back-flip

 faceplant

 awwww-dwey-son. lubb you.

 happy birthday sweet girl! may this year bring you all the joy and happiness you so deserve!!

 i think we have a problem. this kid won't crawl, but on his rear he'll scoot his legs around to get where he wants. tonight he was almost doing the splitz trying to get a toy. funny kid. i'm ok with my baby being immobile for a bit longer. i just want to freeze him at this stage forever!