Sophie!!!!!!

A long overdue post about the birth of Sophie Claire Davoren, Amanda and James' sweet little girl! (She was born in January back when I wasn't blogging, and then when we returned home from Florida I promptly started blogging about the trip as to not forget, and then well, you know how these things go). She is so so so sweet!!  The kids are looking forward until her crawling days!

Every time we see her she is so cute I can barely handle it.  I can't wait to babysit her some time! Amanda and James are doing great as new parents and are handling everything really well.

A birthday party for 2!

We had a family birthday party for Henry and Rose.  Henry was dressed up in a party outfit but disappeared about 5 minutes after everyone came over and emerged in his preferred outfit of a Snow White dress.  Then when we were going to eat he took it off so it wouldn't get dirty and continued the party in underwear.  Because Henry didn't have a party with friends like Rose did, we made all of the decorations and the cake themed for Henry's birthday.  

Birthday girl!

Our determined energetic little girl is getting big! 6 years old!!

 We got Rose a balance beam for her birthday!!

Party at Amazing Adventures!

Her favourite dinner: burgers and Caesar  salad

Rose almost 6

making our own memes

Henry-isms

A few things Henry says that I don't want to forget:

The way he says "hair" and "here". He adds an "L" sound to the end--"Hairl", "here-l"

Henry tried on a dress or some sort of fancy thing and then said, "Prince charming!" about himself.

After watching "Inside Out" over and over again he clutched 2 Elsa dolls and said, "My core memories"

Random fun!

Every so often I remember about the blog, and then i realize I should make the effort to blast off a few posts.  I love having the memories, but I also love reading in my spare time, or doing 2 new courses I signed up for ("Dog emotion and Cognition", and "Palaeontology: Theropod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds"---yes more randomness, but this is the stuff I love). Anyway, I feel like I have forgotten to blog so many things so I'll just have to catch up on major events, birthdays, etc.  I even missed the birth of my niece Sophie!! I guess because when we got home from Florida all I thought about doing was writing about the trip.  Sigh.  Life. 

Here's the first time Henry wore gloves this entire winter.  And it was at the very end!!!

I felt sorry for Scout one day so I let her come with us on the school run, and then I took her to the dog park.

Finally took Rose to replace her bowl that I broke.

So many dresses. 

Painting eggs

 New egg painting technique with crayons.