Happy birthday to Mama, happy birthday to youuuuu

There was cake...


There was homemade ice cream...




And there was someone who tried to conceal the evidence...


Happy (post) birthday to the most wonderful person I know.

There is no place quite so cozy...

...as a home you have built under the dining room table. Complete with pillows, blanket, toy elephant and toddler sister.

So easy, it practically drives itself

Lucy shows off the ease of driving the minivan. Driving an automatic feels like child's play to her, since she normally drives my car, which is a manual.

Lucy's first 5-word sentence: "I watch boo coo too!" (Where, in this case, boo coo translates to Blue's Clues.)

Attack of the Disney Princesses!

So, much to my (and a certain cousin's) chagrin, Ella has latched on wholeheartedly to the Disney Princesses. She has the Disney Princesses figurines, seen Disney Princesses on Ice (which, sadly, I missed), and has Cinderella I, II, and the critically-acclaimed Cinderella III.

And now, she wants to be a princess when she grows up... instead of an artist or a scientist, which she previously wanted to be.

(sigh) Aim a little higher, hon...