Aoife's 5th Birthday!!

 Monday was Aoife's 5th Birthday!!!  It was a Monday so we opened presents before school!  She couldn't wait to for Daddy to come home from PT so she opened one present right when she came downstairs!  It was Crackle - the dragon from Sophia!  After that, we had birthday pancakes and then opened the rest of the presents when Daddy got from PT.  Aoife was so happy to get so many beautiful presents from our families!  I met Aoife at school with rice crispie treats for her class instead of cupcakes and after that we stayed at school to have lunch with Aidan and Emmy.  It turned out that the kids were dismissed early because of impending bad weather (that never materialized) but we all got to spend a fun afternoon together!  After dinner, we had chocolate birthday cake and then played outside with the bubbles that Grama sent! 
Happy Birthday Aoife!!

 A Zarina costume!!

 Baby peapod for her backpack!

 Pascal!

 Aoife at school with Bonnie:

 Photobomb by Pascal!!

 Bubbles!!

Pancakes are Super Tasty

Declan has been a little bit under the weather for the past day or so.  He's getting his second top tooth and he really pays for each one - poor little guy!  He woke up from his afternoon nap yesterday with a bit of a fever and then two bites into dinner barfed the entire contents of his digestive tract onto his high chair.  Aidan almost lost his dinner as well!

Declan went directly into the bath and actually ate some of my chicken pot pie while I ate my dinner sitting next to the bathtub.  The other three ate together downstairs with minimal arguing AND cleaned up their own dishes before joining us upstairs.  I think that was the first time that I ate my dinner sitting on the bathroom floor - pretty good that I made it to kid #4!

He was super hungry all night and decided that apple pancakes looked WAY better than mangoes with oatmeal for breakfast.  He loved the pancakes and seemed to have no issues with the texture at all.  He just can't handle lumps in the food that I spoon feed him but he does OK now with goldfish - and pancakes evidently!  He's going to be 10 months on Tuesday.  I can't believe the time is going so quickly.  I'm savoring every little moment with him, knowing that he's the last one.