Chloe's Birthday

Well she is now 5 years old. It's like all of a sudden she thinks she's an adult. We went bowling on Sunday night and the game they were playing wasn't working so she's like "I will go tell the guy it's not working." Then last night for her birthday we went to Red Robin for dinner. We had just sat down and the waiter came over. She says "can you guys come sing the Happy Birthday song to me 'cuz it's my birthday today." Very assertive!!

She's also getting very creative. She is making pictures to put in everyone's thank you cards. So each of you gets your own unique Chloe original.

Here's some pictures from her parties. We went to Pizza Caboose with family on Sunday, and Pump It Up on Monday with some of her friends. (oh, side note- her friend Fergus from Preschool was there and she lead him around to all of the adults and introduced him. It was so cute, especially when he went up to shake Chris's hand. The first boy to meet the parents. :- )

CareBear Cake

Well it is hard to believe but my little girl is going to be 5 years old tomorrow. I think time goes by much more quickly when you have kids. I barely remember what she was like as a baby. She now truly fits her name: Chloe: "vibrant one full of life".

Since I made a special cake for Caleb for his birthday I decided to do one for Chloe too. I decided on a Care Bear, and she got to choose which one of the pink or purple ones for me to do. She chose Love A Lot Bear. We even put pink dye in the cake mix to make it a pink/vanilla cake.

Now off to work on the cupcakes for her other party tomorrow. I love frosting so this really is no sacrifice for me :- )

So a little update on the cake. I put the cake in the oven to keep it from little hands, forgot it was in there and turned the oven on. 5 min later when it chimed it was ready I opened the oven door to see the soupy mess of frosting all over the pan and none on the cake!! Well after tasting it and finding out it tasted just fine, Chloe and I headed to the store for more icing. This time we decided on a purple CareBear- Share Bear. I think it turned out pretty good. And Chloe loves it--which is all that matters since it is her birthday.

Chloe's Haircut

So I had just gotten done giving Caleb a haircut last night and was rinsing the hair off of him in the bathtub when Chloe came over and said "I cut my hair". I said a bit loud "WHAT?" She said "I made my hair look good".

So if you know my Chloe I am not surprised by her cutting her hair, actually I am surprised it did not happen sooner. The pictures don't do it justice. And I guess it could be worse. Just something to look back at and laugh about. (Especially since there will be lots of pictures of her with it- considering her birthday is on Monday!!!)


This is what the left side looks like--she now has bangs that hit about a 1/2 in to an inch below her eyebrow. At least I can clip them back. Mind you she has no bangs on the right side :- )

On the right side of her head is a big chunk only about 1 inch long. That's gonna take a while to grow out!!

She still thinks that she just made her hair look good. We did tell her only mommy's and daddy's cut hair..

Carving Pumpkins

So we always buy pumpkins, but we never get around to carving them. Last night Chris got home a little early so we decided it was a good night to carve pumpkins. I did mine the old fashioned way- with the carving tools and a knife. Chris decided to make a really nice face on his and didn't want to mess it up so he went and got his little saw from the garage to help him.

The kids loved watching...not really helping. Chloe tried to touch the guts and seeds but was like.."they're slimey I don't like it." Caleb on the other hand would not touch any of it. I scooped some of the guts out and they brushed his wrist and he freaked out. The pictures of his yuck face do not even do it justice!!

Hope you all are having a great start to the fall.

Caleb's ewwww face.

Mommy trying to get Caleb to touch the pumpkin guts. He said yuck, no way.

Getting ready for the saw.

Chris sawing his pumpkin with Chloe looking on.

Caleb and Mommy's pumpkin.

Caleb adding a few personal touches to the pumpkin.