One more time...

The last day of the marathon 5th birthday celebration....

Five-a-palooza

Well, the 5th birthday celebration spanned a good couple days, and we still have the Jones May birthday party next weekend..

We started with getting her new bike last Sunday.
Then, on her actual birthday on Thursday, she had pretzel rods at pre-school, and got special birthday cookies and a balloon from Ms. Suzanne.  Then it was birthday dinner at Red Robin - with birthday sundae for dessert..

Then, on Saturday we had a full day.. Granny took Sydney to American Girl - Sydney chose Kit and Toasty the dog

Then the Westchester Plonas came for lunch and cake so that we could celebrate with Rosie, who is the best sport ever about sharing her birthday! Then they hit the road so that Rosie could get back for her first softball game under the lights.

Then, the Moonises came to have dinner and ice cream cake with us.. They are always fun to hang with, and Daniel cried when it was time for them to go..

And on Sunday, we rested!

Daniel's first date...

With his Grandma Sue :)

They went to the Prince William County Model Railroad Club open house down in Quantico. Apparently it's not just a model railroad depot but an active train station too. So the Amtrak AND several freight trains rolled through. Apparently Daniel kept telling his grandma, "Just 5 more minutes...."

Florida - 2012!

We had a terrific time in Florida this year - going to the beach and swimming in the pool with granny and poppy, and adventuring off to Disney world! The kids were champs on 2 very long days, but I can honestly say a great time was had by all.

Sydney met her favorite princess, Belle....

As we were waiting for out turn to meet each princess, Daniel said he didn't want to talk to any of them. I didn't push it and just focused on taking pictures of Sydney as she met each one. Well we finished with Cinderella and moved on to Belle and all of a sudden I looked back and there was Daniel chatting up Cinderella all by himself. He said, "when I'm 1000, I'm going to be a......... giant".. He was a big hit with everyone else in line and got a big laugh! Then he announced loudly that he was done..So apparently Cinderella is his favorite :)

We had breakfast the next morning at Chef Mickeys and saw all the "key" characters - Mickey, Minnie, Donald Duck, Goofy and Pluto.. The kids had a great time :)

And, no trip to St Augustine is complete without a trip to Marineland to see the dolphins... We got a special tour to see their new baby dolphin!

Special thanks to Granny and Poppy for hosting us. Getting to go to such a special place on vacation is really a treat!

We love to party!

Our grandma sue turned 70 this past week so we herded all the grandkids and grandmom to the local picture people.. The pictures turned out really cute and I was proud to be part of such a nice family.. Then it was on to Great American Buffet - where they are happy to accept a group of 25 that includes 10 kids - yowsa :)

Crazy cousins!

Boys VS Girls

So since our trip to the movies a few weeks ago, Beauty And The Beast is pretty big in our house right now. We've been watching the movie and listening to the music in the car non stop. I love how both kids really enjoy the music and are working hard at learning all the words to all the songs, and they are always asking when the current song appears in the movie.

The funny part is how different they are. Sydney's favorite song is "Beauty and the Beast/Tale as old as Time"... Very girly...

Daniel's favorite song is "Kill the Beast" (otherwise known as the mob song). Very boyish...

But they both thoroughly enjoy saying "Peabo" over and over when we listen to the duet with Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson :)