Smushed Cake Fiestas! (and other updates)

Too tired to put these in the right order, sorry!

My sweet baby growing older, and toothless.

He was sooo excited.

The cousins (and grandparents' dog) at one

of Lia's mini-celebrations.

Here's the devious boy (see below)

Sweet birthday girl.

Notice there is already frosting on the finger!

In our typical over-the-top fashion baby girl got not one cake but three over the course of the past few days! And she happily devoured small slices of all three and even more happily smooshed frosting all over her face, hair, hands and booster seat (as well as anyone who dared to venture close to her). Good thing she loves baths too.

Devious boy also stole a piece of his brother's cake when he wasn't looking. The impatient brothers began the present-opening without us (or the birthday girl) so no real pictures there. Jack has no patience (the boy eats his waffles frozen because he can't bear to wait for them to cook- no idea where he gets such impatience after all I am the epitome of zen-like patience : )

I made it through my first day alone with the two toddlers (okay, it was only half a day) and it went well! She is generally a happy little girl. The sleep (less) monster has reared its head a little. We swore she had an ear infection because she would grab her ears and howl for short periods the last few nights. But nope doc told us "the good news and the bad news is her ears look beautiful". So apparently it's adjustment and attachment related. Lest you think all is sunshine and roses over here I am apparently going to be just as sleep deprived as ever for awhile (ah well, knew it was too good to be true). But otherwise we are happy and well!