Some recent ones for you.

(Annie loves Daddy.)

Asher turned 5 recently.  I could not seem to get to a birthday blog post, I know!   Five must be a big deal for him, because he got a BB gun this year and woke up the day after his birthday asking to do chores every morning.

We had another birthday this month:  a sweet girl turned 7.  I am often so surprised that another birthday has come for each child, but here is another year gone.

Charlotte loves to read the dictionary.  We think it’s wonderful!

She says that 7 doesn’t feel much different than 6 yet, but the jury is still out on that.  We celebrated her birthday with a little “Hot Chocolate party”, and invited a few friends over.

She did most of the planning, baking and food prep for her little party.  It was a lot of fun, and I can’t imagine many more fun ways to celebrate a birthday than to get dressed up and eat cake and cookies and hot chocolate with some friends and your sister.

And here are some shots of a rapidly-growing, getting-busier-and-moving-faster every day 8-month-old baby.