Happy 6th Birthday Caeden Sean!

Tadhg

Tadhg Conor

almost 10 months

Alannah

Alannah Caileen

2 1/2 yrs

just one of her curls........ just cause they are so cute

Mama-in-training

This is a familiar sight with Alannah around, she is often carrying her baby, Molly, or another one of the dolls, or a stuffed animal of some sort, around with her. Just going about her everyday life, sometimes actually playing with them, but just as often playing something else. Like below, she and Charlotte are having fun in the dirt filling and dumping and whatever else little girls play in the dirt, but there's Alannah, playing and carrying her baby. Since I am often carrying a baby around while working around the house, I am guessing she figures it is part of life. I figure it's good training to know how to do things well with one hand or carrying a baby, so she might as well start early ;-) 

Boys and trees

The boys haven't had much tree climbing opportunity..... they discovered yesterday though they can climb this one in our front yard. They had fun going up and down and back up again. I guess climbing trees is part of life with boys and they're going to enjoy it! The first time Caeden went up he called me over and told me he was stuck, I told him "well, there's no way I am coming up after you, so you got up there, you can figure it out and get down!" Didn't take him too long to figure it out. Colm, on the other hand, is a bit more of a dare-devil then Caeden is and throughly enjoyed seeing how high he could get! 

Alannah

These are Alannah's friends - aptly named Bear and Bunny. She loves to sleep with both, or either ;-) Unless she's in a grumpy mood she's usually happy with at least one. Though she's pretty good about keeping track of them and knowing where both are. Every now and again, she "has to have" one or the other. Bunny is most frequently found wandering with her. It's rather cute since she's had Bunny in her bed since she was just tiny, but until the last couple months was not overly attached to it. Bear she got for her first birthday and she attached to that pretty soon after and has been her sleeping companion consistently since then. 

Not shown is her "best" friend, the paci ;-) She still takes it to sleep, or whenever she can sneak it. Though we work pretty hard to convince her to keep it in the crib, she often tells me mid-morning she wants to go sit in her crib for awhile...... just to have it. 

Yep, they love each other!