Look who's 6!

Six years ago we brought home this tiny girl.

We celebrated Sienna's 6th birthday on Monday.  Unfortunately she woke up feeling sick and spent much of the afternoon like this:

She perked up a bit when the festivities started: dancing to her song ("Brown-eyed girl"), spanking machine, getting measured on the wall, opening presents, handprint on the birthday tablecloth, and cake & ice cream.

Sienna requested a Strawberry Shortcake Cake (as in the character, not the typical dessert).  A Strawberry Shortcake hat was as close as I could get.

Speaking of 6 years...
Ashley has been potty training and is now in underwear during the day.  It has been 6 years since I haven't had to regularly change diapers.  And I'll have about a month to enjoy it before #4 arrives!

Artists in the making

Anyone who knows Sienna knows she loves arts and crafts.  She can spend hours at her desk coloring, cutting and drawing.  This month one of her pieces of school artwork was selected among 12 from her school (2 per grade) to be shown at the Williamson County School's Art Show.  It was held at Nashville's Frist Art Museum.  She definitely gets her artistic talents from her Dad.  Although I'm pretty good at stick figures! 

Here is a link to her artwork.
And here she is at the Art Show.

Funny how a simple drawing can sure make a momma proud.

A few other recent crafts:
A doll, bed, and quilt for Ashley's birthday:

Paper earrings for us all:

Colby is not far behind.  He will also sit forever and draw cars, butterflies, boats, and curious looking people.  And lately he's been using reams of tape for anything and everything.  Gotta love his "smile" in the picture above.

Highlights from February

Valentines Day.  Although Bryan and I did enjoy a date over the Valentines weekend, Sienna probably got the biggest kick out of the holiday.  She made Valentines galore and planned a Valentine party for us at home, after having so much fun at her school party.  She had everyone dress in red or pink, we all had paper hearts added to our clothes, and everyone exchanged Valentines.

Injury.  Colby tried to do a running jump onto his chair and missed.... hitting the table with his lip.  It wasn't pretty, but it's healing nicely.

 

Snow days.  There have been several this season.  We spent one of them at the bowling alley.

 

Dancing.  Bryan went with Sienna to a Daddy-Daughter Dance at her school.  Sienna was so excited and was looking forward to it all week.  And Bryan was a good sport. 

 

 

A birthday.  Ashley turned 2!  We had a couple families over to help celebrate and eat cake and ice cream.

Cabin fever.  We headed out to Percy Warner Park for a little hike.  It was still kind of chilly but everyone was happy just to be outside.