Everyone eats cake!

Everyone eats cake, but Ava loves, loves, loves her cake!

Happy Birthday Ava!

Celebrating Ava's third birthday with games, pinata, dancing, and cake!   Happy third birthday Ava! 

Beach toes

An early spring heat wave got us out of the house to escape the heat and we headed to the beach!  Lauren loves to play in the sand and is getting braver about getting deeper in the water.  She had a great time running in and out of the waves and kept wanting to go deeper and deeper. 

A beautiful spring heat wave! 

Crazy Hair Day!

Lauren loved crazy hair day at school as part of the Dr. Seuss birthday celebration week.

A style of her own

Lauren's strong will means that we very carefully pick our battles with her.  So if she wants to go to Farmer's Market dressed like this.......   This is not a battle we choose to engage in.  

Legos, animals, and cousins!

The siblings and cousins went to a San Diego vacation right after Christmas.  Lauren was so excited to see Kirra.  I told her that we would see Kirra at Legoland.  When we pulled up, she saw Legoland hotel (which looks like a castle) and said, "Mama, Kirra lives here?" 

 It was great to see that the cousins had a great time hanging out with each other!

We all spent the night in La Jolla and headed to the Wild Animal Park the next day.   Another fun day for the kids.  One of the goals of the day was to take a picture of Oma and Engkong with all the grandkids in one picture.  After m&m bribes and adults acting like monkeys to get all the kids to look at the same direction, we got some!

All of us staying in the hotel was great.  Lauren learned that she can jump on the bed in hotels!   The parks provided a great opportunity to spend the days together.  But what we most enjoyed was seeing how the cousins got to hang out and love each other!  And while we posed them for a lot of the photos..... the ones below were not posed!