2, 4, 6, 8...

In the hospital I did wait,

For my baby, she was great! 

Princess Milk-Face, Squeeker Bug,

Bitty Fizzle and lots of hugs,

Slumber party and eight years old,

Not too big for Mom to hold!

Happy Birthday to the girl who made me a mommy! 

(Slumber party pictures to follow tomorrow)

C'mon PopPop!

What do you do when your Dad only takes his ski boat out on the weekends, and you work weekends?!!  And love to ski?!  I'll tell you - you shamelessly play his granddaughters against his big ole PopPop heart.  How do you do that?  I'll tell you - you make a music video for him and post it to his facebook profile so all his grandma and grandpa friends can see it and tell him how adorable his grandkids are, how lucky he is, etc. and guilt him into taking his boat out on a MONDAY afternoon!  Muahahahahaha!

Mother Ali

I was so tired this morning.  Ever since our trip to Arizona and the subsequent time change, we have been keeping late hours.  I couldn't get my old self out of bed and it sounded so quiet in the house, I tricked myself into believing that maybe the girls were still asleep...

Oh, they were not.

Mother Ali had a full scale breakfast in the works in the kitchen.  I walked in to a toddler who had used the restroom with the assistance of 2 big sisters and was now in fresh clothes seated at the table eating yogurt, toast with jam, toast with peanut butter and toast with cinnamon.  My coffee cup was presented  to me (empty, thank goodness) and I was instructed to fill it and make myself "at home".

"Don't worry Mom, I'm going to clean this all up."

Um, yeah!  I'm going to sleep in more often.

Knock, knock...

Lots of great senses of humor in this house.

Last night Joe and I couldn't sleep because we were cracking each other up retelling the girls' favorite jokes from the day before.

To my kids, anything is a joke if you begin with "knock, knock".

Ali:  "Knock, knock!"
Me: "Who's there?"
Ali:  "Banana!"
Me:  "Banana who?"
Ali:  "Banana rama hanna fanna!"
Me:  "(obligatory) hahahaha!"

Mia:  "Knock, knock!"
Joe:  "Who's there?"
Mia:  "Peanut!"
Joe:  "Peanut who?"
Mia: "Peanut butter - you want some for lunch?!"
Joe:  "ahahahahaha..!"

Eva: "Knock, knock!"
Me:  "Who's there?"
Eva:  Grins..
Me:  "hahahahah!"