Painted Toes and Knives

Ansley & Aida

Yeah, it is official, it is only in our capacity to make Buddha babies!  Aida is now 4 months and is keeping pace with Elijah when he was an infant.  She weighed 15lbs 12oz. (90%) and was 25.25 inches long (90%.).  While we were at the doctors I put Ellie on the scale... fortunately she still has a solid 10lbs on her sister!  Aida has taken a turn for the better these last couple of months.  Not to say that she can't be difficult, but she is a great baby, sleeps through the night and absolutely loves watching all of the activity at our house.

As hard as it is to believe, Elijah turned 5 this month and started kindergarten.  Shelly has grown to have a real love for making special cakes for the kids.  As their birthday approaches she asked them what they would like to have.  For whatever reason, Elijah's "thing" as of late are pirates, so naturally he asked for a pirate cake.  I've got to say, it turned out pretty darn well!  Well done babe!

Being that Elijah's birthday is days before the school cut off, technically he could have started public school kindergarten.  However, thinking that we will hold him back one more year we enrolled him into a kindergarten at a Christian school as his school day is half day as opposed to all day.  So far he loves it and has really been doing well.

One night of the week Shelly and I try to spend special time with one of the kids after the other two have gone to bed.  Last night we spent time with Ellie, and of course, she wanted to paint her nails!  Ellie is truly a girly-girl and loves dress up, purses, lip gloss, and painted nails.  However, it was really important to Ellie that not only mommy paint her nails, but daddy too.  What is a guy to do?  Of course I painted my nails (blue with sparkles) and it is still on!  I have no shame. :)

If it makes any different, with painted nails and all, I took down a man last night with a knife trying to attack my neighbor.

My last bit of big news... Shelly chopped her hair today!  Yep, she couldn't take it any longer.  She told me that as soon as she got back in shape from having Aida that she was going to the salon.  Well, Shelly is looking great (did she really just have a baby?) so the phone call on Friday to set up a hair appointment for today didn't surprise me at all.  The whole family gathered as her hair was chopped and donated for a wig.

Just a few more pics for fun...

We might look alike

Blue eyes

Crazy eyes and cuppy-cake