Happy Birthday Caitlin!

This week Caitlin celebrated her SEVENTH birthday!!

But the first very exciting thing that happened a day before her birthday was that she lost her third tooth. When I went to put her dollar in her little tooth fairy bag once she was asleep, I found a little note by her pillow...

Let's zoom in a little more...

She wrote, "Can I please keep my tooth" to the tooth fairy! HA! I don't know why this cracked me up so much, but it did.

On Saturday she had a few friends over for a little party. She decided (many, many months ago) that she wanted a pony theme for her party. She found a pony cake online that she really liked, and this is how our version turned out:

Opening presents. I love how close kids get to each other when there are presents being unwrapped. On her birthday:For her birthday we took her and the boys out for dinner and to Chuck Cheese. She was very determined to win as many tickets as she could so she could get some really awesome (and when I say awesome, I mean cheap) prize at the end. She ended up with lip gloss, a plastic ring and a fun dip.

Owen had a ton of fun too

We couldn't keep our eyes off of Noah for half a second, because things like this would happen if we did:

Favorite things

These are my kids' favorite things right now:Owen loves this farm puzzle. It makes noises when you place the animal in the correct spot, and now Owen is very good at making animal sounds. It is just about the cutest thing ever (well, in my opinion anyway).
Caitlin is pretty much obsessed with this book where you have to spot different things (1001 things, to be exact). I am not exaggerating when I say that there are days when she spends hours looking through this book.

(Oh, and do you want to know what my favorite thing is at the moment? Well, it is a box of Purdy's chocolates that I was given for Christmas. I must.stop.eating.purdys.chocolates.)


Hope you all have a fun New Year's Eve!!

Pumpkin patch

Since it was such a beautiful day today, I decided to take the kids to the pumpkin patch down the road. Caitlin had a great ole' time posing for pictures for me. Owen, on the other hand, did not look my way once for picture. Not a single time. He was to busy playing with all the hay in the pumpkin field. We also visited the chickens, pigs and donkeys there. I'm sure this won't be our only trip to the pumpkin patch this season, as we have a couple more farms close by that we need to check out!