Birthday Cookout

So, I have this problem where I cannot remember anything anymore.  I forget everything.  For example, I forgot that I had any of these pictures on my camera when I did my birthday post last week.  So, here we go . . . round two . . . mostly of the cute tiny ones, too . . .

I adore this picture of my boy.  This may be the picture of the summer of him!

Round-faced, blue-eyed, strawberry sweetness in one milk-mustached, dirty-faced rascal!

Oh, the cheeks!

Chatterbox hardly pauses to take a breath, so I have very few pictures of him not practicing his skills.  People ask me daily what we did to get him to talk like this.  I think we just talked to him.  There is a lot of talking in our house.  ALL of the time.  CONSTANTLY.

This reminds me:  Doesn’t his little eye look great?  The medication did not make it go all-of-the-way away, but it surely better, praise the Lord!  We will keep his meds at the current level and then start to wean him off of it at the end of the summer.  Our prayer is that Jesus will fully and completely heal William’s hemangioma without our doing any surgery.  Please join us in prayer for this!

ChEEEEEEEEEEEESE!

Summer 2011:  Posterchild.

I feel certain I could wallpaper my house in pictures of these babes and their wild expressions (and hair)!

Sister had a great time playing on the blankie on the deck her Daddy built!

Shortly thereafter “the j-birds” arrived at the party . . . red buckets and all!

Despite the fact that they’d eaten, the j-birds were interested in round 2 . . .

Please check out his eyelashes in this picture.  Incredible!

Scoping out the options . . .

Then, the party hats came out!  And, who doesn’t love a party hat?

This j-bird party-goer insisted on some pre-cake rearranging of furniture. (Thank you for the chairs, A’ Monny!)

I’m pretty sure that this picture beats my wildest dreams of what my 30th birthday would be like . . . sitting on my deck with my parents, my wonderful hubby, and my three adorable children, who are running wild and free.  It was absolutely perfect!

There was a little swimming bathing after dinner, too.

Some phone-playing time with Bumpy Fwogs

And snuggles with Daddy

What a night!  It was so sweet, such fun, and a wonderful way to ring in the big 3-0!