Paris Birthday Party!

Kate and Max designed their own birthday from theme to the activities this year! Together they decided on a Paris/French theme with the following activities - Eiffel Tower Build, Macaron Decorating, French Flag Pinata, Pin the Flag on the Eiffel Tower, Keychain Scavenger Hunt, and Ice Cream Social!  OMG, it was one of the best parties to date.  The kids really know what their friends like and we filled the afternoon with lots of fun with our friends and family!

Macaron Decorating

Each kid decorated filled personalized snackie cups with their own macarons

Eiffel (or any tower) Tower Build 

Everyone worked in pairs to create their own towers with sugar wafers and icing 

Scavenger Hunt

We headed outside to collect keychains with different places and people from France 

Pinata

K&M made their own pinata and filled it themselves.  Daddy did some fancy knots to make it hang above the patio!

Pin the Flag

Ice Cream Social

Thank you for making 8 so great!

Kate and Max's Day

From sun up to sun down, Kate and Max had a day filled with love!
Birthday Breakfast

Kate and Max actually celebrate the same birthday as their teacher, so we had not one, but two celebrations at school! Pastries in the morning, ice cream in the afternoon!

A birthday feast - rotisserie chicken, grits, strawberries, and chip dip followed by Menchies (frozen yogurt) for dessert!

Kate & Max are 8!

Through the years their friendship and bond grows and strengthens.  Each others strengths and weakness push them to be be stronger more confident individuals.  Their love for one another is genuine and infectious. These two adorable little individuals have made us the parents we are today!

Newborn

2 Years

4 Years

6 Years

8 Years

Kate is 8!

Happy Birthday to our sweet, creative, loving, passionate, patient, silly, caring, intuitive, expressive beautiful little girl!  We love you to the moon and back!

Baby Girl

2 Years Old

4 Years Old

6 Years Old

8 Years Old

Max is 8!

Happy Birthday to a kind, gentle, inquisitive, innovative, outgoing, silly, curious, generous, patient, thoughtful, and focused little boy!

You make us so proud each and every day!

Baby Boy!

2 Years Old

4 Years Old

6 Years Old

8 Years Old

Serious?!?!

I feel confident Kate had fun on the courts, not sure how much serious tennis was actually played?!?!

 

On the contrast, Max was SERIOUSLY focused!

Alex is 2.5 Years Old

It is hard to believe my little man is 2.5 years old!  My sweet, cuddly, happy, talkative, energetic, outgoing, creative, imaginative, playful little boy is all boy! He loves nothing more than to play in the dirt, climb on everything, run away, say NO, tease us endlessly, pretend play, read books to us, be read to, go to the library, hug his teachers, help Mommy, play with KK, Ma, and Anna, and ride in Daddy's car!  

Alex and Anna will play endlessly upstairs or outside.  Mostly they dress up, take care of Anna's dolls (Alex is the Daddy), do project, and cook food.  

Max and Alex build stuff together with legos and magnetic tiles. Max tries to explain a lot to him and is always good at distracting him.

KK has endless patience for her little baby doll. She treats him as her own, teaching him to go potty, giving him a shower, helping him get dressed and showing him how to play with all his toys. 

His teachers say he is very affectionate and creative.  They are continuously cracking up about his silliness (uh oh)!

Alex plays hard wherever we are, whatever we are doing.  He goes with the flow and never misses a beat - always with a smile on his face.  We love our littlest lovebug!