Before Y came, we wanted to get in some one on one time with the kids.  It’s important for us to be able to spend time with the kids to catch up on their lives without a little or big demanding our attention.  I wish we did this more frequently.  But, hopefully, we can be more intentional.  They so look forward to it and when we started the date nights, they all started plotting and planning what we would do.

For some reason, we didn’t get pictures of each kid out.  But we did capture quite a few. Ace and I discovered Which Which and that was it for a majority of the kids.  They had a great promotion to decorate a bag for a soldier.  Our creation above!Bryant wanted to go to Which too, of course.  We rocked the selfie and the bag!
Malachi voted for frozen yogurt and was quite settled in his seat with his massive mound of treats.

In our immediate family we have four birthdays between the end of June to the end of July.  That’s a lot folks.  But not only that in the space of four months, counting extended family, we celebrate sixteen birthdays.  Yeah.  Big family fun!

Since we don’t get to see aunts and uncles every year, we sometimes plan to play catch up on all birthday celebrations.  June was no exception.
Josiah Emmie Ace and BryantCeili Rain and Malachi
and Ge

It was a fun filled weekend of birthday celebrations!

I love doing crafts.  Just not cleaning them up afterward.  But one day in June, I got adventurous.  We broke out the art easel we have had stored away for a long time.  Taking turns…the kids went to work.
And had a blast!  They had some pretty neat and creative pictures.  This reminds me that we need to do this more often.

Towards the end, I remembered that music is supposed to “enhance the creativity.”  That is said with the best upper class voice I can muster.  So, I grabbed my Amazon music player and found the Ukrainian Orchestra’s album.  It was really good and perfect for creating their masterpieces.

Curly Head CeiRai…She was so excited that Grandmere curled her hair.

This must have been the night we got home from the hospital.

Sometimes you just need to have a picnic.

The first time Emmie let go of me and walked away. I love that she is playing with CeiRai in thsi picture.

Splahs Pad Fun!

Everything is a phone nowadays. Even a comb.

Look Mom! Cheerios stacked together!

Look Mom! Emmie’s magnet toys hanging on for dear life.

Her first taste of oreos. She approved.

Our proof that she really did enjoy the cake!

Her broken brace…this was brace number four.

I know I’m cute…and???

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Ceili Rain loves to hit the ivories.  When she does, a part of the troublesome trio joins in. And then Emmie toddles over to play too. And sometimes Josiah takes Emmie over to pick out a tune.Then, this melts my heart.  These kids just love their baby sister and will do everything they can to make her happy.

Just because sometimes after supper, we all turn in to moose.