Olivia had a breakfast/pj party for her birthday. She's 6 now. I can't beleive she's so big. She had so much fun. I asked her what felt different about being 6 and she said "Well i do feel an inch taller." I learned how to make fondant just before that party, so I made her cake. I was going for rainbow zebra stripes, that was what I got.:) She was happy.

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Olivia's 6th B-day party

4th of July weekend! We kept busy. We went to a pancake breakfast at the church in the morning and saw fireworks at night. The next day we went to purina farms and played and pet the animals. Then on Saturday we went downtown to see the arch because my nephew was in town and we wanted to do something super St. Louis-ey while he was here. Then on Monday we went to the zoo, which is right next to the worlds fair pavilion, so i thought the kids may as well have a picture by that to. It was a super fun, long weekend!

Frisbee with friends

It was hot

The one and only time we'll be allowed to sit on top of the car

They got to pet lots of animals at Purina farms

Already a total boy!

Rope Swing!!! Wahoo!!

St. Louis arch

Cousin Blair running in the water with the kids!

Worlds Fair Pavilion

Butterflies

Ok so I totally forgot to post the most exciting event from our really fun and busy week. Olivia's ballet recital!! This was her second year dancing and she did such a good job. She loves it. it was fun and cute. Recital was a western theme "Renee's Roundup". It was great.

Celebrating with the boys

Friends

Ok, our next adventure for the week: a carnival! We went to this carnival two days in a row, because the first day we were there, there was a tornado warning and they closed it down. (as a side note, there was so much rain when we got home, it was like rivers of water running down our parking lot. We were safe from the storm though). So we went back the next day and the kids got to have more fun. Oscar won them each a prize and they got to go on fun rides. It was so muddy, but so fun!

Our next adventure this week was the pool opening! That was fun, of course. The kids got to go to a park too (that's where the fountains were).

We got to do lots of things this week. The kids have been sick for a couple weeks with everything from pink eye to first tooth to pneumonia. So this week was great and we got to do lots of things with the kids. We started at the farm. It was fun because we haven't been in a while, and a lot of stuff that we helped plant was up and that was cool for the kids to see.

You can see his lisp here. I love it!

The other day we were walking around the lake and Olivia asked me if i thought she would EVER get suck in a spider Web, (stuck meaning the way a fly would get stuck). I told her no and explained that it kind of feels like a strand of hair and you brush it off and you're ok. She replied, "that's interesting, I thought I would get stuck." I just thought it was funny that her sweet innocent, child like question was followed by such a grown up response as "that's interesting"