Kites

Windy and fun.

Daisy loves Daddy

Donut nobis pacem

Critical donut mass has been achieved

Malachi loves donuts. He is rarely seen without one, sometimes two, on each arm. When he wakes up in the morning, he immediately says "Nut-nuts?" in a plaintive voice. He seems to like the green one and the purple one best, although he'll make do with other colors if he has to.

Also: he yells "DID IT!" enthusiastically when he does something by himself, or when anyone else does something he deems worthy of praise. (e.g. As I struggled to fit my sunglasses into their compartment in the car, and finally got them in, I heard "DID IT, Mommy!" from the backseat.)

Yesterday while Daisy was sleeping, Sam said, "Can you whisper, Malachi?" and Ky very quietly whispered "yesss!" Sam whispered back, "You're a good whisperer!" and Ky yelled back, "YEAAAAAH!"

Temple

I don't think I ever posted these pictures from the temple open house. It is such a beautiful temple! I love this top picture that we took the day after Daisy was born.

More Daisy

It's hard, because babies always look so much cuter in person than they do in pictures. I think the only way to see what they really look like is to look at a whole bunch of pictures and sort of piece them together in your mind.

When she's awake, she seems very alert. But she's still very, very sleepy a lot of the time.

A monkey turns four

Sebastian turned four last week (thank you, Daisy, for not arriving on that day!) and we had a good time celebrating. We made his favorite, Sebby cake (as usual), but this year we made it into monkey cupcakes. (I saw this idea somewhere online---didn't come up with it myself.)

(Abe helps out in the background)

For his present, we gave our little sprinkler fanatic this working "sprinkler system," which he can put together himself and hook up to the hose outside. (Sam figured out all the components it should include.) The boys spent about 4 hours playing with it that very afternoon. Seb was in heaven.

Happy Birthday to our favorite four-year-old! We love our Sebby!

The big brothers

I love this top picture---Abe is so proud and protective, and Daisy is smiling a little smile as she rests in his arms. All Daisy's brothers just love her. They want to hold her and kiss her little head and look at her tiny toes. Even our baby Malachi assumes a serious and protective air when he holds her.