Sugar & Spice...

Sugar and spice and everything nice,

that's what little girls are made of. Sunshine and rainbows and ribbons for hairbows,

that's what little girls are made of.

Tea parties, laces and baby doll faces,

that's what little girls are made of.

Scenes from #8

Kalli requested a barbie cake for her birthday so I tried my hand at making one. It turned out pretty cute although personally, I would have had more fun with fondant. :) Kalli is not a fondant fan though, and it was her birthday after all! I love the happy look on her face. If God enjoys making his children smile as much I do, then it is no wonder he showers us with so many blessings! This is my favorite birthday piccy...it's just so 'Kalli'

So happy to get her '8' doll!
Showing Kaite her Liv doll who has wigs to change. Later in the evening, I heard Kammy ask Kalli if she could change her earwig. (For those who may not know, an earwig is a nasty bug we have out here).

We blind-folded her and gave her all her fancy stuff!

She was very happy and surprised!

After the party, we went to the park for pictures and a 'tea party'.

I let them dress up in my dresses and each of them got a hat.

They had so much fun and were so fun to watch!

We love our girls, although I have to say I think daddy was pretty excited when he heard Kammy say that she wants a Lightning McQueen birthday and a Mater cake! :)

Tiny Talk Tuesday

I'm joining Not Before 7 for Tiny Talk Tuesday. I love hearing the things kids say and mine are always saying something to make me smile. Okay......so sometimes the things they say can make us blush as well, but we won't go there today. :)

Last night, Kammy, age 4 was trying to convince me that she NEEDED some icecream for a bed-time snack. We had already had strawberry shortcake, so I was kind of doing my thing and ignoring her pleas. She got my attention though, when she sighed real big and said, "I used to act just like you mommy......when I was 3!"

Then, this morning, I opened the refrigerator to find a straw in the cream. I guess a little someone around here likes cream huh?

Remembering...

We thought that Kalli would never get here. In fact, she was so late that I finally gave up on her. I was due during camp meeting and we would come home in the evenings and walk and walk and walk, but the minute we quit walking, the pains went away. Rick was working Saturdays at the time and when I finally did go into labor (two weeks later), I was in shock I think. I called the doctor and told him what was going on and he told me to come right in, so I called Rick and told him to come home as soon as he was done working. Then I washed my hair, mopped the floors and changed the bedding. My parents were at our house to get big-sister Kayla and Rick was in a hurry to go to the hospital and have the baby. I was in no hurry, but finally they dragged me off. newborn

As it turned out, we had time. Kalli wasn't born until 1:33am Sunday by cesearan. She met the world screaming mad. She was a BIG, beautiful baby who screamed every night for 4 hours and then slept the rest of the night through! When she was a week old, we took her to church for the first time and she looked around at everyone like she was a month old. Maybe that's because she was supposed to have been born a month earlier! :)

1 year old
Kalli is the most affectionate little girl ever! She loves to hug, cuddle and snuggle. Her daddy is always saying that Kalli's future husband needs to be warned that she is high-maintainance in the hug and affirmation department!

2 years old

She keeps us laughing with her humor. When I was going to have her little sister Kammy, Kalli would pray every night, "Momma not have a baby, momma not be sick!" When Kammy was 5 months old, I asked Kalli why she was STILL praying that. Her reply: "I just don't want it to ever happen again!"

3 years old

Kalli is the only one in our family who sleeps in. All the rest of us are morning people, but Kalli can sleep and sleep! Well, daddy probably could sleep a little longer (at least on the weekend), but someone always manages to wake him up.
4 years old

Kalli likes pretty, prissy things. She likes to dress up like a 'fancy lady' and play old-fashioned things. She has been known to wear a coffee filter on her head pretending to be Amish!

5 years old

Kalli is always on the look-out for the other person. She wants sausage pizza for her birthday, but requested a special small pepperoni pizza for her sister who does not like sausage! She loves 'old things' and yard sales. Just this last Saturday, she found some real 10 cent treasures at a yard sale!

6 years old

Kalli has always been a bit of a momma baby. She loves to go places with daddy and likes to spend the night at Grampapa's house but usually has to struggle to hold back the tears for momma.

7 years old

Excitement is running high at our house for her 8th birthday party tomorrow. On her birthday wish-list is a barbie with a wig, a fancy-lady hat and gloves, and a barbie doll cake! She is very specific about details. For instance, Grandma is supposed to bring an un-nutty pistachio salad.

The hen is happy.

Remember my 'vintage' tea towels from this post? Well, I finally got inspired and completed the project. Since my kitchen is farm-ish, I wanted them in chicken wire frames with barnwood. When they started demolishing an old farmhouse just down the road, I talked the hubby into scrounging around down there and we found some old wood that was perfect. The local farm supply store sold me a roll of chicken wire for under $5 and I drew up the plans (told the hubby what I wanted). They are all made from 'scratch' by the guy who 'rules the roost' around here. As it turned out, he had to make a new frame for the chicken picture too because the old fancy one just didn't work anymore. He's a perfectionist, so it took some time convincing him that they needed to look a bit rough. I have about 5 ft of chicken wire left...any ideas what I should do with it?