And now my baby is 5!!!

And now my baby boy (cant read this yet- so I can still call him this on here!!!) turned 5 years old on May 26th!!!

He had a Burger King birthday party with several of his friends gathered around.

Below is a really gift box…yes that was a webkinz wrapped in an awesome pirate box!! Paul is crazy about Super Marios Yoshi…he wanted Yoshi everything for his birthday!! And Yoshis are hard to find.

However I did find the backpack, DS game organizer, DS case for his new DS and stuffed and plastic figure. He was thrilled.:)

Paul’s First Quilting Request

It seems the older my kids get the less they ask me to sew things for them. So when one of them ask me to sew something for them, on them, for their friend, for their class ..whatever it may be!! I jump on it!!! I am working on a quilt for Chloe right now and Camye’s new ballet bag. But Paul had never made a request yet….well he finally did and asked me to make a backpack!!! Of course, I think a backpack!!!!!!!!! What?????

Well I found this adorable backpack pattern and this was it. I let him pick out the colors for his pocket. I did do some simple quilting on the bag and the pocket!!??? That counts right:)

He kept having me take all sorts of pictures of him with his new backpack. He loves it!! He filled it right up with all sorts of things….even a dog bone, which is co-op preschool teacher showed promptly after arriving.:)

Paul ~~ as cute as ever!!

I thought this was the sweetest picture. When my mom and I went to Amish country the other day, I purchased 2 bushels of apples, one for applesauce and the other were Honeycrisp…our all time favorite apples for dried apples and to eat fresh!!

The other day I found Paul in one of the bags of appes …yelling, “Help the baby is stuck in the apples.!!!” He is soo cute and adorable!!! I love how he refers to himself as the baby at times and at other times tells me to keep it a secret!!

Trip to Pittsburgh Zoo

Last Saturday we headed to the zoo with several friends from church!! It was a lot of fun..but very HOT!! We are all a little spoiled with having such a great summer that when it got to the 90’s for one week we all were ready for Fall.

Below is a picture of the shark tunnel…it is new at the zoo this year. It is really neat!! Our new family picture was taken in the same spot.

Below is one of the few pictures I have of Chloe at the zoo. She stayed a bit ahead of us with some of her friends. That is a monkey peaking over the tree at us.


We got to see the lions at an awesome time. But this lion was growling at the crowd. It went for several minutes….very neat.

Below is a place to measure how tall you to an elephant or a giraffe. Or Ben Roethlisberger …of course…only in Pittsburgh..LOL!!

Paul and his little friend Hannah pulling him along….

I think the polar bears were the best thing to see at the zoo!! They kept swimming around and we could watch them!!! They are soo cute…behind glass walls of course!!

Camye on a camel…

Kiddy Kingdom…here Paul comes!!

Paul’s Birthday Party at Chuck E Cheese Part 2

Okay I wanted to add more pics..:):) For some reason I cant ever remember the order in which to add pictures to get the order I want. So these were supposed to be the other way around..that okay:)

Blake checking in for ticket drop off and token pick up..:)

Kids hanging out…This picture is funny to me because if Camye sees me with the camera…she stops and poses until I take the picture.>!!!
Girls being silly…

Blake forcing Paul to have his picture taken with Chuck E..for some reason Camye and Paul are scared of stuffed mice..big or small.???
Paul’s Scooby Dooby Doo cake..I let him pick his cake out:)

Paul’s Birthday at Chuck E Cheese

My baby has turned 4 ..he said at Chuck E Cheese he felt like a kid now instead of a baby. BUT my baby still crawled in bed with me last night at 2am…

Everyone had so much at Chuck E Cheese as I am sure you can see in the pics..:)
Here he is opening his presents from Grandma and Grandpa.

Always winking for the camera.:)

Daddy helping Paul ride the bike into the air..he LOVED that!:)
Paul with the only thing present he has asked for …A SWIMMING POOL!!!!
Enjoying his cake…:) A scooby doo cake..

Photo Shoot Take 1

Well many of you may know that I get my babies professionally taken when they are 3 years old right before they lose their baby looks. I have went and spent alot of money on the others at these professional studios and havent been the happiest with them. So my friends hubby is trying to start a photography business and has a little studio. He wanted to practice on my kids. He is really working hard to perfect his lighting and the props and everything. The best part is…they were free!! Everything was and he wants to use the kids on his website!! He went ahead and took pics of all of them.

This was one of the last ones taken but still my fave of the group shots.

As most of you know..Paul is a quite the ham of the family!!! He did this on his own.
This one is my fave of Pauly and may be THE 16×20 that I get.
This was the saddest face he could ever make..he said….:) LOL!
I just know this will be my moms favorite. I dont kn0w..I do love this one.
Enjoy!! I will post the other kids on another post!:)