Isaac turns 3

Isaac turned 3 this week!  He is such a great kid!  He expresses himself well.  He hops around a lot just happy to be part of the gang.  He likes to jump on the trampoline outside with his siblings.  He likes to be a superhero.  We had cake for him on Monday night with Grandma Lina, Grandpa Tim and Aunt Amanda since Grandma Lina had surgery the next day.  Grandma Lina made him 2 reversible superhero capes that he totally loves!  Batman and Super Why for one cape and Superman and Spiderman on the other.  They are absolutely beautiful.  Jake gave him a little lego Batman and spaceship too which he loves.  We had a great time celebrating. 

 

On Tuesday, we went out for pizza at Wenelli's near our house.  The kids had a great time.  They had a couple of arcade games that the kids really liked playing around with even though we didn't bring any quarters.

 

Erik is now 8 months.  He's a happy little dude.  He can't crawl yet, there's just too much to move.  He can sit though and play with toys or play with the kids.  His siblings really know how to make him laugh.  All of the kids have been happy babies, he is no exception, but for some reason I'm always in awe at how such a little person can be so happy.  He is such a gift and treasure and blessing in our family, as each of our kids are.  He has 6 teeth now, 4 on top and 2 on the bottom.

A couple things I want to remember

 
The 3 oldest kids have been doing portraits of each other recently.  They get out the easel that Jake made for Nick for Christmas several years ago.  They have fun being the artist and being the subject.  The first one says "portrot of littel sisster, Annelise" by Carly Voelckers.  The other one is by Annelise of Erik.  Annelise set the easel up in front of Erik who was in his exersaucer and she would draw and look and draw and look.  Both pictures really capture the moment, I think.  Great job!

This is "Uoonekns" by Annelise.  She has drawn a lot of unicorns recently.  We went to a thrift store to hunt down a few Halloween costumes.  Last year Annelise was a chicken.  At the thrift store they had a unicorn costume with wings, but she wasn't interested in that one.  This year she said that is what she wanted to be.  I explained to her that they probably wouldn't have that costume, but we could look.  If they didn't have that costume we could figure something else out later.  After searching through a lot of costumes we were able to come up with a great witch dress for Carly, a spiderman for Isaac, but no unicorns.  I was searching through some smaller costumes for Erik when, stuffed in the back, was some white and pink fur.  I pulled it out and just starting laughing out loud.  It was a white and pink unicorn with the arms as wings!  Perfect!  She was thrilled.