I love our tradition of decorating the Christmas tree with Natalie’s new age. We did it this year as well, even though we didn’t have a traditional tree up.
Natalie did most of the decorating this year.
I also put them on the wreath! I can’t believe how well the wreath is holding up – I may have to turn it into a Valentine’s wreath. :)
On Monday I took more than one picture of Natalie that I liked.
And this one I like both in color and in black and white.
This is almost the same as the one I posted but a little different. And still lovely.
The day I took that picture of her eye, I was playing with my close-up filters, and I took this one of her mouth too.
This was outside at my grandma’s house on enchilada night. There are a lot of prettyish places around my grandma’s house. I keep saying I’m going to bring the kids (one kid?) over and take some pictures.
On Thursday the Js helped me wrap Natalie’s presents. I figured James wouldn’t be able to keep the contents to himself (I was right.), but Joanna and I just pretended he was crazy and making stuff up. And it worked. :)
I love the happy surprised faces!
A pretty ice skater shirt I found that made me think of my Natalie.
Another surprised face – love it!
She’d been asking me for some footie pjs (harder to find the older you get!), but I happened upon some (and even Hello Kitty – a favorite) at Wal-Mart one day. She was so excited! Sadly we have to wait for it to cool off a little before she can wear them though. Ha!
One more sweet face!
A tea set!
I’m with you James – drink it right out of the pot.
I left with James to do a Target run while the girls got to go see Frozen with some friends! Lauren and Linda, sweet friends from church, needed some kids to take to the Disney movie. Works for me! They had a great time!
That afternoon Natalie got to help me make pizza for dinner. She was SO EXCITED to help! (Side note: I know I should let them help more in the kitchen, but man, it’s hard.)
Buttering the cookie sheets:
She was very thorough, and those pizzas didn’t stick one bit!
She let Joanna help her help me. :) They did great shredding cheese.
And she loved sprinkling toppings on the pizzas.
They turned out great!
One of her many birthday calls:
I love that bow tied in the back!
We had a great, laid back day celebrating our girl!! I’m soooooo happy that all three big kids’ birthdays are on Saturdays this year. Wahoo!!
This last picture doesn’t have to do with her birthday, but I’m throwing it in here. I printed a few (ahem) pics of Natalie and Hootie this week and wrote about their adventures in Hootie’s journal. How fun that she got to have Hootie over her birthday week!
Now we just have to remember to bring her back to school on Tuesday…
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