"If you are still in the process of raising children, be aware that the tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered about the house, the piles and piles of laundry to be tackled will disappear all too soon and that you will -- to your surprise -- miss them profoundly."

--Thomas S. Monson, 2009







Wednesday, February 2, 2011

4 Things We Love About Our 4 Year Old

Chloe is 4! We can hardly believe it! Here are 4 things we love about our 4 year old:



1. Her HUGE smile! Not only does it show that she is happy, it makes everyone around her happy too.


2. The cute things she says on a daily basis. For example, this morning after I wished her a happy birthday and told her I couldn't believe she was now 4, she said to me, "I need bigger underwear now!" Also, we love how she always calls Ben's crutches, "crunchers." She just comes up with the most adorable things.


3. Her desire to always help. She begged and begged to help me clean the bathrooms and help me do the laundry last week, and so I let her. She boasted about it for days afterwards and is always asking when we can do it again.


4. How excited she is to learn. She loves learning her letters, learning to print, learning a little reading, going to primary, looking for and highlighting scriptures. She is a little sponge who soaks it all up!


We started a little tradition in our home that the birthday girl gets to wake up to a balloon on their birthday. We got Chloe a purple heart balloon and tied it to a pink googly eyed monkey stuffie that she really wanted. She was so happy when she woke up to her surprise!






Olivia loved her surprise too...


Me with the birthday girl...


Here she is with 4 candles from the leftover of her birthday cake from over the weekend:



Blowing them out...



Happy Birthday Chloe! We all love you!



Here is Olivia having fun with the baker hat from Chloe's party. Olivia napped through the whole party practically, so she got to have her fun with it after: