Happy Birthday Chan!

And now Chanie is five!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  He was so excited for his birthday and even more excited that it fell on the night of family dinner at Nana's house.  First he requested potstickers and then changed to meatballs.  For cake he wanted a little of everything.  I told him that was a little much so we ended up making a dirt cake (crumbled chocolate cake, toffee bits, pudding and then gummy worms on top) that all the kids (and adults) devoured :)  He got new pajamas which was good cause he's getting so tall and skinny and outgrowing his other clothes.  He also got tons of books cause we can hardly keep up with his reading.  And then some big kid Legos, whoopie cushions, cars and other boy toys.  All in all he was a happy boy :)

Poppy and Eve just love birthdays too!  It helps that it's birthday season in our family so it seems like we're celebrating every few weeks.  They like the parties, the singing, and of course the cake and ice cream!

Happy kids!

Crazy kid!

Then not long after came Mother's Day.  We had brunch reservations that I initially thought might be a mistake with our large crowd but it ended up being an amazingly beautiful day.  The kids had fun, ate good food, and the twins actually sat in their high chairs for at least an hour.  Wowzers is right!  Actually it's even more amazing cause they were a little sick and went to the doctors office the next day only to find out they both have ear infections :(  You would hardly know except that they weren't clearing this snotty cold they had.  

Not bad, everyone's mostly looking.  Ha ha!

 Going out with these girls is always an adventure.  

Family!

Oh and I don't think I mentioned that Pops got stitches.  Classic bath tub accident and she hit her chin which scored her 3 stitches in the ER one night.  She was a trooper about it and was walking around the ER afterwards saying "he fix it, he fix it" and pointing to her chin.  

Thank goodness for cell phones and that we don't let them always play/watch on ours.  So when they started to stitch Allen just held the phone above her face and she tolerated it pretty well.

We also had some visitors from Washington a few weeks ago - the Mitchell's!  We had a lot of fun visiting with them and even went and stayed in Waikoloa for 2 weekends to get in as much time with them as possible  Esme and Natalie loved hanging out together again!  Chan loved the beach time and also learning how to ride his 2 wheel bike at the condo we stayed at.  We were in the middle of sleep training the twins in their toddler beds so they only went one of the weekends.