All of a sudden, Kaya has been invited to a million birthday parties. We are not sure whether we started a trend with her recent party, or if she just started actually getting invited because we invited her class to her party, or if she has just reached the age where kids invite their school friends to their parties. But her schedule is filling up. Here she is pushing her best bud Fiona on a swing at their friend Avik’s party.

Despite my nearly constant harassment of Tommy to take pictures, I have very few pictures of me and both girls, and even fewer that I actually like. But then I found this gem hiding on Tommy’s phone! (Taken at the NC Aquarium a few weeks ago)

Laney loves to stand and play, but she can only stay up for a minute or two. And she loves to stand at the stroller, but it moves forward on her and then she falls on her face. So, Kaya has devised a solution where she pushes the stroller all the way up to the couch so it doesn’t roll, then stands behind Laney and spots her. Now, if only she would feed and change her, we’d be all set.

Kaya found a bin of costumes in the garage the other night. This is how she greeted Daddy when he came home from work.

Okay one more beach picture. Then I’m done I promise. One of Kaya’s oldest and greatest friends Emerson.

I’m finally getting around to looking through the rest of our beach pictures (delayed due to the 12-day work week I just completed). I think this one takes the cake. How is it all of our children are so blonde?

Thank you Grandma Barbara (read: Baba) for watching Kaya and Laney this past long-weekend.

Kaya celebrated her third birthday this month (already covered below). A little unknown fact, on Kaya’s actual birthday, she was living with Grandma Barbara, who gave her these pajamas when she woke up. I love this picture so much, I can’t stop looking at it. (Addendum by Tracy: This picture is a duplicate from a prior post, but I too love it so much I’m leaving it up)

We took a family trip to the Maneo Acquarium, which, for some reason, has a killer exhibit with life-sized, animatronic dinosaurs that roar at you. The expression on Kaya’s face is real and is something she does all the time when she hears noises that she doesn’t like. (She has become quite noise-sensitive these days.) My facial expression is fake to match the scene, and the T-Rex is of course, real.

Laney loves the beach too!

We took the Forester up past the paved roads in the Outer Banks and went wild horse searching and…success! We found them pretty quickly, then spent the rest of the day on the beach eating Cheese Curls. Heaven.