Happy Birthday Faithy!

Our sweet Faith Elaina is 5 years old! She has a new love for Alice in Wonderland this year since our trip to Disneyland and some Alice books that she really loves. So her birthday request was for a tea party and Alice themed fun.  :) Here are a few pictures from her special day!


One of her favorite friends, Ms. Heather stopped by for a cup of tea in the morning because she wasn't going to be able to come for lunch later in the day. Faithy was very happy to see her!

Ms. Emily brought her a beautiful bow to wear in her hair for her tea party.  :) She LOVES it!

For her birthday lunch she requested meatballs & sweet and sour chicken because she couldn't decide...and rice and of course lots of her favorite fruits.

A table full of her favorite friends! You can't see the kids very well because they are behind the adults, and sitting closest to her and there is a table full of boys on the floor eating at the Korean table. All of the boys, except for Daddy, Mr. Ky and Mr. Nick had to sit on the floor!  She was very specific about her guest list and it included some of her favorite adult friends who were happy to attend tea for the birthday girl and even dressed up in suits and fancy dresses for the occasion!

Covering her eyes and waiting for her big present from Mommy and Daddy...

A BIG GIRL stroller for her babies that she won't outgrow anytime soon, even if she grows a foot!

She has pushed her tiny toddler size one around for the last 4 years and it was getting a little ridiculous how hunched over she was trying to push this itty bitty thing around. Since she is still so into her baby dolls we decided a new stroller that fit her would be a good gift.  

She was very happy about it and has been pushing it around the house for days now. She can't wait until the weather warms up and we can take it outside and push her babies on a walk. I was super excited to find one that said it was good for ages 5-10, and it's built like a real stroller and seems really sturdy, so it looks like it'll last awhile!

Her cake request was "Alice..with lots of flowers and some pearl candies...and a big #5 on it." :)

The time sure goes by fast...I remember so well the day she was born, it doesn't seem like it could be that long ago already! What an amazing blessing she is to us all, I can't imagine our family without or sweet Super Girl! There are too many cute ones to choose from, but here are some of my favorite Baby Faith pictures....

She loved playing dressing up from the very start and it's still her most favorite thing to do!

Owls

We did some owl pictures yesterday after looking at lots of pictures of real owls. The kids sketched them out first then did water color or crayon to color them in. I thought they turned out great! I didn't think that Faithy would actually want to do it with us, but she was very excited to do her own big owl picture. :)

January Fun

January has been a pretty relaxed month for us and we've been enjoying being at home with not many extra activities in our schedule.  Here are a few cute pics from the month that aren't about anything specific, just fun for the grandparents to see some glimpses of our days. 

Faithy sitting back and reading all by herself. :) It's just the BOB Books first readers, only 4-6 pages each, but still, I love that she enjoys getting them out and reading through them on her own sometimes.

 
Alice...I mean Faith  :) doing the big USA puzzle while the boys are sorting our wooden letters in the back.

For some reason they actually think it's fun to dump the whole box...on purpose... and reorganize them. I'm glad they do though, cause before they decided they enjoyed this, I use to hate it when I would, or one of the other kids would drop the box and all the letters would get mixed up! It would take way to much time for me to sort everything in the right places...but now they do it for fun. :)

Samuel draws people now!! He loves getting out the magnet clothes and shapes that I cut out and likes to use them on the whiteboard.

We've had so many cold, dark, gloomy days this month. One day we got a package from some dear friends that had glo sticks in them. The next day, though it was already 8am it was incredibly dark in the house still because of the snow clouds outside. We decided that was the perfect time to break them out and play with them! And it was tons of fun but I didn't get many pictures since the light was so bad.

He's getting so big. Happy :)  and sad  :(  about this.

Joy's been helping with a lot with the baking. She loves to make treats with me before our Bible study group comes over each week.

For the first time in our house we can play a game and EVERYONE can play themselves...we don't have to have any 'teams' with the littlest ones....it's bitter sweet! Samuel can totally play UNO with us now and can match the colors and numbers all by himself. It's been fun when we all play together but it's sure making me miss my babies!!!

I went to the flower market with a friend earlier in the week and I was hunting around for vases and jars to put all my flowers in. One of them was just a clear sauce jar and Joshua decided he wanted to make it pretty for me. So he layered it with masking tape to give it texture, then painted it purple. :) It turned out beautiful and perfect for my little flowers. He's such a sweet boy!

Even playing in the rice Faithy turns it into a tea party! :) She loves her little plastic party tea cups that Oma sent. :)

Desert Diorama

I always love it when the kids can all work on something together. Today we made some desert dioramas and all four of them got really into it. :) 

Here Samuel is coloring his cactus :)

And Faithy is coloring what will be the floor of her desert. :)

Joy and Joshua, hard at work on all their details...

Samuel is gluing broken toothpicks on "to make the pokes" he said, for his cactus.

Some of Joy's adorable desert creatures!

Joshua's great diorama! :)

Samuel, Faith and Mommy did one together but Faith didn't want to take a picture after we were done with it.

Joy and her adorable diorama. :)

All of them together. :) It was something fun to do one cold afternoon....but I sure wish spring would hurry up and get here!!!