Here's our girl now only one year shy of being in the double digits!!! I guess this is how 9 year olds read...enunciating every possible syllable! It's not a birthday card, it's obviously a royal decree.
Since the girls birthdays are only 3 days apart, they got some shared presents that they opened at the same time. One of which was the following...a karate outfit!
Sela was just certain that having this on immediately advanced her up at least three belts!
Birthday number 1 of his sisters was handled like quite the gentleman.
Birthday #2...Sela Baby turns 8 (or 18) we're not sure.
Opening her present from her little brother. Books...it's a win-win for both of them!
Birthday #2 was handled with a touch less decorum.
So tied for number 1 gift in the girls mind were their walkie-talkies (or as they say, Hawkie-talkies) from cousins Cole and Jackson.
Jason and I struggled with our own decorum when the girls insisted on talking to each other through the hawkie's (as I've dubbed them) while only inches apart from each other (and us). I wish I were exaggerating.
And what other gift tied for gold in the girls minds? Roller skates from Papa and Nanna!
Baby steps.
About 2 feet in 10 minutes!
So Nanna, Aunt Jo and Baby Cole got to come for a visit, which was wonderful! Here are the boys in a bath colored with a yellow dye for kids. Just didn't want anybody to get the wrong idea about the bathwater! 
Cue music! Their mama's are singing "Ebony and Ivory" and the boys are obviously impressed! 
T just wants to get up close and personal, and Cole is certain that petting is the best way to do that! 
Cole's cousins were granted visitation durring his stint in baby prison. He loved it!
