Parties

Last Sunday we celebrated my mom's birthday.  I put together a collage with pictures from November when we were all together. I had to reprint it three times because of little things, but the final one looks great!  We also took mom to lunch on Tuesday. 

I am so grateful for my mom.  She is one of those women that was born to be a mother. She loves her kids and grand kids and would do anything for them.  She is a great example of unconditional love, obedience, self control and honesty.  Family is so important to her and she goes out of her way to be interested and involved in everything we are all doing.   Happy Birthday Mom!

Caitlyn adores my mom.  I am so grateful for their close relationship.  Everyone needs to feel loved and important, but Caitlyn seems to need extra love and reassurance.  I'm so grateful that she feels this from her grandma. 

Caitlyn has had another rough week.   She has been worrying and obsessing over things a lot.  Most of her worries and concerns seem to go back to Jen and her death.  That was and continues to be a very traumatic event for Caitlyn.  When she shares her worries and concerns with us we are usually able to help her through them.  I think sometimes it takes her a while to figure out what is bothering her.

We also celebrated Rockwell and Ataiya's birthday on Sunday.  I can't believe that Rockwell is five-years-old.  Wyatt made the cutest card for Rockwell.  I told him how to spell what he wanted to write.  I was really impressed with his handwriting.

Wyatt loves to hang with the big boys!

Rockwell had a party with his friends on Friday.  Wyatt was so excited about the party he could hardly stand it.   He was not disappointed, he had a blast!  I love these boys.  It is so fun to watch them interact and see how much they love each other.

I am so glad I stayed for the party.  I can't get over how cute these boys were.  First, Rockwell introduced every one, he did this all on his own.  After that they all played together and took turns on everything.  They took turns telling stories while the rest of them listened and they took turns saying funny things while the rest of them laughed.  It was seriously so cute! 

All of the boys loved the treasure hunt.  I had to put this picture in because while they were running for a clue Rockwell yelled, "Mateys stop, look at our flowers, okay everyone smell them."  All of the boys got down and smelled the flowers and then they ran off for the next clue.  It was so funny and a great lesson about stopping to smell the roses!

The boys were all so excited to find their treasure.  I was so glad I was able to leave the other kids home and let Wyatt have this fun afternoon.  It was so good for him.