3 Years Old

Okay, it's Anna Jane's turn.

Anna Jane turned 3 in the summer and is such a sweet, sensitive girl.

She likes to be just like her big sister. She is also a wonderful big sister and often can be found comforting and helping her little sister. AJ still enjoys Diego but also loves to watch Disney Fairies and Jake and the Neverland Pirates. She enjoys playing with Playmobil, Disney Cars and her play Kitchen. AJ is very imaginative and loves role playing. She is much more relaxed about the clothing she wears and mainly likes to be comfortable and warm. She will usually join in with her sister's school and I have little "assignments" that she does. Mostly tracing letters but she is doing very well now and her colouring in is very much improved. AJ is a very funny girl when she wants to be, often doing funny voices and faces. She also gesticulates which adds to the comic affect. She is very thoughtful of others and loves to have cuddles. AJ is shy but when comfortable is a real chatterbox. She is also our "Daddy's Girl".
Favourites -
Colour: Blue and Red
Food: Chocolate, Pizza, Fish and Chips
Activities: Gardening, Baking, Crafts
Height: 2' 10"
Shoe Size: 8

Opening her presents

Ready for the day

She Chose to spend her birthday at Amazonia, indoor rain forest

Feeding fish at the indoor Rain forest

Anna Jane our sweet and precious munchkin. You bring such joy to our lives, we are enjoying watching  your caring nature grow and develop. We pray that wherever your life walk takes you and through all the changes that will come one thing will be constant, that God is with you guiding you always. We  LOVE YOU with a never ending, never giving up, always and forever love.

5 Years Old

Since I didn't post the girls birthday or party I thought I would instead dedicate a post to each one. Since she is the first born I will start with Abby.

Abigail turned 5 in the summer and is such a girly, girl.

Loves to wear dresses, skirts. Loves glitter and sparkles. Still enjoys Dora but much more into Disney Fairies and Princesses. She enjoys playing with her Playmobil and reading anything she can get her hands on. We started home school in August and she is excelling at primary 2 level/1st Grade. She loves to be involved and help out as much as possible. She is such a good encourager and likes to make sure that everything is fair and equal for everyone. Abby is a very active 5 year old, she goes to a sports coaching class for kids called Enjoy-a-ball and seems to like basketball the most out of the sports they have tried so far. She makes friends easily and enjoys being in the company of all ages of people.
Favourites -
Colour: Red/Purple
Food: Spaghetti, Chocolate
Activities: Crafts, Baking, Colouring, Reading
Height: 3' 6"
Shoe Size: 10

Excited about her gift

Opening gifts on her birthday

She chose to go to Stirling Castle for her birthday

Dressing up in the Castle

Princess Abigail

 Abigail you are our sweet daughter and we pray that whatever life brings and whatever decisions you make you will always remain faithful to God and his path for your life. We are so proud of you and love you with a never ending, never giving up, always and forever LOVE.

Time travel

Ok, yes I know its now 2012 but there is so much from the 2nd half of 2011 that has yet to be told.....

I will try to be brief. Following Abby's birthday we had a play date with the Gaunts and were joined by the Sheets for part of the day also. it was a warm sunny day so we played at the park and had lunch in the garden, then the kids played and we ev entually got out the paddling pool. the kids had a great day which made the HUGE clean up job afterwards worth it. Of course this was the day that the vacuum cleaner decided to break down and my smaller one doesn't pick up aswell, there was grass everywhere. Thankfully we ordered a new one that came very quickly and I love it! It was a hidden blessing.

The other big part of our summer was spending about 3 weeks at mum/grannies house. The weather was nice so we had days at parks, playing in sprinklers and in the paddling pool. We took a train to Glasgow to visit David's family, the girls enjoyed the ride and all the attention that they received.

I have had this post saved as a draft for so long that I can hardly remember what else happened. To sum up the Autumn and Winter of 2011. David had been looking for a new job and got one in Edinburgh to begin in the new year, we put our house on the market. We celebrated Aleah's first birthday at the end of November, a quiet party with family.Once school had finished for the Christmas break we packed up as much as we could and headed down to mum's. We had a lovely Christmas all together as my brother and his family were moving to the USA after the new year.

Thus ends 2011, finally!