Happy 6th Birthday Rosie!

She's six years old already! She started kindergarden this fall and after Christmas switched to a full day kindergarden program where she is doing great! My Rosie is growing up!

We spent the weekend celebrating starting with a trip to a hotel that had a small water park, thanks to Grandma! We all had a blast! Rosie LOVES to swim and asks for the same thing every year for her birthday! She's a great swimmer and takes it very seriously. I'm going to have to sign her up for some lessons very soon.

She's such a sweet big sister. Here she is comforting Daisy thru a scary trip thru the carwash!

Saturday evening Grammy, and Aunt Heidi, Uncle Mark and the cousins came over to celebrate.

Here her cousin Kyle is trying very hard not to blow out her candles! He just turned 6 last month and they are best buddies.

She got a pillow pet she's been hoping for.

We ended the festivities with a tea party with the girls at a local restaurant. What a bunch of cuties!

Rosie is 5!!!!

I can hardly believe it, but my sweet little Rosemary is 5 years old! I don't know how it happened... time just keeps slipping away from me.

she has always been such a sweet...

and happy girl, not to mention just adorable!

She holds a very special place in our family,

and puts up with a lot being Lily's little sister!

but don't worry, she has Daisy to pick on!

We spent the weekend celebrating with Rosie, it was non stop action pack fun!

We got a hotel room Friday night so we could go swimming, since the poor girl always wants to go swimming for her birthday in the dead of winter.

Here she is with her BFF Ellie. Later that night her cousins came for a dip.

Here she is showing off her cupcakes in front of the puppet theater I sewed of her and the opening performance of Two Horses in Love!

Gluten free chocolate cake!

Fulfilling her dream of a tiered swan princess cake was no easy feat! Purple zig zags compliments of Lily!

Rosie invited a few friends from school over and we had quite a dance party, which included lots of running all over the house screaming.

To top it all off we decided to take the kids skiing on Sunday (Yes, we are totally insane).

Lily went once last year and loved it, this was Rosie's first attempt.

They both did great! They take after their Dad!

Needless to say it was an exhausting weekend!

Happy Birthday Rosie!

Happy Birthday Rosie!

Rosie's birthday was on Thursday and now she is 4 years old! Seems like a huge jump from 3 to 4. It makes me want to cry really, seems to me like she should still be my baby! Every one older whose been thru it tries to warn you when you have your first child about how time begins flying. But you'll never really understand until it happens to you! I am so afraid I am going to wake up one morning and they are all going to be in college. As much as I tire of the noise and the chaos that three little girls bring to this house, I can't imagine life without them. They are each a blessing, and this week we have a wonderful time celebrating the blessing that Rosie is to us!


The cake was super ooper chocolaty and Gluten Free!! You can find the recipe on the back of the Hershey's coco powder box and substitue the gluten free flour mix for the flour! It turns out very moist and no one would ever guess it's not made with wheat flour.

Here's Rosie and her cousin Kyle, can you see him? He just turned 4 a few weeks ago. They have so much fun together!


Oh, and by the way the studio is rented!! I'll let you know when we have another unit available, I think ours is next!

Rosie's first day of Preschool!

Rosie started preschool today at Grand Rapids Montessori. She was so excited and didn't really seem nervous at all! It helped that she knew a couple friends in her class already! She will be in a class of 3 and 4 year olds as well as Kindergartners. I have a lot more to learn about it, but so far I am very impressed with the Montessori philosophy of education and I feel very privileged that we have this as an option in Grand Rapids Public schools.

Rich stayed home a little later so that I could just take Rosie and not have to load up the whole crew in the van (Lily was not going to school this morning, but more on that later). Lily was very excited for her and gave her a nice send off from the porch in her favorite Monkey pajamas.


Rich is really having a hard time with the fact that yet another of our children is growing up, he really didn't want to let her go. She does seem awfully little to go to school!


We found her good friend Solomon as soon as we got there and asked him to show us the ropes since he is a big kindergardener. He took his job very seriously! They are both in Miss Tracy's class together.



She followed the line into school, only looking back once to waive and smile at me (following the line is going to take a little practice, she veered way out of it and had to run to catch up) and off she went. The house is going to be very quiet with both the girls at school. What will Daisy and I do with ourselves every morning?

When I picked Rosie up at lunch time she told me her favorite part of the day was doing her 'work'. She is so proud to be going to school and really seems to enjoy the idea that she is old enough to go off by herself. Miss Tracy said she has a great 1st day. She wanted to know why she couldn't ride the bus (there isn't busing for her) so I told her she has to ride the Mommy bus and I pretended to be a real bus driver all the way!