Kate's 7th "Just Dance" half sleep over birthday party

For Kate's birthday this year, we decided to have it here and with all girls.  She LOVES the game, Just Dance, so we thought the girls could play that.  She invited her girl scout troop and a few other friends and we ended up with 8 girls here Saturday night.

They all had a hamburger and fries dinner together, then sang happy birthday to Kate.  Kate still is not a fan of cake, so we had cookies and rice krispie treats.  I even put her candle in a Rice Krispie treat!

Aunt Jes and Kate helped me make these yummy cookies!

Olivia

Sophia

Alia

Zaria

Madison

Emma

Leeann

Then the girls played Just Dance

Will, Mike and I had fun watching the dance show!

Then Kate opened presents.

After presents, the girls headed back upstairs to play and then around 8:45 they ended up back downstairs and were all pretty tired.  We put on a show for them to watch until their parents came at 9:30.  I think I made the party too late, I should have ended it at 9pm.

All and all, Kate had a great time and I think her friends did too!

cousin pictures Sept 2015

I tried to get some pictures of the 5 kiddos together

I think this is the best one

Kate is 7!!!

Our baby girl is 7!!  It's hard to believe that 7 years ago I became a mommy, seems like only yesterday.  But here she is!  SEVEN!!

All her presents

this is at 6:15 AM!!  She wanted to open her presents before school

she has been waiting months for this doll!!!

Will and I had lunch with her at school

Kate helped me make rice krispie treats for her class

Kate's class

We went to Chipotle for dinner. Kids love playing thumb war with Mike

opening presents from Gram and PawPaw

Blowing out her candle

Her party will be this weekend.

Kate has turned into a little lady right in front of our eyes!  She loved to sing, dance, play with her new love for shopkins, dress up her new doll and love on her baby brother Will.  She can sing to any pop song on the radio and still loves to watch TV.  She is a super great helped with Will and had the hardest time keeping away from him when she was sick.  She is doing great at reading.  She actually improved her reading skills this summer, since I made her read every day for 20 minutes!  She loves being in First Grade.  She loves being in Daisies and playing soccer.  She just had her first dance class and her instructor is one of her instructors from her summer camps.  She is still super stubborn and has a problem with talking back, but all and all is a pretty great girl.

Will is 3 months!!

Will is 3 months old!!  He is still a really happy baby!  He also just started sticking his tongue out at us!  So cute!  He smiles a lot now and will coo and talk to us.  He is eating about every 2-3 hours during the day and about every hour at night before he goes to bed!  But he will sleep from about 8:30 pm until I wake him up at 6 am.  He is wearing 3-6 month clothes, but 6 month sleepers because he is so long!  He is wearing size 2 diapers.  He has gained a ton of rolls since he was 2 months old.  He is awake most of the day and wants to be right in the middle of all the action!