Monday, May 13, 2013

Birthdays!

Foster care and adoption isn't all we've been doing lately though it certainly feels that way sometimes!  Oksana turned 8 and Anya turned 6 one month apart from each other! 

Oksana absolutely loves birthdays!  Here are a few pictures of her special day:
 
She has talked about the day she would get an 8 balloon since the day she got a 7 balloon!
 
She loves her "squeezy sheet"!


 After Oksana's birthday the girls had a combined party with friends and family at a local bounce house place.
I honestly thought this would be a disaster.  I thought Anya would be totally overstimulated and overall difficult.  Instead she had the time of her life!  This girl loves to bounce and slide!

Oksana's best buddy, Gretchen!

The party girls.  The boys refused to get in the picture ;).





I feel like 90% of the pictures I took are a big blur like this one!  Everyone was in constant motion!
Then we had Anya's birthday.  She has absolutely no idea what a birthday is.  I think she pretty much  just wondered why in the world we were giving her presents and singing before we ate cupcakes!  No candles because at the bounce house she was petrified of the candle :)!
She loves anything that makes noise.

"Well I have no idea why you are giving these to me but OK!"

She loves this Elmo.  She has never even seen the show but he laughs when she tickles him and it cracks her up.  She carried him around like this non stop for the first 24 hours she had him!

CUPCAKES!  Gluten free, of course!

1 comment:

Sharon Edwards said...

Looks like they both had a lot of fun. I still can't get over how wonderful Anya looks. I was looking at a video last night of Sophia and Anya was in it and we were laughing about what a handful she seemed to be, but so cute.