double birthdays

We attended two birthday parties last weekend. The first was Madeline's (seated on her mom's lap). She was born one year and one day after Roan. She's such a sweet little girl.



Above: They got these cute animal masks in their goodie bags.



Above: I had to show this picture, but it's not so obvious now (maybe I should have cropped more) because it has the flower that several of the kids were fighting over. For some reason, Roan kept using it as a sword. You can see it tucked into his pants.


The last birthday party we went to was Roan's. I could tell that he had such a wonderful time! He told me that he did. In the above picture, he is playing with the pirate ship that he got for his birthday.



Most of the presents are still in their bags and boxes, but on Monday and Tuesday, when I was working from home with him, he kept bringing me more toys to open up. Choua and I hardly buy him toys, but I am seeing the benefit of toys--it's keeps them busy and most of then are actually learning opportunities for them. He hardly watched any TV on those two days.