Elena Is 5!

Elena's big day was Barbie-tastic!

The Barbie banner, Barbie cake and Barbie presents

Cheesing for the camera with Mom

The Birthday Girl getting ready to blow out the Barbie candles on her Barbie cake

Wearing the Barbie crown with cousin Blake and Alex

Brian was ready to unwrap the presents

Elena with one of her many, many new Barbies

Uncle Jamie and Aunt Jill came all the way from Michigan to help celebrate the big day

Stacking up all the new Barbies

Giving Dad a birthday hug before bedtime

Sharing a pre-birthday meal with Grandma Sandy at Elena's favorite restaurant, Bob Evans

Alex Takes a Swing at Playing Baseball this Spring

Alex loved putting all the gear on to play catcher

a little backyard practice

Up at bat!

Great hit!

The twins cheering on their big brother

Alex with his Coach and trophy at the end of season ice cream party

Eating ice cream with pal Ashton

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

Mom and Elena enjoying their sweet treats

Summer Fun

The Binky Wars

The boys are only allowed to have their pacifiers or "binkys" in their cribs.  At bedtime, one of their favorite things to do is to run around their room and gather up all the binkys.  Then, they wrestle and steal binkys from each other before they are put to bed for the night.  This evening, Brian was the clear winner of the Binky War, with four binkys. Better luck tomorrow night David!

Go Yankees!

David likes to "borrow" Alex's super cool baseball cap to wear around the house.  Here he models the hat (along with a few things he managed to steal out of my purse) after a hot afternoon of watching Alex play in a big game.

T-R-O-U-B-L-E

At just 13 months, David can already open up doors.  We are in serious trouble with these over-sized boys!