The Kassel Family Project Life 365

Laura turned five today!  I simply can’t believe she’s five!  The time has just flown by and my tiny, little baby girl is now five.  I might get over the shock of that by the time she’s six.  As for her birthday, she said that it was a great day.  At daycare, they went to see “Planet 51” and to Dairy Queen for ice cream.  After naps, she got to have her birthday party at daycare.  They ate cupcakes and Laura got puzzles and make up for presents.  On my way home at noon today, I picked up balloons to surprise the kids.  When Laura saw the balloons, she said, “What the heck?”  Then, she ran over to her balloons (Ariel from “The Little Mermaid”) and immediately noticed her present from us.  She opened up her Belle Barbie Doll and was very excited.

After all that was done, the kids helped me stuff their birthday pinata (Don’t ask me why they had to have a pinata, but Laura insisted….I’m a pushover, so they have a pinata.).  For dinner, we ate Laura’s selected menu of pork chops, “favorite noodles”, and broccoli!  After dinner, the kids spent time playing and I read a book to them.  All in all, it was a fun day!  Now on to John’s birthday…..

Andy and I like wine.  I’m sure that’s a big surprise to all of you….  😉  We had two wine chillers, but the small six-bottle chiller stopped working.  We think it was because a plant was sitting too close to the fan on the back, causing it to overheat.  Because of that, we moved the larger 18-bottle chiller out of the corner it was in and put it where it has complete airflow surrounding it.  When Dad and Marilyn were in town a couple of weeks ago to watch our kids, they got the idea to replace the one that had stopped working.  Today, they dropped off the new one!  Thanks so much!  We really appreciate it!

Dad and Marilyn – Note that it’s only 7 pm (we got home at 5:30) and it’s already got wine in it!

Laura woke up this morning and was VERY excited.  She said, “I only have two more sleeps until my birthday!  I’ll be five!”  Yep, my little girl isn’t so little anymore.  Five years old.  I can’t believe it.  Where has the time gone?

Laura’s Kindergarten Backpack arrived today via UPS!  She picked it out all by herself from overstock.com.

According to John, we had “wapples” for breakfast!

We have a Shamrock that, at times, does really well and, other times, not so well.  It is very sensitive to any changes in light.  We thought we had the perfect spot in our house for it, but we have recently been closing the curtains every night so that the sun doesn’t heat up the house too much in the mornings.  This caused the Shamrock to essentially begin to die.  It had only one living shoot left.  About two weeks ago, Andy moved it outside on our deck because we figured we had nothing left to lose.  Let me just say, we had no idea what the sunlight on the deck would do…

This is the Shamrock today!  It even has flowers!  Who knew it could do so well?  Certainly not us!