Kaylee has had a hard time trying to love this angry lost little boy. She is always asking us why he doesn’t like her when she just wants to love him. BUT she is doing great things. She is SUPER persistent and just doesn’t ever give up on things she wants. She wants him to be happy and love, so she just keeps hugging him and playing with him, and encouraging him. She is such a great example to me. This little boy has come such a long way, and I really think it’s mostly do to our sweet angel girl. She reminds me everyday to just breath and be patient with him. Which is challenging when I’m his favorite physical and emotional punching bag.
Kaylee wanted a science themed party. She loves math and science. "Mom we can just do some experiments and you don't even have to decorate!"
WHAT?!?! It's like she doesn't even know me.
I told her I loved the party theme, but that she would have to deal with decorations. I made a bunch of banners using periodic elements to spell everything out. She LOVED it!
Due to an unfortunate bee situation our front door was not accessible. Good times…..
And here we have the lab queen herself. She was killing me with her cuteness. She did her own "crazy busy science girl hair" by then end of the party it was a bigger hot mess. LOVED it!
Baking soda and vinegar to blow up balloons.
Some cornstarch and water for a little Non-Newtonian Fluid fun. They were t this longer than I expected. I forget how fun this stuff is.
We had TANG because it's all sciencey and stuff. Astronaut drink and all. Plus it yummy. And some super yummy (guests said so) dairy/egg free chocolate cupcakes.
And of course coke and mentos. I got baby coke bottles for each child. They all really like getting to do their own. Jon got some really fun footage on the GoPros.
I went to check on the epic disaster of cornstarch and water fun. WOW. They had fun.
Kaylee conducted the birthday song this year. I was cracking up.
Her requested beaker pinata lasted threw all the kids. Uncle Josh helped her finish it off in the end.
I LOVE this shot of Owen. Great form!
This purple dress fro Yaiyai was two years in the making. Kaylee had very specific requests in her dream purple sparkly dress in that it needed to be pretty, sparkly, but still soft and not itchy. She was beyond thrilled.
She had fun popping balloons from her friends. "I'm so rich now!" Ha!
I tell her she has an elf ear. She has and ear that has an extra cartilage ridge that form a capitol E and it's a bit pointed at the top. She has taken to working on projects in the garage and has her own mini workshop. So we got her some proper sized tool and gear. She was SO happy to have tools that are real and fit her little hands.
Later that night after everything was cleaned up I got to hold my not so little anymore girl while relaxing on the couch. She passed out and I was near tears that it was my last time holding her as a six year old. I am such a big baby. For the past six months I've been telling her to just stop growing. Her response is always the same, "I can't stop. Just talk to Jesus about it." Hard to argue with that huh?
A swarm of bee decided our house would make a nice hive. It was a nightmare. Because we don’t kill bees. BUT they were IN the house and the kids….. So I was killing them in the house to keep the kids safe. It was horrible! We call a company that has safe methods of removal without killing them. IT.DID.NOT.WORK. In fact more bees came. So we had to kill them. Because they were getting in the house!
This was so so so sad. I’m still so sad about the death of these bees. We were coming and going through the backdoor for over a week trying to figure out how to get them to leave. Sad.
