Chad's Birthday

 Here are some photos from Chad's Birthday.  James helped decorate the cupcakes, can you read that it says "HAP PY BIRT HDAY DAD 32"?

 I think Daddy was impressed.

Wishing my darling husband a wonderful year.

Life is More Fun When You Dress Up

The kids have really come into their own with our dress up box.  Sometimes they will disappear into the basement, and emerge as new people.  The other night I was lucky enough to have Darth Vader and Princess Witch help me make dinner.

 The next day I got to play hide-and-go-seek with Tinkerbell.

I don't really know what the plan was here, but they were wearing underwear on their heads and May proclaimed, "We are wearing SO MANY clothes!"

 Crowns have become a must for breakfast.

The best part about dressing up is that it makes even the most frustrating situations, like complete and total "I don't want to take a nap" meltdowns, really quite entertaining and very hard to take too seriously.

First Pets!

Meet Flinky (on the left) and Freegee, the newest members of the Obermark household.  The kids have been asking for a pet for awhile now, and I originally agreed to buying a goldfish after we got back from Wisconsin.  At the pet store today there was an incredibly helpful clerk working the fish department and he changed my mind over to betas, which he assured me had a better chance of surviving and would be much less gross to upkeep.

We got a tank with a divider, and the kids are pleased that their fish have their own little apartments.  Where James and May got the names for their fish, however, is a total mystery.  (May's fish is Freegee, James has Flinky.)  Signing up for a Petco Pals card today, I realized we have crossed the line in the sand into the realm of pet owners.  Gulp.