Alex wants to get in on the Cinco de Mayo fun!
Matt offers Alex a bite, and Penny shows him how it's done! (Alex chickened out and decided to wait until next year, though.)
What's the best part about tacos when you're four? Putting olives on your fingers, obviously!
Penny is the most amazing sister, still. She loves to play with Alex all the time.
Alex has been pretty game about this whole 'eating' thing we keep trying to do with him. Sweet potatoes are nummy!
I love that you can see the smile in his eyes even though the spoon and sweet potatoes are hiding his mouth.
When I saw this picture, I almost cried: Penny and Ray both look so big!
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Ray is either tickling Penny by whispering in her ear, or trying to give her a kiss, I'm not sure which.
Penny is blowing bubbles for Ray to pop.
'I have to tell you a secret,' Penny said. How quickly they grow.
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Alex looks just a little bit smug for snagging the best seat in the house!
I tried this picture a zillion times. I could not get them to both look at me at the same time, and I could not get them to both smile at the same time. I guess I'll settle for two smiles and one looking at the camera!
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Penny was very passive about her exersaucer - she liked watching us play with the widgets for her. Alex, on the other hand, is a hands-on kind of guy.
Happy birthday, Ray!
Can we eat our cupcakes yet?
Penny ponders what kind of cupcake she wants.
I was going to delete this - I hit the button in the midst of rotating the camera, while Penny was pretending to be a monkey. But when I actually saw it, I liked the spinning effect.
Mmm, chocolate cake! With sprinkles!
You can't see it here, but Penny made a card for Ray all by herself, with pictures of flowers and stamps, and wrote both their names a couple of times. She didn't even ask me how to spell Ray!
Penny and Jess on the swings.
The party rained out, but Penny, Jess, and Ray managed to have fun anyway.
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Squee! Goslings! All traffic stopped so they could cross the street.
Look out, Alex! Big sister to stern!
Why oh why can I not get both kids to smile at the same time?
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Penny's hair falls to the middle of her back and has never been cut.
I'll never be able to say that again. But it looks so much nicer now!
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Penny really enjoyed getting her hair cut, though, and was amazingly un-fidgety.
Penny's new 'do' -- 'Just like Mommy!'
Penny and Heidi on the swings.
As a matter of fact, it did take me half a dozen shots or so to get this framed perfectly.
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Penny seemed to be enjoying the twisting of the swing, actually, until it went wild and she wound up scraping against the frame. Ow...
