Happy 5th birthday, Lucy!

Five years old . . . FIVE!!! How did this happen?? Lucy has been counting down all week for her birthday. She would tell us each day, "It's my last Thursday/Saturday/whatever day or being four!" And of course, today, she was FINALLY five!!

Our morning started out with some birthday tackles from her brothers . . .

Then Lucy went to a special breakfast with her Daddy. Michael had to leave this morning to go to Annual conference at Lake Junaluska so he was going to miss the rest of the day's fun.

Grammy had found Frozen cake decorations, so Lucy decorated her birthday cake when Grammy got home from work.

This one is random, but Alex's face just cracks me up here. . .

After her birthday dinner of chicken, green beans, and potatoes (her request), it was time for cake!

We cut the cake, but Lucy was too excited about presents to even eat her cake. She declared that cake would have to wait - it was present time!

She was so excited to get her Elsa dress . . .she has been asking for this for months!

Charlie sat and watched . . .he had Oreos for his dessert ;)

After all the present fun, Lucy had to try out her things! She was dressed to the max with her dress and her crown and shoes from the boys.

Her Frozen kingdom . . . so many Frozen toys!!

As she was going to bed, I asked if she had a good birthday. She said that it was great and that tomorrow would be her first Thursday of being five. :)

What a great year four was and I am looking forward to everything that five holds for Lucy. She amazes me constantly and even though she has her difficult moments (as all children do!), I couldn't ask for a more wonderful little girl. I am grateful for every moment God gives us with her. Happy birthday, my sweet Lucy. Mommy and Daddy are so proud of the young lady you are. We love you so much!!!

Lucy's favorites at five years old

We started this tradition last year. It's funny how so many of her favorites have stayed the same!! :) (And all her new favorites come from the movie Frozen!)

What is your favorite color? pink and purple
What is your favorite toy? Elsa Ice Castle, Elsa, Anna and Olaf dolls
What is your favorite fruit? watermelon
What is your favorite TV show? Sofia the first and Doc McStuffins
What is your favorite movie? Frozen
What is your favorite outfit? popsicle dress
What is your favorite snack? strawberries
What is your favorite book? Frozen books
Who are your best friends? Kendall, Miah, Leah, Abby, Lucy Lew
What is your favorite animal? cute puppies
What is your favorite song? Let it Go
What is your favorite holiday? Easter, because Jesus died for us (I have to admit . . .I teared up a little when she gave that answer)
What do you sleep with at night? Pig, Gabby the seahorse, bear, "huggy blanket"
What is your favorite drink? water
What is your favorite breakfast food? Bebo's (this is what we call Pecan twirls at our house)
What do you like to eat for lunch? Ham sandwich
What do you want to eat for your birthday dinner? chicken, potatoes, green beans
What do you want to be when you grow up?  A Princess :)

Hats!

At Easter time, we bought the boys and Lucy little hats out of the dollar spot at the front of Target. Alex enjoyed playing with them, but Charlie wanted nothing to do with them. Fast forward to a couple months later (now!), and both boys want to wear them all the time! :)

During morning nap time, Charlie wanted to play and wouldn't be quiet. Alex had fallen asleep so we let Charlie get up so that he wouldn't wake up his brother. Even though it meant my to do list would have to wait, it was nice to have a little play time with Charlie. Lucy informed us she was too busy playing with her Leap Pad to join us, so it was just Mommy/Charlie time. Well, what did Charlie want to play with? He wanted to wear his hat and play with his Daddy's new PS 4 remote!

Oops! I've been caught!

Daddy can't get mad because I am so cute! :)

This picture makes me do a double take . . . at first, when I looked at it, all I could see was Alex! But I promise, it's Charlie!

Charlie and I played until Alex woke up and then everyone had lunch. We played outside for a while, watched some TV and then it was afternoon nap time. So now, Alex had no interest in sleeping, but Charlie was exhausted! Now it was Alex/Mommy time! And what did Alex want to do? Play with his ball and wear the hat!! :)

And this picture - here it looks so much like Charlie, but this is really Alex!!

Alex wanted to wear Daddy's flip flops tonight. He was walking around in both, but by the time I could get the camera, he only had one left.

Lucy's 5th Birthday Party!

Even though her birthday is not until later this month, we had her party today in hopes that people would still be in town and not gone on summer vacation. If you know Lucy at all, you know that she (like most girls these days!) is OBSESSED with the movie, Frozen. So when it came time to decide what kind of party she wanted, there was no other choice!!

To drink, we served Frozen punch (it was blue!) and "Melted Snow" (water).

To eat, we had fruit kabobs, Olaf noses (carrots), Troll crackers (cheeze-its), Kristoff's Ice Cubes (blue jello squares), Chocolate Dipped snowballs (marshmallows), and cupcakes. :)

Once her friends arrived, we started off with "Pin the Nose on Olaf." Lucy says this was the funniest thing at the party. :)

Next came the pinata! We got one with the strings that you pull rather than the kind that you beat with a stick. Everyone lined up and waited to see who was going to open up the pinata!

Woohoo - Caroline got it to open!

Filling up our treat cups with candy!

Finally, it was time to eat!!!

After eating, Lucy was so excited to open her presents!! She got so many nice things from friends and family! 

After presents, everyone sat down to watch the movie Frozen!! Even Levi, who kept asking through the whole party when we were going to go outside, was excited!

Lucy, Abby, and Lucy decided to get the ice castle down and had fun playing together while they watched the movie. 

I think Lucy had a good time at her party and I was so thankful that some of her friends were able to come. She has played all afternoon with her new toys, put together puzzles, put all her new clothes away, and has talked non stop about all the different things we did today. I'm so glad she enjoyed it and even though she was a few more weeks of being four, it's so hard to believe that we have an almost five year old in our house! Where does time go?? In the car on the way home from her party, Lucy was trying to decide what kind of party she wants to have next year. Slow down, baby . . . time is moving quickly enough!! We are so blessed to call ourselves her parents and thank God every day we have with her.

Park fun

Now that it is summer time, we are slowly getting into the swing of thing by doing one of our favorite activities - going to the park! These boys love to get outdoors and run around and Lucy loves to have some kind of destination to travel to. We took the kids to City Lake Park earlier this week because we thought we would get to ride the Carousel and the train before kids start to get out of school. Sadly, the train was under going maintenance, so we didn't get to do that, but we did have fun on the carousel. Of course, there are no pictures from there, because Michael and I were busy holding boys! After that, we headed into the park.

Alex wanted to bring the ball to the park and at first, it seemed like an ok idea. However, we quickly realized that since we are still learning the art of passing the ball back and forth, that might not have been the best idea. (Also, Charlie was having an interesting hair day  .. .  I have no idea what's going on there!)

Alex won out in the end though. We couldn't get him to play with any of the playground equipment because he refused to put the ball down. I guess he was afraid he wouldn't get it back! We didn't stay too long at the playground section though, because it was just too large of an area to safely watch three little ones even with two adults! (Also, it was SO hot even thought it was only 10 AM!)

We are fortunate enough to have two local parks that we like to frequent. After dinner tonight, we decided to burn off a little energy. The boys were so cranky after their nap time and even though they have played all day, we thought it couldn't hurt to really wear them out!

Sliding is always a favorite!

They wanted to go back and forth in the tunnel over and over again. . . the also got mad when we made them stop because there was another little boy waiting to go through!

Lucy was at the park too, but unfortunately I don't have any pictures of her. She was swinging and running around and having a good time. She would have stayed later, but I promised we would come back again next week so she left without pitching a fit. I think she was also worn out after her party. Hopefully all the Flack kids will sleep all night long!